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Model Train Market at Estació de França in Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona's Estació de França is sunlit and bright. The train station is designed in clean classical lines with black and white marble floors. It is one of those stations that feels timeless, conjuring...
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Pauli Bellet Foundation in Kensington, Maryland
Consider for a moment these words from George Orwell’s 1938 “Homage to Catalonia":“I defy anyone to be thrown as I was among the Spanish working class—I ought perhaps to say the Catalan working...
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Pekelné Doly (Mines of Hell) in Lindava, Czech Republic
The largest manmade sandstone caves in Europe, known as Pekelné Doly, or "Mines of Hell," lie in a forested area near the Svitavka River. Dug in the 18th century to collect sand for the production of...
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How We Forgot the Bobbed Haired Bandit
On a cold January night in 1924, a young woman flaunting a stylish bobbed haircut slinked into the Thomas Roulston grocery store in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. She was dolled up...
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In 1969, One Inventor Tried to Sell Police a 'Net Gun' for Catching Robbers
If a burglar is on the loose, what better way to catch them than with a gun that launches a hundred square-foot nylon net? At least, that's what one inventor thought in 1969.In the video above,...
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How the Quintessential Villain's Melody Snuck Into the Popular Consciousness
Picture this short scene in your mind: A sleepy country house sits by the side of the road, birds chirping. Suddenly, a bad guy of some sort—maybe a masked burglar, or a mustached knave—enters stage...
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Found: A Real Human Skull in a Museum Diorama
At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, it was long known that the human figure in one of the museum’s most famous exhibits had real human teeth. Recently, though, a CT scan revealed...
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Canarsie Trolley Graveyard in Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn once had a trolley system as novel and iconic to the borough as the subways are to New York City today, although many New Yorkers might be unaware it ever existed. Even the trolley car...
View ArticleA Truck Full of Puppies Crashed in New York State
Before you read any further, let's make this clear—save for a few bumps and bruises, all of the puppies involved in this incident are fine.Okay, here we go: a van filled with 104 puppies crashed in...
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Wat Pa Thewapithak in Changhan, Thailand
Wat Pa Thewapithak, a hellish amusement park located at a Buddhist temple, isn't the only terrifying theme park of its kind. There are Buddhist Hell parksin Singapore, in Vietnam, and all throughout...
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Nellie Pucell Unthank Memorial in Cedar City, Utah
This statue honors a Mormon pioneer, whose faith, courage, and physical indomitability made her a local hero.She was born Ellen Purcell, but known to family and friends as Nellie, in England in 1846....
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Decoding the Classic Burglar Outfit
Here he comes, creeping through a shadowy alley. It looks like he’s getting away, until a police spotlight captures him against a stark brick wall. In a black domino mask, striped shirt, flat cap, and...
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District Six Museum in Cape Town, South Africa
District Six, or "Distrik Ses" in Afrikaans, was a bohemian, mixed neighborhood in every sense of the word. It was crowded with a multiracial blend of working class people, Jews, Muslims, and...
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The Counterintuitive History of Black Hats, White Hats, And Villains
In the first season of the hit TV show Westworld, a key character chooses to wear a white hat when he enters the western-themed park. Compared to his black-hatted companion, he starts out a gentleman:...
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Watergate Exxon in Washington, D.C.
Ever drive past the seemingly out of place gas station next to the Watergate hotel? That's the old 1932 Higgins Service Station, more widely known in recent years as the Watergate Exxon. It is one of...
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Western Wall Tunnel in Jerusalem, Israel
In 19 BC, Herod the Great expanded the Temple on the Mount by flattening a plateau on the hillside and enclosing it with four stone walls. These walls still remain, the only original part of the...
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The Mystery and Occasional Poetry of, Uh, Filled Pauses
Nearly every language and every culture has what are called “filled pauses,” a notoriously difficult-to-define concept that generally refers to sounds or words that a speaker uses when, well, not...
View ArticleWatch a Howling Wolf Get Speed-Sculpted Out of Clay
If you've been in the mood to scream at the moon lately, perhaps this time-lapse video of a howling wolf emerging from a blob of clay will provide some catharsis. Or at least offer a bit of creative...
View ArticleA 75-Year-Old Woman Used Her Bathtub to Survive a Texas Tornado
Last weekend, a spate of dozens of tornadoes (many of them deadly) raged across the South, including in east Texas, where, on Saturday, Charlesetta Williams, 75, was home watching TV when her son...
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Hall of Records in Mount Rushmore in Keystone, South Dakota
The four giant presidents carved into Mount Rushmore make up one of the more absurd American monuments. However, when chiseling away at the rock face, sculptor Gutzon Borglum had a lot more in mind...
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