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Mayfield Railway Station in Manchester, England
Just a stone's throw from Manchester's ultra-modern Piccadilly Station sits the decaying remnants of England's transportation past: the Mayfield Railway Station. Unfortunately, no one quite knows how...
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Behind the Scenes of Brooklyn's Airbnb Igloo–Now Trying For Tinder Sponsorship
The Boutique Igloo for 2: the perfect spot for a first Tinder date. (All photos: Justin Seeley)This weekend, a small group of Brooklyn entrepreneurs and snow-lovers built an igloo and listed it on...
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Wildwood's Doo Wop Beach Hotels Are Desperate for Your Love
A passer-by ponders the lights at Laura’s Fudge Shop in Wildwood, New Jersey. One of the first stores near the boardwalk, Laura’s opened in 1926 and sells online in the off-season. (All photos:...
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Shwe Indein Pagoda in Myanmar
To get to the Shwei Indein Pagoda, one must come to Myanmar in the rainy season, and wind by boat from Inle Lake down eight kilometers of twisting canal. In the winter, the water is too shallow for...
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Why the Man Who Popularized Birthstones in America Came to Loathe His Creation
A hunk of topaz, the birthstone of November. (Photo: Parent Géry/Wikimedia Commons) As children, many Americans get introduced to the idea of birthstones—that the month of your birth corresponds to a...
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Hermann Heights Monument in New Ulm, Minnesota
As far as ethnic identities go, Germanness is...problematic, to say the least. And this charming neoclassical monument in southern Minnesota brings that fact into stark relief.Overlooking the town of...
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Fleeting Wonders: Doomsday Clock Remains At 3 Minutes
This prescient still from the 1928 film Safety Last illustrates our current predicament. (Image: Harold Lloyd and Wesley Stout/WikiCommons Public Domain)Ever wondered how close we are to the end of the...
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S.S. Kyle in Harbour Grace, Canada
Usually when a ship runs aground it is either dragged back out to water, or broken down. But since both of those options are extremely expensive, the S.S. Kyle was simply left where it was, and where...
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Gunung Padang in Campaka, Indonesia
Deep in the jungles of Indonesia there is a hill covered in a mess of stone-age columns, but what lies beneath is possibly one of the oldest structures known to humankind.In 2011, geologist Dr. Danny...
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The Mushroom Death Suit is the Latest in Post-Mortem, Eco-Friendly Fashion
The Infinity Burial Suit, or Mushroom Death Suit, contains mushroom spores that will grow from your body once you have been buried. (Photo: James Patten)Just when you thought you had a handle on all...
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Þingvellir Church in Iceland
Tucked away in Þingvellir National Park, Southern Iceland is a small church. By its anglicized name, "Thingvellier," this breathtaking location was where the Althing parliamentary general assembly met...
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On the evening of January 22, two Australian men were on their way home from a bar on the Gold Coast in Queensland when they stumbled across an attempted robbery of a chicken shop. After foiling this...
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FOUND: The Largest Solar System Ever Discovered
An artist's impression of one very lonely planet (Image: University of Hertfordshire/Neil James Cook)Imagine if a year lasted 328,725,000 days.On the gas giant planet 2MASS J2126−8140, one year—that...
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Castelinho da Rua Apa in São Paulo, Brazil
Known to generations of São Paulo residents as Castelinho da Rua Apa, or "the little castle of Apa Street," what seems at first glance to be nothing more than the crumbling façade of an eccentric home...
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The Teen Who Trekked 1,800 Miles Through Canadian Wilderness Disguised as a Man
The Hudson's Bay Company's outpost on the shore of Lake Saskatoon, Canada. Gunn traveled 1,800 miles between remote trading posts, disguised as a man.(Photo: sprarchives/flickr)The first European woman...
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In 1979, A Computer Programmer Used Code to Threaten Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash dueting with a Navy lieutenant in 1987. (Photo: Gary Rice/Wikimedia Commons)A version of this post originally appeared on Muckrock.Somewhat surprisingly, for the Man in Black, the FBI files...
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Scandinavia's Most Metal Sound Systems Are Made of Horse Skulls
(Image: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections)When you renovate a house, you expect to find little bits of its history. Maybe an old photo lost behind the refrigerator, or a hideous shade of...
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Fleeting Wonders: An All-Female Senate
Tuesday morning's Senate crew. (Screenshot: C-SPAN)The Senate is normally a divisive place, full of shouting matches, endless filibusters, and the occasional violent caning. But yesterday, in the...
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Red Tides Are The Auroras of the Sea
A cloud of neon algae surrounds St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea (Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Flickr)"Too much of a good thing" might be the most apt way to describe the beautiful...
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The Greyhound Hall of Fame in Abilene, Kansas
The welcoming committee at the Greyhound Hall of Fame includes not only the perky greyhound statue out front, but two very real greyhounds named Gary and Jade who hang out just inside the doorway and...
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