Headline: "Stardust Evidence Points to Planet Collision"
Movie Title: Armageddon II: Are you Gettin' It?
Director: Michael Bay
The Set-Up: For reasons that defy logic, Venus has jumped its orbit and is headed towards Earth. Back at the farm, scientists determine that they must detonate the rogue planet before it obliterates the motherland. So NASA turns to a grizzled, retired explosives expert (the best in the world, natch) for an assist. One catch: They must first find a way to pry him away from The Bottle and rekindle the curmudgeon's will to live. Perhaps a visit from his saintly kindergarten-teacher ex-wife will do the trick?

Headline: "U.K. experts say Stonehenge a place of healing"
Movie Title: How to Get to 11—The Nigel Tufnel Chronicles, Vol. 1
Director: Akiva Schaffer
The Set-Up: It's 1973. Having recorded five albums with his band Spinal Tap, guitarist Nigel Tufnel is in a creative funk. Seeking spiritual inspiration, he makes a pilgrimage to Stonehenge, "where a man's a man and the children dance to the Pipes of Pan."* He soon lands in a hospital after contracting a VD from this chance encounter with a Tap groupie who happened to be part of his tour group. (Hey, she looked clean.) And it is there, hopped up on antibiotics and whatnot, that Tufnel starts writing Spinal Tap's no-so-seminal album 1974's Intravenous de Milo.

*Note: The track "Stonehenge" ended up appearing on the band's 1975 release, The Sun Never Sweats.

Headline: "Scientists demonstrate how to make a hidden portal"
Title: The Being John Malkovich Prequel (working title)
Director: John Grisham, in his directorial debut
The Set-Up: Before the employees of LesterCorp got wind of the portal, an oblivious John Malkovich was making troubling career decisions, like starring in Mary Reilly or Con Air or The Man in the Iron Mask. You see, for a brief period of time, his consciousness was inhabited by a schizophrenic. Trapped in the eccentric actor's consciousness by a mad scientist, the mental patient is ruled missing until a perseverant psychiatrist tracks him. A lost cause? Hardly. Ignoring her skeptical colleagues, she embarks on an interdimensional adventure to liberate her fragile patient from the mind of Malkovich, all the while giving him hope with her tough-love maternal instincts.

Though it's not clear what drew visitors through the ages, anthropologists now believe that the many pools in the area were believed to have healing powers. So it was a cross between a hospital, a place of worship, and (after the large rocks were added) a scientific observatory for tracking seasons. Even more intriguing is the idea that people did not come for the giant, tall stones set there — those stones, though familiar to us now, are actually quite recent. In fact the real draw were the smallish "bluestones," dark blue rocks full of sparkling bits of quartz, which were dragged to the area from South Wales, 150 miles away. [via UK Guardian]

This photo by JWoodPhoto shows Fridgehenge in winter, looking very mysterious and pagan.

In Nebraska, United States, you can also find Carhenge, photographed here by Whisperawish. There are apparently other Carhenges, including one made entirely of Cadillacs, but this one in Nebraska is the classic:

Here's another view of Carhenge, by Alachance.

And then there's Boathenge, in Missouri, United States. In this photo by Debunix, you can see that Boathenge is clearly influenced by Carhenge — the boats are half-buried in the ground.

Of course, in San Francisco, California, we have Doorhenge, as you can see in this gorgeous shot by Grimages.

Mostly, the dig will allow researchers to get more rock fragments that they hope to carbon date. According to the Independent:

The two-week project will try to establish the precise dating of the "Double Bluestone Circle", the first stone structure to have been erected at the site thousands of years ago . . . "The bluestones hold the key to understanding the purpose and meaning of Stonehenge," said Dr Simon Thurley, the chief executive of English Heritage. "Their arrival marked a turningpoint in the history of Stonehenge, changing the site from being a fairly standard formative henge with timber structures and occasional use for burial, to the complex stone structure whose remains dominate the site today."

The bluestones are natural columns of white-spotted dolerite, found only in the Carn Menyn region of the Preseli Hills, in north Pembrokeshire, and it was from there, about 4,500 years ago, that Stonehenge's neolithic builders brought 80 of the stones the 160-mile journey from south-west Wales to Salisbury Plain. The reasons why they did so, archaeologists argue, hold the key to Stonehenge's existence.

Researchers now also believe that Stonehenge may have been a popular destination among Romans as well as local tribes. Again from the Independent:

A classical legend associated with the Greek Oracle of Delphi may also be relevant to Stonehenge's past. The legend states that the oracle at Delphi functioned for only part of the year because, for three months around the winter solstice, the site's oracular deity (the sun god Apollo) went to the "land of the hyperboreans" (literally "the land of the people beyond the north wind!"), which is generally believed to be Britain. Significantly, Stonehenge is aligned with the winter as well as the summer solstice.

The Secret of Stonehenge [Independent]