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Istvántelek Train Yard in Budapest, Hungary
The abandoned Istvántelek Train Yard (Istvántelki főműhely), otherwise known as the "Red Star Train Graveyard," occupies a vast area of land outside Budapest. More than 100 locomotives and train cars...
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Carmine Oddities Boutique in Orlando, Florida
A strange little shop located in North Orlando, the Carmine Boutique caters to those with a special taste for the odd. Two-headed mummies, strange taxidermy, century-old occult books, if you have a...
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Heald Square Monument's Statue of Liberty in Chicago, Illinois
The Heald Square Monument is a Chicago landmark, an 11-foot tall bronze sculpture by Larado Taft showing General George Washington standing between the two principal financiers of the American...
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Rosary Chapel in Puebla, Mexico
Built in the 17th century, this golden temple has amazed its visitors so much that since its earliest days it has been called the "eighth wonder of the world."Found inside the Church of Santo Domingo...
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Argleton, Lancashire in Argleton, England
Argleton is a small English town which does not actually exist. It appears on Google Maps and Google Earth, but in reality, nothing is there.The supposed location of Argleton, according to Google, was...
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Found: The Bones of a Giant Otter
The otter S. melilutra would have weighed 110 pounds—about the size of a large dog or a small woman. It had the teeth of a badger and could smash or pry open even the most resistant clams and other...
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The Myth of the Damsel on the Railroad Tracks
Most people are familiar with that most clichéd of old cinema tropes: the damsel-in-distress, tied to the railroad tracks by a dastardly villain, only to be saved at the last moment by the dashing...
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A Tram Thief Took a Short Joyride in Austria
Around 8 a.m. this past Saturday, a tram driver on the 60 line in Vienna stopped in Rodaun for a bathroom break. He locked up his tram, and went off to take care of business. But when he returned...
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Lego Bridge in Wuppertal, Germany
While driving through the outskirts of Wuppertal in the Rhine-Rhur metropolitan region of Germany, drivers are wont to stare in disbelief as a giant multicolored cluster of Legos hovers from a bridge...
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Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.
The Government Printing Office is perhaps the largest publisher of reading materials that nobody is ever likely to read, featuring arcane tomes like the Congressional Record and hardcopies of the...
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11 Secret Spaces Hiding in Famous Places
When planning a trip, it's easy to feel torn between wanting to experience a city's must-see iconic landmarks and discovering something unknown to the most passersby. As it happens, there's a third...
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Ned Kelly's Armour in Melbourne, Australia
When Ned Kelly, Australia’s most infamous outlaw, went to the gallows at the ripe old age of 25, he had already spent 10 years leading a life of crime and notoriety. Local newspapers reported...
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When Networks Aired Their Failed TV Pilots in the Middle of the Summer
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.The idea that there should be limits on the quality of what ends up on or TV...
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Window of the World in Shenzhen, China
At the bizarre Window of the World “global village” you will find a life-size Mount Rushmore, London’s Tower Bridge, the Great Pyramids of Giza, a miniature version of Myanmar’s Shwedagon Pagoda, and a...
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Airships: The Most Villainous Form of Transport
Two hours into the 1985 James Bond classic A View to a Kill, antagonist Maximilian Zorin has already pulled out most of the bad-guy stops. He's pushed one of his henchmen through a razor-sharp...
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Monument to the Bombardment of Ellwood in Goleta, California
A simple stone marker on a Southern California golf course marks the spot where a Japanese submarine tried to take out an oil field at the beginning of World War II. It didn’t succeed, but the attack...
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Cat House in Valencia, Spain
Cats are no strangers to urban agglomeration, especially in a warm climate, and the felines of Valencia are no exception. Feral cats roam the streets, looking for a place to rest their bones before...
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Lost: 38,000 Pounds of a Trucker's Marbles
A trucker making his way through Indianapolis on Saturday was driving along Interstate 465 when his trailer became unhitched, spilling 38,000 pounds of marbles on the roadway. Indiana State Police...
View ArticleA Tour of Al Capone's 'Killer' Cadillac, Which Once Terrorized Chicago Streets
In the world of organized crime, Al Capone had few equals. For seven years in the 1920s, as the boss of the Chicago Mafia during Prohibition, Capone shocked the city with bombings, heists, gambling,...
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Foxstone Park Bridge in Vienna, Virginia
For 22 years, from 1979 until his arrest in 2001, FBI agent Robert Phillip Hanssen sold government information to the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation in exchange for cash and diamonds,...
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