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Post Office Bay on the Galapagos Islands is a post office that runs on luck and the goodwill of visitors. It has a knack for bringing strangers toget…
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Classic: The World’s Quietest Room
Experience the Orfield Anechoic Chamber: a room inside a concrete bunker that was once known as the quietest place on earth.
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Classic: Re-up Your Luck
We explore the power luck has on us all, rational or not, through the unlikely places people go to re-up.
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Classic: Nepali Folk Musical Instrument Museum
This secluded museum beats the drum for the preservation of Nepal's musical heritage.
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Classic: Dude Chilling Park
A renegade art project in Vancouver galvanized a small community, pitted residents against city government, and ultimately resulted in a new name for…
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Classic: The Tank
An industrial water tank-turned-concert hall in the high deserts of Colorado is nothing less than a sonic wonder of the world.
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Classic: World’s Loneliest Tree
About 400 miles south of New Zealand, on the subantarctic Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, stands a Sitka spruce whose nearest neighbor is 170 miles a…
3 years, 7 months ago
Classic: The Forgotten Songs Sound Sculpture
This unique installation in Sydney, Australia combines art and ornithology, commemorating the calls of the city’s lost birds. Plus, bin chickens!
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3 years, 8 months ago
Classic: Moses Gates and the Chrysler Building Eagles
Urban planner Moses Gates shares his unlikely experience with the residents of the 61st floor of one of New York City’s most iconic buildings.
3 years, 8 months ago
Classic: Newark Earthworks
Updated December 2022. Built by indigenous people thousands of years ago, the Newark Earthworks are part cathedral, part cemetery, and part astronomi…
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