Grim Fixtures

The forgotten disasters behind ordinary things. A new story every day.

Near Dayton, Ohio, there are five dams that were built without gates. Under the streets of London, there are sewers that were dug by hand after one unbearable summer. On Wall Street, the stone of one building still shows the scars of a bomb. Grim Fixtures tells the story behind one thing like that every day, in about ten minutes. It starts with the thing you can still find and works back to the disaster that left it there.