The catacombs beneath the Hagia Sophia

If you venture down into the lightless depths beneath the Hagia Sophia, you're sure of a big surprise.

The 800-year old submerged graves containing the remains of "canonized children."? You betcha.

Imagine being a canonized child's mum.

"Jimmy? You may be the patron saint of miners and bullfighters, but if you don't stop playing in that mud and come in straight away..."

(Unearthed on the mighty BLDG BLOG)

Catatumbo Lightning

This is a mental, mental phenomenon, and why we've never seen Nicholas Cage punching some guys at the top of a crane while this is going on in the background in some movie or other, I'll never know. Unless it actually does happen, in which case I will know.

Kryptos

This is totally the kind of thing that gives Dan Brown a half-lobster.

It's a big sculpture in the grounds of the CIA headquarters at Langley, and it contins a code that's never been fully broken. The bits that have been broken reveal mysterious fragments of conversations, some famous and others not-so-famous.

(Link to Wikipedia, although I probably originally learned about it from Darkroastedblend).

Turns out Dan Brown really does love it, so much so that he's put it (oh-so-inevitably) in his new book, "The Quest for more Movie Rights", or whatever.