World’s Strangest

It’s been two weeks since Conan’s final Tonight Show. On the off chance you’re wondering what’s become of that big empty studio, former Tonight Show blogger Aaron Bleyaert took some depressing photos on Friday and posted them on his site—here and here. The place is crying out for Ransom Riggs to give it the Strange Geographies [...]

This week, we’ll be counting down the year’s most-read mentalfloss.com stories. I know the suspense is killing you, but we’ll start with #20. 20. Strange Geographies: The Mojave Desert’s Airplane Graveyard by Ransom Riggs Out in the Mojave Desert, two hours from anywhere, you can see the silhouettes of a hundred parked jetliners. A mean-looking perimeter fence keeps [...]

One of our most popular regular features is Ransom Riggs’ “Strange Geographies.” In case you’re new to the site or weren’t able to stop by every day this summer, here’s the link to all previous installments of the series. We’re planning a nicer gallery to show these off, but in the meantime, that link will [...]

It’s been locked up since 9/11, but Ransom Riggs of mental_floss managed a visit to the Mojave Air and Spaceport and took plenty of pictures. The inactive airport is used as a parking lot for planes and also a junkyard of planes that will never be flown again. The result is a collection of photographs [...]

In case you weren’t obsessively refreshing mentalfloss.com all week, here’s what you missed: 1. Unsettling Old Photos of the “Living” Dead, by Ransom Riggs * 2. 13 Bizarre Stipulations in Wills, by Ethan Trex * 3. 11 Famous Illeists, by Scott Allen * 4. MF: Nine Women Who Inspired Beatles Songs (and one song not inspired by a woman), by Stacy Conradt * 5. [...]