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Hutt Lagoon in Gregory, Australia
Hutt Lagoon in Western Australia is pink. It’s also a very particular kind of farm.This 70-square-kilometer salt lake is located north of the mouth of the Hutt River. (The Principality of Hutt River,...
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Fleeting Wonders: Police Thwart A Chinese Ghost Wedding
A Chinese tomb guardian. (Photo: Fordmadoxfraud/WikiCommons CC BY-SA 3.0)Three people in China's Shanxi province were recently arrested for attempting to dig up a young female corpse, iCrossChina...
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How New Yorkers Became Convinced That Dinosaur Bones Were Buried in Central Park
Crystal Palace Park dinosaur, designed by Benjamin Hawkins. (Photo: Gareth Williams/flickr)Besides the daily contributions of water bottles and cigarette butts, the ground beneath Central Park contains...
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Prospect Park Water Tower in Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Prospect Park Water Tower sits at the highest point in Minneapolis. The structure is rumored to be the inspiration for Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” as - rising above the trees as it does...
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Amazon Tribes Want to Remain Isolated–So They're Getting the Internet
Project coordinator João Carlos Nunes Batista shows Ululupuene villagers how you can access the internet. (Photo: © 2015 Amazon Conservation Team)For three days in August, Waura villagers in Ulupuene,...
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The Town Of Witches in Triora, Italy
"Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?" -Glinda, Wizard of OzIn Triora, Italy, it didn't matter what kind of witch you were, witches burned. And to this day, the town remembers.In 1587, bad weather and...
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The Day The Music Died Memorial in Clear Lake, Iowa
Some call it "The Day the Music Died" thanks to a reference in Don McClean's song "American Pie," but no matter what it is called, the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. "The...
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Lost City Museum in Overton, Nevada
Resting on the site of another Native American archaeology site, Nevada's Lost City Museum covers a lot of historical ground throughout its displays, but maybe none more important than the cultural...
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Living Underground: A Surprisingly Bright Idea
Travis and Ingram's house (Photo: Dragonfly Hill)In 2012, Steve Travis and Jeff Ingram buried their house. At first, it looked like a dirty mound until Jeff, the gardener of the two, got some...
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Stunning Photos of a Siberian Gold Mine Only Accessible by Air–Or Ice Road
The Kupol Gold Mine, nestled in the desolate landscape of eastern Siberia. (All Photos: © Elena Chernyshova)Above the Arctic Circle, near the East Siberian Sea and far into the Chukotka Autonomous...
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The Hollow Earth Is Filled With Giants, Germans, and A Little Sun
Giants, Germans, and paradise all await within the Hollow Earth. (Rainy Season in the Tropics by Frederic Edwin Church)Ah, the underworld. From time immemorial, people have believed that there is...
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Din Lligwy in Moelfre, Wales
One of the many wonders on the Isle of Anglesey, Din Lligwy is a well-preserved set of stone-built huts in an enclosure dating from the Roman-British period. It is an excellent example of a fortified...
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An Illustrated Guide to the Beautifully Insane Theories of What's Buried...
There are aliens buried under the Vatican. Also, giants. The Statue of Liberty stands on top of the spot where Captain Kidd's treasure was supposed to be buried, along with a demon. And there must be...
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Why Irish Dirt is Worth Millions of Dollars
The luck o' the Irish—it's all buried in their soil. (Photo: TinnaPong/shutterstock.com)Who needs to hunt for leprechauns when a one-pound baggie of lucky Irish dirt only costs $11.40?Official Irish...
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FOUND: An Eerie Shipwreck from 1862
A later steamer from the same line (Image: Currier & Ives/Library of Congress)For more than 150 years, the Bay State has been at the bottom of Lake Ontario. One November day, in 1862, the...
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Partridge Island Quarantine Site in Saint John, Canada
After spending weeks at sea, millions of early 19th-century immigrants would finally set foot on the threshold of their life in the New World at this overlooked gateway that predates Ellis Island by...
View Article100 Wonders: Clown Motel
Clowns have it tough these days. In the last 60 years clowns have undergone a fundamental cultural shift: From goofy, sometimes troublesome characters, to portraits of pure evil. What's behind this...
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King Chulalongkorn Memorial in Utanede, Sweden
A Thai pavilion may be the last thing a visitor would expect to see as far north as Sweden. Nevertheless, the little municipality of Ragunda in northern Sweden is proud host to a kind of building...
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Fleeting Wonders: It's a Planet Party with Orionid Confetti
Planets converge for a party in the sky. (Photo: ESO/Y. Beletsky/WikiCommons CC BY 3.0)There’s a celestial conjunction this weekend—did you get the invite? It’s pretty exclusive; not even all the...
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Goldfield Hotel in Goldfield, Nevada
It was 1908, and a grand affair was taking place.Named for the booming gold rush town it was built to serve, the extravagant Goldfield Hotel was opening its doors. Champagne flowed down the stairs into...
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