hidden treasures A lucky woman found free sofas on Craigslist, only to find $36,000 inside a cushion Carla Sinclair

chiang mai 500-year-old Buddhist pagoda in Thailand collapses after rain, revealing hidden treasures (video) Carla Sinclair

video essays The unexpected pleasure of finding Voir Andrew Yi

useful stuff The Imp Bottle horror Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Warring UFOs and warring Royals in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

new york city Instagram account shows where to find the cool curbside treasures that New Yorkers are giving away David Pescovitz

Science Rats' nests are rich with unrecorded history and urgent scientific data David Pescovitz

egypt Looted ancient Egyptian coffin to finally be returned to Egypt Xeni Jardin

Boing Boing Gadgets An easy way to transfer old VHS and DVD video to digital Boing Boing's Shop

Copyfight Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years! Cory Doctorow

photography A modern mudlarker finds treasures washed up on the River Thames banks David Pescovitz

History Treasures continue to be unearthed this summer in Pompeii Andrea James

museum Sanitation worker creates eclectic museum from salvaged trash Andrea James

media "World's toughest duck" has died, and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

family There's a new version of The Little Prince pop-up book Wink

Science How scientists trick themselves (and how they can prevent it) Cory Doctorow

Nature The new life of dead trees Dani Tinker

mysteries The quest to find 12 hidden treasures from a 1982 treasure hunt book James Renner

Finding Hidden Treasures in Los Angeles Mark Frauenfelder

art Graffiti Hunters April Kilcrease