I found out something neat about three-dimensional shapes. Many strange mathematical solids are constructed by rotating the plane of a two-dimensional shape around an imaginary axis. Think of the flat holiday decorations...

Perhaps your parents or grandparents had different approaches to raising children than you are using in bringing up your own children. These weren't necessarily bad means of parenting -- but different because they refle...

Unless otherwise noted, all photos by Zeon Santos....  ...s cool as the experience itself, so for today’s Neatorama Facts, I give you an inside look at the Haunted M...  ...t Well-Known Places. Disneyland fans! See more Neatorama Facts: Neatorama Facts: Sleeping Beaut...

The 1984 film Ghostbusters starred Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, and Dan Akroyd as paranormal exterminators in New York City (later joined by Ernie Hudson). The script was written by Ramis and Akroyd. The movie was #1 for f...

Good actors can play courageous heroes -- sometimes because they have that spark of greatness within them. Here's a look at five science fiction actors who played imaginary heroes on screen, but were also real heroes on...

It's been 15 years since the first Toy Story came...  ...pretty well at the box office too. Any Far Side Neatoramanauts out there? If you've seen Toy Story, it's likely...

The 1987 film The Last Emperor was a critical and box office smash. It won 9 Oscars and profits far exceeding its $24 million budget. It’s based on a true story – the life of Pu Yi, the final emperor of Chi...

What, did you think face-stretching and skin-pierc...  ...work. Read more about foot binding in a previous Neatorama post.

July is National Ice Cream Month and it is indeed a great month to enjoy a cool scoop of your favorite flavors. If you’re looking to expand your tasting horizons to some of the stranger flavors in the ice cream ra...

Image Credit: Flickr user bound_4_freedom I miss going to the drive-in, a movie experience unlike any other yet a quickly disappearing icon of early American car culture. The differences between going to a drive-in an...