The Verge Historic Painting: Maslenitsa by Boris Kustodiev, 1919. This amazing painting depicts the Russian winter holiday festival just before Lent.
Interiors: Biblioteca Palafoxiana, ancient library in Ciudad de Puebla, Mexico. This beautiful library room represents one of the great intellectual repositories of Colonial Mexico.
The day the sky turned red: The Melbourne Dust Storm of 1983. For two terrifying hours, a mammoth wall of dust turned one of Australia's largest cities into a vision of Hell.
My journey with “The Martian Chronicles”: a terrible but nostalgic bit of TV science fiction. This terrible 1980 show at least gets one thing right: humanity doesn't deserve another planet to screw up like we have this one.