Nine divisions
The taxonomy is deliberately broad. A curiosity rarely sits in only one place, so categories are a way in rather than a cage.
Places
Locations that reward a second look: overlooked landscapes, improbable settlements, and sites whose stories outstrip their fame.
History
Episodes from the record that complicate the version most of us were taught.
Nature
Organisms, ecosystems and geological processes that behave in ways that still surprise the people who study them.
Science
Findings, instruments and unresolved questions, reported with the uncertainty intact.
Culture
Language, ritual, craft and belief — the practices that reveal how differently a life can be organised.
Architecture
Buildings and structures that solve a problem, encode an idea, or refuse to make sense.
People
Individuals whose work or lives were remarkable and are largely unrecorded outside specialist literature.
Objects
Single artefacts — made, found or inherited — that carry more history than their size suggests.
Phenomena
Recurring events and effects, natural and human, that are documented but rarely explained well.