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The Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World (Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Μείζονος Ελληνισμού) is a comprehensive Greek-language digital encyclopedia documenting the history and culture of Greek civilization across time and geography. It spans multiple volumes covering Asia Minor, the Black Sea coast, Constantinople, the Aegean archipelago, and Boeotia, and includes a historical atlas, genealogy records, and oral histories from Greek refugees.

John Deitz's personal site centers on family history and genealogy, with a substantial volume dedicated to the Brookhaven/South Haven Hamlets of Long Island including local history, censuses, and cemetery surveys. The site also branches into motorcycling travel logs, a film collection, and recipes, but the genealogy and hometown history sections are clearly the largest and most developed.

The Davistown Museum in Liberty, Maine is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the hand tools of New England's maritime and early industrial culture, with two physical locations and an extensive online presence. Visitors can explore annotated tool inventories, photo tours, unpublished essays, museum publications, bibliographies, and a Maine Artists Guild Gallery showcasing contemporary Maine art.

Stone Pages is a comprehensive web guide to megalithic Europe, created by Paola Arosio and Diego Meozzi over 32 years of personally visiting and photographing 529 prehistoric archaeological sites across England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales. With 7,763 webpages covering stone circles, dolmens, standing stones, barrows, hillforts, and more, it is one of the oldest and most thorough online references for European prehistory, complete with news, tours, a glossary, and a podcast.

Peter Higginbotham's exhaustive reference site chronicles the history of the British workhouse system, covering Poor Laws from 1601 through the end of the workhouse era with detailed entries on hundreds of individual Poor Law Unions across England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Visitors will find full texts of historic legislation, location guides, photographs, records of workhouse life, and deeply researched articles on topics ranging from bastardy laws to oakum picking.

The Library of Dead and Abandoned Malls is a growing archive dedicated to documenting shuttered and abandoned shopping malls across the United States, organized by state. Built with clear old-web charm, the site offers a fascinating snapshot of retail decline in America and promises to expand its coverage as more malls are catalogued.

InThe00s was a long-running messageboard community born on amiright.com around 1998, and this site preserves its archived posts following the board's shutdown in February 2025. A valuable snapshot of early 2000s internet community culture, the archive lets visitors revisit the conversations and discussions that defined the forum over its many years.

EffigiesAndBrasses.com is a vast image database cataloguing over 6,400 medieval monumental tombs, including effigies, brasses, incised slabs, and half-reliefs from 23 European countries spanning the 12th to 15th centuries. With nearly 3,500 monuments indexed and organized by searchable tags and sources, this is an exceptional reference for researchers and enthusiasts of medieval history, heraldry, and funerary art.

A digitized reproduction of the Ciba Review No. 1 from September 1937, dedicated to the history of medieval dyeing, dyers' guilds, and textile craftsmanship in the Middle Ages. The site is part of the larger elizabethancostume.net archive and covers topics like guild organization, the medieval love of color, and historical dye sources with period illustrations.

The Museum of Hoaxes, created by Alex Boese, is a sprawling archive dedicated to exploring deceptions, pranks, and misinformation throughout human history from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Visitors can browse hoax photos, dive into the complete April Fool's Day archive, and read blog posts debunking viral images and bizarre historical cons.