real estate Beautiful Vermont house for sale also includes seven creepy jail cells Clive Thompson

arizona Free festival turns 5,000-person mining town into musical maze Jennifer Sandlin

photography World's oldest UFO photo may depict something else entirely Allan Rose Hill

san francisco San Francisco "Painted Lady" gets pixelated makeover Rusty Blazenhoff

airbnb Want to stay in the Sicilian palazzo featured in The White Lotus? It's yours for $6k per night on Airbnb Mark Frauenfelder

History "Giant chainmail box" used to dry out house slowly dissolving in Scottish rain Rob Beschizza

piketty How the "global super-rich" have honeycombed London's posh neighbourhoods with sub-basements, sub-sub-basements, and sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-basements Cory Doctorow

Kids What would 'The Simpsons' house look like in different architectual styles? Andrea James

podcasts How the "separate spheres" ideology is still affecting us today David McRaney

Food Warning: At least two eels were definitely harmed during the reporting of this story Linda Rodriguez

Death, Science, Sexology: Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum Mark Dery

art The Immortal Zoo: animal bone sculptures from Jessica Joslin Mark Frauenfelder

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing