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The Italian village of Curon was deliberately flooded in 1950 to build a reservoir, drowning the old town under the water, and to this day the bell tower of its submerged 14th-century church still rises alone out of the lake, the only part of a village that otherwise exists only underwater.
The famous brass line at Greenwich where millions of tourists stand with one foot in each hemisphere is in the wrong place, because when the world switched to satellite positioning, true zero longitude quietly shifted about 100 metres east, leaving the historic Prime Meridian marker no longer at zero at all.
On June 8, 1985, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh manually docked with Salyut 7, which had drifted silent and powerless for nearly four months. Inside, they worked by flashlight in winter coats and fur-lined hats, restoring the station system by system while frost covered its walls and equipment—and kept the wall heaters off until it evaporated, fearing meltwater would destroy the electronics.
The stalactites in some of the world's most visited show caves are being slowly killed by the breath of the tourists who come to see them, because the carbon dioxide and moisture from millions of exhalations changes the air chemistry enough to corrode the very formations people paid to admire.
