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Manhattan in the late 1920s was a city building upward at a pace that now looks unhinged. Money was cheap, confidence was total, steel-frame construction had removed the old…
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In a glass case in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens sits an object that should not exist. It looks unimpressive at first — a few flattened, blue-green fragments…
The great American road trip has always come with a special breed of attraction: the giant roadside oddity, the "world's largest" something-or-other built to lure travelers off the highway and…
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It is the oldest unsolved mystery in American history, and one of the strangest disappearances anywhere: an entire English colony, more than a hundred people, gone without explanation…
Every so often the planet produces a landscape so far outside ordinary experience that photographs of it get accused of being fake. Strange geology, isolated evolution, and extreme chemistry have…
America is a land of unusual place names, and tucked across its map are real towns whose names sound like jokes, dares, or typos — each one a real incorporated…