In 2020, Isaac French, 27, and his family purchased a train car that had been sitting abandoned on a neighbor’s farm in Deary, Idaho. They paid just $3,000. Train car number 306 was built in the 1900s and originally ran on the Washington Idaho & Montana Railway from 1909 until the 1950s. When the family got […]
BBC Jamil Hassan, one of the most feared men in Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime, wanted for the torture and killing of civilians, was shaking as he walked down the stairs of his apartment block. Outside, the 72-year-old climbed into a car in a small convoy with his family and a handful of security guards, just […]
Two 16th-century cannons unearthed in Arizona may be the oldest firearms ever found in the United States, new research finds. Archaeologists found the cannons while excavating a site called San Geronimo III (also known as Suya), a small town established by the Spanish more than 480 years ago. Both firearms, or weapons that use gunpowder […]
The continental United States is jam-packed with reminders of our ravenous oil appetite. Since the 1850s, there have been an estimated 3.5 million oil and gas wells drilled across the country. Many of those were abandoned after the companies running them ran out of business or otherwise ceased operating. These forgotten fossil fuel artifacts, referred […]
Despite the new weapons and mechanics that were already in the works for Episode 3many developers quoted in the documentary cite a kind of fatigue that had set in after so much time and effort focused on a single franchise. “A lot of us had been doing Half-Life for eight-plus years” designer and composer Kelly […]
Police in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned mine shaft and arrested them. Earlier this week, security forces blocked deliveries of food and water to the miners in a bid to push them out of the mine. The miners experienced “starvation and dehydration” and were forced to resurface, police say. […]
A stranded boat near Bradford Beach caught the attention of multiple passersby on their morning walks Wednesday. The abandoned boat appeared to be stuck in the sand near the rock wall between MooSa’s restaurant and McKinley Marina. No people were inside. The top of the sizeable, multilevel vessel is visible to drivers and pedestrians traveling […]
Anton Wormann, 32, moved to Japan in October 2018. Courtesy of Anton Wormann Anton Wormann, 32, has always had a passion for DIY projects and creating beautiful spaces. So, after he discovered that his neighbor’s property had been abandoned, he decided to purchase it and bring it back to life. Upon inspection, Wormann discovered that […]
What lengths would you go to for your dream house? Would you move to another country? How about remodeling the interior of a space that was never meant to be a home at all? For the Americans who invited CNBC Make It into their homes for an Unlocked tour, thinking outside the box helped them […]
