Some tourist attractions discreetly contain bodies that tourists may not even realize are there. In other cases, the remains are in the full view of the visitors, who just pass by them as if they’re another artifact. Here are ten tourist attractions filled with human remains. 10 Mount Everest Mount Everest is littered with lots of dead bodies. In fact, the north side is filled with so many bodies that it has been unofficially renamed Rainbow Ridge, after the colors of the clothes and gear of the numerous tourists and Sherpa guides who’ve perished there....

Ancient men stumbled upon fossils just like we do today, and they had to do their best to figure out what in the world they were looking at. Some would see femurs the size of a fully grown man or great rib cages that stretched out as wide as a building. There are a handful of records that give us a hint into how they made sense of these things—small glimpses into what it would have been like to stumble upon the remains of a dinosaur thousands of years ago....

See Also: 10 Animals That Surprisingly Benefit From Climate Change Still, no country better understands the dangers of pollution than China – and that’s having an effect. While other countries have been slacking in their commitment to the world’s climate pacts, China’s actually been stepping up – and is on track to becoming the world leader in combating climate change. It’s the last thing anyone ever expected. China has become our last, best hope for the environment....

And yet, it can be argued that pigeons have contributed more to the advancement of mankind than any other species of bird. Perhaps more than any other animal, period. Since the earliest times, they have been a source of food, information, and enlightenment. 10Historical Importance When you think of “domestication,” the animals that probably come to mind are cows, dogs, and chickens. However, humans have been raising pigeons for over 6,000 years....

10 Earthquake Caused The Disappearance Of The Sanxingdui Civilization Sanxingdui is an ancient Chinese civilization and settlement that flourished in the Sichuan Province of China. For thousands of years, this advanced culture was lost. It was only rediscovered in 1929 when a peasant found jade and stone artifacts while repairing a sewage ditch. The two prevailing theories about Sanxingdui’s mysterious disappearance are war and flood. However, Niannian Fan from Tsinghua University in Chengdu, China, found these theories to be “not very convincing....

SEE ALSO: 10 Historical Clowns That Helped Make Clowns Terrifying Most people see the clowns as bored pranksters who are just happy to see their work in the public eye. More worrying, though, some seem to have used this prankster craze to disguise grimmer intentions. 10‘Gags’ Wanders Green Bay, Wisconsin, With Black Balloons Nicknamed “Gags” by Green Bay locals, this mysterious clown was first reported wandering around town in the early hours of August 1, 2016....

But can the AI Apocalypse really happen? What has prompted reputable and world-renowned people like Musk and Hawking to express their concern about this hypothetical scenario? Can Hollywood films like The Terminator be right after all? Let’s find out why many credible people, even leading scientists, are concerned about the AI takeover and why it could happen very soon. 10 They’re Learning To Deceive And Cheat Lying is a universal behavior....

Sci-fi movies are a warning about the dangers of human hubris, but it’s very clear that we don’t heed this warning. This is why we continue to develop new robots and give them an increasingly terrifying arsenal of tricks. 10 Samurai Robot Arm Is Precise Enough To Split A Peapod In Half Meet Motoman MH24, an industrial robot arm built by the Yaskawa Electric Corporation. This robot may be just a single limb, but what it lacks in body parts, it makes up for in chilling precision when handling a katana....

10Cat’s Eyes Just like modern special forces and intelligences agents, timing was very important to ninjas. Although they didn’t have the stopwatches that we have today, they had something just as good—and definitely more creative. Ninja’s were trained in nekome-jutsu, which was the ability to tell time just by looking at a cat’s eye very closely. Cats have very sensitive eyes, and their pupils adjust to the changing light throughout the day....

10Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR is the only president to receive a writing credit on a motion picture, 1936’s The President’s Mystery. In the film, Henry Wilcoxon (who played Marc Antony in Cecil B. DeMille’s famously eccentric Cleopatra) stars as Jim Blake, a millionaire who disappears with all of his money and starts a new life. A longtime fan of paperback mysteries, FDR first posited the idea to his friend, Liberty Magazine editor Fulton Oursler, as follows: How could a man disappear with $5 million and not be traced?...

10 Drug Use And Drug Deaths Were Surprisingly Common While many of us think that silent Hollywood was drug-free because of antiquated ideas about drug use, drugs were actually frequently used. Wallace Reid was one of the biggest romantic stars of the silent era. He was known as “the screen’s most perfect lover” and starred in over 200 films before his death. He was a favorite of Cecil B. DeMille in the early days of his career....

This is the first date that Christmas was celebrated for certain on December 25. This is significant because Christmas is, arguably, the most widely celebrated holiday in the world. It is also a strange date to pick, since many astronomers and scientists agree that Jesus would have been born sometime during our current summer months. On this date, England adopted the Julian calendar. This is a significant event because it was the beginning of the adaptation of the calendar that would become, not only America’s standard, but the standard of the entire world, uniting us in the common way we look at time....

10Anne Heche With the title of her book Call Me Crazy, Anne Heche dares us to say what we’re all thinking. Heche is known for appearing in films such as Donnie Brasco and I Know What You Did Last Summer, but her life wasn’t always so glamorous. To mentally escape sexual abuse committed by her father when she was a child, she developed a secondary personality named Celestia. She believed Celestia was an incarnation of God, with powers such as premonition and healing....

Death suddenly became cool, and mourning a loved one became much more dramatic. This obsession with death became ingrained in the culture of the time. Objects are a part of culture in all shapes and forms, so it isn’t surprising, then, that people of the Victorian era collected items revolving around mourning and death. 10 Extravagant Wills Most young people don’t obsess over the thought of their own death, but of course, in the Victorian era, mourning was in fashion....

But there was a time when these things didn’t exist. People had to figure out other ways to do all those everyday tasks we take for granted. Things used to be a lot harder. And we don’t mean having to rewind VHS tapes before bringing them back to Blockbuster. This is going to be a lot worse than that—and a lot weirder. 10 Before Fridges, People Dropped Frogs In Milk Before refrigerators were invented, most people’s diets were very different....

Well, almost everyone. Every so often, a rogue writer comes along with big dreams and a sneaky scheme, duping critics and readers alike. And while some maintain honesty is the best policy, that certainly wasn’t the case for these 10 literary hoaxers. 10 Naked Came The Stranger Naked Came the Stranger was a novel written in 1969 by a group of reporters at Long Island Newsday. These journalists were sick of poorly written, smutty novels becoming bestsellers....

While the rest of the world saw the pomp and splendor of a great empire, the inner life of the court betrayed the intrigues, decadence, and jealousies that hounded an all-too-human king. For the most part, we are indebted to the Duc de Saint-Simon’s memoirs for this inside access into Louis XIV’s court. 10 Court Etiquette The game of currying the Sun King’s favor was played out in Versailles for all it was worth....

Here are 10 surprisingly symbolic gifts exchanged by famous people. 10 Pushinka the Puppy Who would think of using a cute little dog to gloat over a victory? Apparently, one Russian leader during the Cold War did in 1961. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had a relatively cordial relationship with President John F. Kennedy, despite the fundamental differences between their two nations. However, a gift Khrushchev sent to Kennedy hints that he was not a gracious winner when the Soviets edged ahead of the U....

10Nancy Bowen And Lila Jimerson On March 7, 1930, Clothilde Marchand answered the door of her Buffalo, New York, home and found an unfamiliar Native American woman on her doorstep. In broken English, the woman accused her of being a witch and then attacked her with a hammer. Finally, she stuffed a chloroformed-soaked rag down Clothilde’s throat. A short time later, her body was found by her 12-year-old son. Witnesses saw the killer scoping out the house and and Clothilde’s husband, the sculptor Henri Marchand, pointed the police toward one of his models, a Seneca woman named Lila Jimerson....

One of the most famous famines in history, the Great Famine, was caused by a devastating potato disease. 33% of the Irish population relied on the potato for sustenance, and the onset of the disease in 1845 triggered mass starvation that lasted until 1853. The large Catholic population was suppressed by British rule and left unable to own or lease land or hold a profession. When the blight struck, British ships prevented other nations from delivering food aid....