Underground rave Watch: Amazing illegal rave on London tube train surprises passengers Carla Sinclair

Science Vivianite may be the most goth crystal on Earth with its eerie glow and graveyard origins Popkin

History Workers routed a highway through this boulder rather than blast it Popkin

minneapolis Billy Bragg's "City of Heroes" honors the people of Minneapolis Séamus Bellamy

travel Sleep in a bubble, a library, or underground: 24 wild hotels you can actually book Popkin

science fiction A decade on, Joseph McCullough is still making gaming magic Gareth Branwyn

How the Earth's most isolated tree met its tragic end Ellsworth Toohey

Smoking toad venom helps veterans with PTSD, addiction, and depression Allan Rose Hill

law Iowa bans abortions Rob Beschizza

Funny Humans or cicadas? Forest Preserve staff hilariously act out the 17-year cicada life cycle Jennifer Sandlin

Underground Music Scene Charmie Chandler: Unearthly operatic folk music from the underground Natalie Dressed

music "PaganFolk Musick" band OMNIA: lively music, disturbing conspiracy theories Jennifer Sandlin

art A documentary about Juan Tamariz, the greatest magician alive you've never heard of Ferdinando Buscema

art Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith wins the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award Ruben Bolling

Robert Crumb Drew Friedman's limited edition tribute to comic legend Robert Crumb Mark Frauenfelder

argentina Adorable rare 'pink fairy' armadillo spotted in the wild Rusty Blazenhoff

hotels Deepest hotel in the world opens at the bottom of an abandoned Victorian mine David Pescovitz

books Tears of the Trufflepig is a head-shakingly brilliant novel about contraband animals, Mexico and a labyrinthine conspiracy Elías Villoro

prison The Drapetomania Collective in Arizona is researching conditions of imprisoned women Elías Villoro

music Animated feature Black is Beltza, Basque music, and the political art of Fermin Muguruza Elías Villoro