Jesse Singer articles

An all-inclusive vacation is supposed to mean leaving your wallet—and your worries—behind. But while your friends were enjoying dinner, you were wondering what you could actually eat. Now you want some of your money back. Fair enough? One detail could change who should pay.

King Tut’s tomb gave the world enough gold to make it seem like the discovery of a lifetime. But what if the most important part was never opened? More than a century later, researchers are looking at its walls—and wondering what everyone might have missed.

Back in the 70s, these were the places boomers couldn’t wait to visit. Some families went back every single summer. Now, good luck booking that same vacation. What happened to the getaways we thought we’d always love? How many did your family visit—and would you still go back?

George Mallory disappeared near the top of Everest, leaving behind a family and a question people couldn’t stop asking. Seventy-five years later, climbers finally found him. You might think that would have settled things. But what they found, and what they didn’t, only made the story harder to explain.

Most of us know what belongs on a hamburger. At least, we think we do. Across America, regional burger traditions and familiar local ingredients have produced some combinations you probably wouldn’t think to order. Some go on top. One even goes inside. Which ones would you eat, and which ones would you avoid?

If Jesus came to save humanity, where would that leave anyone living on another world? This is a legitimate question for religious leaders and one that the Vatican has actually spent time thinking about. However, the answers they've come up with might not be what you expect.

When hikers found a body in the Alps in 1991, nobody expected it to become one of the world’s most famous archaeological discoveries. Scientists eventually worked out how old he was. But ten years passed before they spotted the detail that changed his story completely.

In 1934, Everett Ruess headed into the Utah wilderness...He never came back. For decades, people searched for him, argued about the clues, and wondered what everyone had missed. Then, in 2009, scientists announced a discovery that seemed to finally answer the biggest question of all.

You could travel the entire world looking for these. But unless you eventually reach the United States, you’re going home empty-handed. Some are famous. Others are so strange that even most Americans have no idea they exist.