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Just another day in Hawaiian conservation. | Continue reading
A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town. | Continue reading
Traces from the ancient past are hidden in photographs from the Cold War. | Continue reading
The bill was supposed to feature explorer William Clark instead. | Continue reading
Call it the Genghis Khan of macadamias. | Continue reading
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Renaissance paintings can hide botanical secrets. | Continue reading
In the Adjara region, locals top a boat-shaped version with a raw egg and butter. | Continue reading
William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision. | Continue reading
Book waste can be beautiful. | Continue reading
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This theme park opts for rocket launchers over rollercoasters. | Continue reading
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"Bogus Cinderellas" can come from micronations, outer space, or parallel dimensions. | Continue reading
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They’re fake, but they can be spectacular (and hazardous). | Continue reading
Experts are flashing a warning for the future. | Continue reading
Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the '60s and '70s playing god to thousands of rodents. | Continue reading
To survive the arena, they ate a mash of barley and beans. | Continue reading
Years of drought have left them tragically empty. | Continue reading
America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam. | Continue reading
The mysterious phenomenon resembles green sand dunes in the sky. | Continue reading
The Inquisition persecuted women who used cacao to entice lovers and spurn enemies. | Continue reading
They burned real fuel and caused real damage. | Continue reading
In German cities, it means alerts, traffic, evacuations, and at least a little anxiety. | Continue reading
Appearing like trenches dragged into the earth, sunken lanes, also called hollow-ways or holloways, are centuries-old thoroughfares worn down by the traffic... | Continue reading
Residents of Celles in France were evicted so their village could be flooded. Then, it wasn't. | Continue reading
These particularly resplendent rodents are the state animal of Maharashtra. | Continue reading
The toothy, parasitic worms are invaluable in post-surgical wards. | Continue reading
Tucked away in the Leiden city hall are a group of works by famed artist MC Escher. | Continue reading
They are especially unusual in Japanese. | Continue reading
Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected. | Continue reading
What they actually smell like seems to be in the nose of the beholder. | Continue reading
“They’re nature’s hilarious accidents." | Continue reading
The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown. | Continue reading
Japanese design meets produce. | Continue reading
Just ink and colored pencil, it took Anton Thomas almost five years. | Continue reading
Anarchic, organic, surreal, this enclave was once among the most densely populated places on Earth. | Continue reading
Imagine a calendar that is the same every year—sort of. | Continue reading
From the sweet to the offbeat. | Continue reading
This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day. | Continue reading
Desperate bottle-makers turning to a new fuel resulted in a sparkling innovation. | Continue reading