(Photo via Afflictor)Camels existed in the Americas until about 10,000 years ago, when they were most likely hunted to extinction. The New World was then camel-less until 1856, when the US Army imported dromedary (one-hu...

(Mural by Allyn Cox, U.S. Department of State)Two hundred years ago, the United States was locked in a bitter struggle against the British Empire known as the War of 1812. For the new republic, the stakes were profoundly...

(Photo: Mac Dor)This is the Levanter Cloud, an unusual and beautiful cloud formation that appears on Gibraltar. That promontory rises high into the air before the Levanter, a wind that blows west out of the Mediterranean...

(Photo: Nicholas Jones)And you would, too, if your local temperatures regularly rose to 125ºF!Coober Pedy is a mining town in Australia. If it weren't for the huge opal reserves here, no one would live in this hells...

(Photo: Yellow.Cat)This is the Tower of Hercules near La Coruña, Spain--the northwestern tip of the Iberian peninsula. It may be the only ancient lighthouse still in use. It's possible that a Phoenician work prece...

Pictured above is the border between the United St...  ...de by people with limited knowledge of the actual geography and, by modern standards, inadequate surveying eq...

(Photo: US Department of Defense)John J. Pershing (1860-1948) was one of America’s greatest military leaders. He began in humble conditions in Missouri. Pershing was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1886 after gradu...

(Maps: Google Maps)This is Machias Seal Island, a...  ...the best that they could with their knowledge of geography . But, alas, one of the descriptions for the borde...

(Image: wheatley_cereal)There's a natural spring in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming that flows in 2 directions. One ultimately connects to the Mississippi River, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico. The other connec...

This isn't photoshopped! You can see it for yourself on Google Maps. Redditor BobinMinn uncovered this treasure. According to another redditor, satellite images indicate that this little Minnesota has been around since a...