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Drive into the hills of eastern Pennsylvania to the spot where Centralia used to be, and you'll find something that shouldn't exist: a town-shaped emptiness. Streets laid out in…
A grand hotel lobby is a piece of architecture the public was always meant to walk into. These twelve have histories worth knowing and interiors worth seeing, and in most…
The awkwardness of dining alone is mostly anticipatory: it is worse in advance than in the moment, and it shrinks quickly with a few deliberate decisions. Here are twelve that…
Dessert is where cooking becomes closest to chemistry, and where small errors are least forgiving. Here are twelve from around the world, and what each one is actually teaching you.…
The Dead Sea Is Not a Sea, and Its Water Is So Dense With Salt That a Human Body Cannot Sink Into It
The Dead Sea produces one of the most recognisable travel photographs there is: a person lying on their back on the surface of the water, reading a newspaper, entirely unsupported.…
There are natural phenomena that photographs oversell, and this is one of the few that photographs undersell, largely because cameras struggle with it.
The effect is simple to describe. In…