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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…
Cruises punish disorganization more than any other kind of travel. A flight can be rebooked and a hotel can be arrived at late, but a ship departs on a schedule…