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Galešnjak Island in Turanj, Croatia
Also known as “Lover’s Island”, Galešnjak Island lies a third of a mile off the coast of Turanj, Croatia. At just 164 feet wide at its widest point, this heart-shaped isle serves as a hotspot for...
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Winchester Round Table in Winchester, England
Though it has been proven to be an imitation of the legendary table around which King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table congregated, this table hanging in the Great Hall of Winchester Castle...
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Arnold's Cannibal Museum in Sweden
Arnold Wernersson's fascination with cannibals began at an early age. Stories on the radio about humans eating the flesh and organs of other humans grabbed his attention, and became the reason he would...
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A Survey of the Most Ridiculous Anti-Drowning Devices of the 1800s
Mermaids at Brighton swim behind their bathing machines in this engraving by William Heath, c. 1829. (Photo: Public Domain)Over the course of the 19th century, as seaside holidays became more popular...
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Habitat 67 in Montreal, Canada
When you go to Montreal, there’s a strange building on the waterfront that’ll catch your eye. Or maybe that’s what drew you to the city in the first place.Habitat 67 was designed by Moshe Safdie as his...
View ArticlePhilly Really Doesn't Want You to Make a Pool Out of a Dumpster
Philly likes a good party. Some people drinking beer at a block party there recently had an idea about how to improve the vibe: What if they filled a dumpster—which is usually filled with filthy...
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Old Bluffton Underwater Ghost Town in Llano County, Texas
Old Bluffton, about an hour northwest of Austin, Texas, was a pitstop on a stagecoach line in the mid-1800s. One of the first towns in the Texas Hill Country, it was home to 50 families and the land...
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Inside the Abandoned Ruins of a Ukrainian 'Palace of Culture'
A statue of workers inside the Palace of Culture Ilyich. (All Photos: Lucas Vogt)This monumental symbol of proletarian culture has fallen into disrepair in Ukraine's third largest city, Dnipropetrovsk,...
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Real-World Diagon Alley, the Original Tiki Bar, and Other Enticing New Atlas...
Soyuz 11 memorial in its original form. (Photo: vikkom0203 / CC BY-SA 3.0)Every day our community of travelers and writers unearths fascinating places from the hidden corners of the world and adds them...
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Found: Fugitive Red Panda That Spent 242 Days on the Lam
Red pandas just wanna be free. (Photo: flowermaze/CC0)Back in December, Hangzhou Zoo lost three red pandas. On a snowy day, the weight of the snow broke a tree branch, providing a route out of their...
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Connecting Black Neighborhoods to the Black Lives Matter Movement
Rally in New York in support of Baltimore. (Photo: The All-Nite Images/CC BY-SA 2.0)When Lawrence Brown, an assistant professor at Morgan State University, watched the reaction to the shooting of...
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Labyrinth at Audubon Park in New Orleans, Louisiana
In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Labyrinth at Audubon Park was laid as a meditative journey meant to symbolize and facilitate healing for the people of New Orleans.Audubon Park, a...
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It's a Mystery Who's Running One of the Oldest Multi-Player Online Fantasy Games
(All screenshots by Eric Grundhauser)Since 1996, The Realm Online been occupying its fantasy world on the edges of the mainstream internet. It’s not clear who is running it or how, but still it...
View ArticleRadical Wine Terrorists Flood French Town In Red
3️⃣ : Des milliers de litres de #vin déversés dans les rues de #Setehttps://t.co/lBjXmPixZK#WineMorning🍷⚡️ pic.twitter.com/VRDMfV88qA— Rhonéa (@RhoneaOfficiel) August 3, 2016On Tuesday night, residents...
View ArticleGame Wardens Seized A Fully-Stuffed Polar Bear From An Oklahoma Airport
Mounted polar bear found by game wardens at Jones Airport in Oklahoma https://t.co/79CkQHvnJ9 via @kjrh2hd— tom allison (@tallison46) August 5, 2016Game wardens seized an entire stuffed polar bear from...
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Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark
In 2003, the ambitious Danish chef René Redzepi opened up a restaurant on the Copenhagen waterfront called Noma. He placed it inside the Greenlandic Trading Square, a dilapidated warehouse built in...
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The Weirdest Things We’ve Done to the Olympic Torch
Runners carry the Olympic Flame from Greece to Germany during 1936's "Nazi Olympics." (Photo: German Federal Archives/CC BY-SA 3.0)This evening, Rio will kick off the 2016 Summer Games with the kind of...
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Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Given that Philadelphia is the birthplace of our nation, it's only fitting that its seat of government is one of the largest municipal buildings in the country, and even in the world — bigger even than...
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The World's Largest Telephone in Woodstock, Maine
In 1983 the last hand-cranked phone system in the United States stopped cranking, and all 431 customers of the Bryant Pond Telephone Company woke up to boring direct-dial. In the center of town there...
View ArticleCoast Guard Shows Up to Save Beached Whales, Finds Bags of Rocks Instead
Coastguards alerted to beached 'pod of whales' off Sussex coast - https://t.co/RzB0reZhnJpic.twitter.com/vDBjaPrIzy— Brighton Argus (@brightonargus) August 4, 2016Off the Sussex coast in the United...
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