• Online Shopping in the 1950s https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/01/14/online-shopping-in-the-1950s/ 12 comments 21/2/2024
• Paris’s missing palace and the making of the Louvre https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/09/02/pariss-missing-palace-and-the-making-of-the-louvre/ 15 comments 4/9/2022
• Ode to the Ice Man https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/07/23/ode-to-the-ice-man/ 5 comments 27/7/2021
• An abandoned seaside town in Cyprus is about to reopen https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/07/29/seaside-ghost-town-the-abandoned-millionaires-resort/ 60 comments 30/7/2020
• Remember When You Could Mail Order an Entire House in a Giant DIY Kit? http://www.messynessychic.com/2018/01/17/remember-when-you-could-mail-order-an-entire-house-in-a-giant-dit-kit/ 2 comments 17/1/2018
• The Radium Girls http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/07/02/the-radium-girls-and-the-generation-that-brushed-its-teeth-with-radioactive-toothepaste/ 5 comments 6/8/2017
• The Fake Townhouses Hiding Mystery Underground Portals http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/01/29/the-fake-townhouses-hiding-mystery-underground-portals/ 19 comments 18/7/2016
• Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Became the Barbie Doll http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/01/29/meet-lilli-the-high-end-german-call-girl-who-became-americas-iconic-barbie-doll/ 65 comments 30/1/2016
• Online Shopping in the 1950s http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/01/14/online-shopping-in-the-1950s/ 21 comments 14/1/2016
• How Did Michelin Become the World’s Authority on Restaurants? http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/03/18/so-how-did-a-company-selling-rubber-tyres-become-the-worlds-authority-on-restaurants/ 38 comments 24/11/2015
• The Real-Life Waterworld Project http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/07/26/the-real-life-waterworld-project/ 2 comments 23/9/2013

• A Brief Compendium of Vintage Opium Underworlds https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/04/14/a-brief-compendium-of-vintage-opium-underworlds/ 11 comments 18/4/2023 history
• An Ode to the Card Catalog https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/05/25/an-ode-to-the-card-catalog/ 35 comments 11/6/2022 books
• Where the Statues of Paris were sent to Die - How Nazis occupying Paris destroyed and melted down statues representing: democracy, liberal policies, progression, the avant-garde and generally anything that might have offended the Germans, was deemed “ugly” and radical. https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/01/07/where-the-statues-of-paris-were-sent-to-die/ 20 comments 13/6/2021 history
• There might be a Secret Painting Hiding in that Old Book of Yours https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/11/05/there-might-be-a-secret-painting-hiding-in-that-old-book-of-yours/ 6 comments 8/11/2019 books
• A French Chateau Hoarding the World's Largest Private Collection of Fighter Jets https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/08/16/a-french-chateau-hoarding-the-worlds-largest-private-collection-of-fighter-jets/ 4 comments 28/8/2019 worldnews
• A French Chateau Hoarding the World's Largest Private Collection of Fighter Jets https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/08/16/a-french-chateau-hoarding-the-worlds-largest-private-collection-of-fighter-jets 3 comments 27/8/2019 europe
• The French Town on the Edge of a Giant Hole https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/06/11/the-french-town-on-the-edge-of-a-giant-hole/ 8 comments 20/6/2019 europe
• (1951) Libarians saving water-logged books https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/11/12/the-book-rescuers/ 54 comments 7/5/2019 books
• American Photographer visits 1960s Romania in the Most Communist Photo Story Ever http://www.messynessychic.com/2017/06/15/american-photographer-visits-1960s-rumania-in-the-most-communist-photo-story-ever/ 60 comments 19/7/2017 europe
• Welcome to one of the Last Cinema Prop Houses in Paris http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/12/06/welcome-to-one-of-the-last-cinema-prop-houses-in-paris/ 5 comments 7/12/2016 europe
• 10 Inspiring Bookshops around the World http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/08/28/10-inspiring-bookshops-around-the-world 9 comments 17/3/2016 books
• This Nazi cult tried to open its colony to...tourism? http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/02/18/the-reformed-nazi-cult-trying-to-open-its-colony-to-tourism/ 11 comments 6/3/2016 history
• In 1865, the Steamboat Arabia sunk in the Missouri River. In the 1980s, it was rediscovered 45 feet beneath a Kansas field. Much of its 200 tons of cargo was found to be in excellent condition with some of the food still edible. http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/12/01/what-was-found-and-still-edible-inside-a-150-year-old-sunken-steamboat/ 511 comments 1/2/2016 history
• The Swedish Subculture Hoarding More 1950s American Cars than the USA http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/10/07/the-swedish-subculture-hoarding-more-1950s-american-cars-than-the-usa/ 5 comments 9/10/2015 europe
• Before the Eurostar: Remains of the Flying Rail Plane that Never Was http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/05/22/before-the-eurostar-remains-of-the-flying-rail-plane-that-never-was/ 5 comments 23/6/2015 history
• The Lost Desert Libraries of Chinguetti, Mauritania http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/05/14/the-lost-desert-libraries-of-chinguetti/ 3 comments 16/5/2014 books
• Ritratti da Ellis Island, tra i quali molti italiani (x-post da /r/history) http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/02/18/almost-in-america-portraits-from-ellis-island/ 7 comments 19/2/2014 italy
• Almost in America: Portraits from Ellis Island http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/02/18/almost-in-america-portraits-from-ellis-island/ 20 comments 18/2/2014 history
• 10 Inspiring Bookshops around the World http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/08/28/10-inspiring-bookshops-around-the-world/ 3 comments 19/1/2014 books
• 15 forgotten things found inside books http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/11/21/15-forgotten-things-found-inside-books/ 6 comments 25/11/2013 books
• Meet the Coolest Mayor in the World http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/11/28/meet-the-coolest-mayor-in-the-world/ 3 comments 30/10/2013 worldnews
• The Luxury Hotel with a Secret Cold War Bunker built for Congress http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/09/the-luxury-hotel-with-a-secret-cold-war-bunker-built-for-congress/ 14 comments 8/10/2013 history
• The 1970s Cold War Era Home built 26 Feet Underground http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/09/05/the-1970s-cold-war-era-home-built-26-feet-underground/ 4 comments 5/9/2013 technology
• "In the Midst of a Warzone there’s an Afghani Skateboarding School for Girls" http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/11/27/in-the-midst-of-a-warzone-there-is-an-afghani-skateboarding-school-for-girls/ 9 comments 11/5/2013 worldnews
• Historic Paris suburb left to rot http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/09/18/the-suburban-paris-ghost-town/ 16 comments 27/3/2013 history
• Good news: The number of independent bookstores in the U.S. is growing http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/03/21/a-novel-trend-independent-bookstores-on-the-rise/ 15 comments 21/3/2013 books
• The Nazi Bunker sitting under a Paris Train Station http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/02/13/the-nazi-bunker-sitting-under-a-paris-train-station/ 14 comments 14/2/2013 history
• 30 years ago, you could buy a Lifetime, Unlimited First-class Travel pass with American Airlines. Now they’re Regretting it. http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/08/17/30-years-ago-you-could-buy-a-lifetime-unlimited-first-class-travel-pass-with-american-airlines-now-theyre-regretting-it/ 33 comments 22/12/2012 law
• "The Paris Time Capsule Apartment": apartment closed up seventy years ago rediscovered, to fascinating effect http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/05/09/the-paris-time-capsule-apartment/ 12 comments 10/6/2012 history