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Erie Street, Historic Lowell in Bisbee, Arizona
Visiting Erie Street is like walking into a 1950s post-apocalyptic landscape. From all that is immediately apparent, it could have been abandoned in a hurry and forgotten for half a century. Rusting...
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World of Motorcycles Museum in Winamac, Indiana
Just behind an auto dealership in Winamac, Indiana a pleasant surprise is waiting: the World of Motorcycles museum. It is a little out of the way but most definitely worth the trip.The whole collection...
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Winnats Pass in Castleton, England
The narrow and winding Winnats Pass is located in the Peak District National Park in northern England near the village of Castleton. The road winds through a steep-sided valley surrounded by towering...
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The Handprint in Columbus, Ohio
Right on Ohio State University's famous Oval stands what some believe to be a spectral reminder of an unfortunate happenstance.As the legend goes, a girl, staying late in Hopkins Hall to work on a...
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Labyrinth of Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary
The Labyrinth beneath Budapest's Castle Hill is where Vlad Treves was held captive and tortured for 14 years, starting in 1463. We remember him now as Vlad the Impaler, better known as "Count Dracula."...
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Lord Howe Island's Time in Lord Howe Island, Australia
Every year, all across the world, every nation that observes Daylight Saving Time (DST) will turn its clocks forward one hour in March and back an hour in November. That is, except for one tiny island...
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The 200-Year Old Book That Sent the East Coast Into a Sex Panic
In June of 1964, at a Hackensack, New Jersey courthouse, pediatrician Dr. William Reilly was called upon to give testimony regarding the dangers of reading about “abnormal” sexuality. In the course of...
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Ralphael Plescia's "Christian School" in Salt Lake City, Utah
For nearly 50 years, Ralph Plescia has been making art and studying obscure passages from the Bible, extracting images and interpretations that he describes as forgotten stories, especially relating to...
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North Carolina's 12th Congressional District in Mooresville, North Carolina
Gerrymandering has long played a worrisome role in U.S. elections, and North Carolina’s awkwardly shaped 12th Congressional District was the epitome of the problem. Dubbed the most gerrymandered...
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The 1915 Map That Helped All Women Get the Vote
You might have seen what today's electoral map would look like if only women voted. Well, here’s another version of that map—a “suffrage map” from early 20th century America. Suffrage maps played an...
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The Ancients Used Hyena's Foot for Childbirth—And Identified Copper As a...
Watch any modern depiction of the Greeks and Romans on TV and you’ll see an endless montage of exciting sex, often involving scores of topless women and writhing orgies. Fun as these exaggerated...
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The Last Resort Bar in Port Orange, Florida
On January 9, 1991, police arrested Aileen Wuornos while she was drinking a beer at The Last Resort biker bar in Port Orange, Florida. Though she was arrested for an outstanding warrant, a decade later...
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Buried Forest Museum in Uozu, Japan
In 1930, work began to renovate and expand the fishery harbor in the port town of Uozu. As the project progressed, a strange discovery was made: the remains of an entire forest, buried under the seabed...
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The Controversial Device That Might Make You Feel the Presence of a Higher Power
In the middle to late 1990s, the frenzy for neuroscientific explanations for everything from why we laugh to how we fall in love was only just gaining a toehold in the popular science. And word was...
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How G.I. Joe Inspired a Movement to Ban War Toys
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.The '80s were by and large a time of peace for the United States. The Cold War...
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The Long Death of Product 19, the Most Beloved Cereal You've Never Heard Of
When you hear the name “Product 19,” you’ll either flash on an experimental invention from some corporate R&D department, or, if you're one of its fans, you might think of the health cereal, rare...
View ArticleWatch This Compilation of Painfully Unsatisfying Moments
UNSATISFYING from PARALLEL STUDIO on Vimeo.You’re craving a soda and have just spent the last five minutes scouring through every pocket of your backpack and looking around on the floor for any lost...
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Northumberlandia: Lady of the North in Northumberland, England
Walking the four miles of swirling paths that wind around the green hills and swales, the world's largest work of "Earth art" is so big and so abstract that it’s hard to reconcile into a unified form....
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Maryland's 3rd Congressional District in Maryland
Maryland's strangely shaped 3rd Congressional district stretches all the way from Baltimore to Montgomery, and contains portions of both cities along with some rural areas in between. It weaves through...
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