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South of Miami, in the town of Homestead, Florida, stands one of the strangest structures in America — a sprawling compound of massive carved stone, complete with towering walls,…
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The Voynich manuscript is the most stubborn document in the world. It is a real, physical object — roughly 240 surviving pages of vellum, bound, densely handwritten, and lavishly…
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On August 25, 1835, readers of a cheap New York daily called the Sun opened their paper to an astonishing announcement. A celebrated astronomer, working from an observatory at…
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Machu Picchu is one of the most recognizable places on Earth, and the story attached to it is one of the most durable pieces of misinformation in travel. Nearly…
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Some mysteries survive because the facts are murky. The Mary Celeste has survived for more than 150 years because the facts are unusually clear, and they make no sense.…
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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…