Miners once lived and worked in Humberstone saltpeter works. Now it's a ghost town and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photos ...

Just an hour west of Saint Louis, you can find one of the US's grandest cave systems - and a former hideout of the infamous Jesse James.

About 1,200 years ago, the Chinese set fire to bamboo tubes filled with gunpowder – and ever since, fireworks have been used ...

Apart blue, green, red and yellow, any other fireworks color can be obtained by a mineral mix. For example, purple can be ...

Laguna San Rafael is at Aysén. 12- The Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works The Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are in the desert of Pampa, one of the driest deserts on earth. The ...

Craft your own rug and learn sheepskin processing and how to tan a sheepskin at home for handmade DIY décor or gifts. As readers of More About Milk Sheep may recall, we keep a small flock of ...

The key to salting meat is the process of diffusion: the tendency for substances to disperse through another substance until equilibrium is reached. From the hills of Italy to the Spanish plains ...

A great sportsman and known worldwide for his prêt-à-porter fashion multinational, Isak Andic was undertaking a hike in the famous saltpeter caves that he had done on other occasions when he ...