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Squat Milada in Prague, Czech Republic
On the outskirts of Prague, a decaying mansion was home to an egalitarian project that could only come out of a socialist mindset: a cooperative art workspace and squat kingdom known as Squat...
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Scientists Are Growing New Hearts in the Shells of Old Ones
A recelluarized heart. (Photo: Bernhard Jank, M.D., Ott Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital)For decades now, there's been an image of human regeneration being a few cells dividing in a petri dish,...
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The Civilized Black Bears of Asheville, North Carolina
Last summer, Colleen Boll was doing some work around the house when she heard her dog barking from a different room. "It was an interesting kind of bark," she says, "so I looked out." Right smack in...
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America’s Real-Life Horror Movie Houses, Mapped
In unassuming neighborhoods and isolated backroads all across America there are houses with histories of bloodshed and mayhem.... at least in the movies.Whether they were the scene of grisly slasher...
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The Colombian Folk Singer Who Showed Up to His Own Funeral
Cover for an album with Domus Libri Records (Photo: Coleccion Beto Mireles/Youtube)Abel Antonio came back on the fifth day,He has come back to raise his tomb. Though this reads like the lines of a...
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Photographing the Incredible Costumes of Japan's Supernatural Festivals
Photographer Charles Fréger's new book Yokainoshima: Island of Monsters might be named after an imaginary island, but its subjects are the very real performers that dress up as spirits and ghosts for...
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The Slide Cemetery in Skagway, Alaska
On April 3, 1898, the Palm Sunday Avalanche struck the Chilkoot Trail, which lead ambitious prospectors from the Gold Rush port of Skagway to the Klondike gold fields. The catastrophe caught countless...
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The Surreal British Clone Towns Taking Over the Turkish Coast
"Selfridgez" in Hisaronu, Turkey. (Photo: Courtesy Matthew Hopkinson)Along a road that snakes down towards the sea in the ancient Turkish province of Mugla is the village of Kayakoy. Here, women sit on...
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Juche Tower in Pyongyang, North Korea
The massive Juche Tower was a birthday present from North Korea to its original Great Leader."Juche" was the ideology Comrade Kim Il-sung structured his empire around, which roughly translates to...
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Birch Creek Charcoal Kilns in Leadore, Idaho
In the late 1800s in Idaho's Lemhi Valley, a group of intrepid miners worked a lead and silver mine in the tiny town of Nicholia. To operate their smelters they needed charcoal, so they went 10 miles...
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The Extremely Strange World of Infinite Dungeon Video Games
Peter Burr spent hours trapped in a dungeon.He sat in the glow of the pixelated green and black screen of his Apple IIe, exploring the dark dangerous tunnels of an ancient tomb in the 1982 adventure...
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Royal Pavilion at Stazione Centrale in Milan, Italy
Every day over 300,000 people pass through the Stazione Centrale, Milan’s main railway station. Many of them walk in front of a series of closed doors without every wondering what is behind them. They...
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The Mother Tree in Shaamar, Mongolia
Although Buddhism is the most widespread practiced religion in Mongolia, Shamanism is alive and well. Often, the two religions blend into one, and landmarks throughout Mongolia testify to this. The Eej...
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Watch These Microscopic Organisms Feast on a Dead Worm
Ah death. Here are a few clips of a feeding frenzy occurring around a dead worm. Microorganisms included in this video: coleps ciliates, paramecium, small unknown ciliates, and a lone spirostomum. One...
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Paley Park in New York, New York
Tucked away in the heart of Midtown—only a few blocks from its sister park, Greenacre—lies the beautifully minuscule refuge that is Paley Park. Dubbed a "vest-pocket" park, it's just 4,200 sq ft., and...
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Wreckage of M/S Cabo Santa Maria in Cape Verde
On the northern part of the island of Boa Vista you'll find the wreckage of a Spanish cargo ship that ran ashore in the fall of 1968. The M/S Cabo Santa Maria was on its way to Brazil and Argentina...
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Canned Heat Suicide House in Topanga, California
Among the secluded homes of the rich and famous in Topanga Canyon stands a home left unfinished, the reason hotly debated. Officially, the structure lies on a floodplain that prevented permits from...
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In the 1960s NASA invented a new liquid called ferrofluid to be used as rocket fuel for spaceships. As this video suggests, its purpose has shifted quite fluidly into other fields.In fact, ferrofluid...
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Where the Heroes of Your Favorite Fairy Tales Live
Fairy tales and nursery rhymes are some of the most world's powerful stories. They have survived through the ages, retold and repurposed, but always leaving an impression in the memories of our...
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Grave of the Lady in Red in Lexington, Mississippi
In summer of 1969 farmhands were digging on Egypt Plantation in Cruger, Mississippi when the backhoe operator felt a crunch. Just three feet beneath the topsoil, he had hit a very, very old coffin—made...
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