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Why Sarasota Is an Ideal Destination for Nature Lovers

BY JENNIFER FRANKLIN With its white-sugar sand and turquoise gulf waters, it’s ...

Snake Stories: Our Favorite Reads

On January 29, communities around the world rang in the Lunar New Year. In the C...

Ask Us Your Burning Travel Questions

Have you ever found yourself wondering how to visit the Gates of Hell, the manma...

The Quest to Save the World’s Rarest Pasta

This article is adapted from the February 1, 2025, edition of Gastro Obscura’s...

As Cities Get Warmer, Rat Populations Are on the Rise

This story was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of the C...

Blood-Powered Toes Give ‘Skydiving’ Salamanders a Boost

Up in the canopy of Northern California’s old-growth coast redwoods, about 100 f...

Qinngua Valley in Greenland

Greenland is ice and Iceland is green, or so the saying goes. In reality, Icela...

How a UC Davis Research Center Is Changing the World of...

On a recent frosty morning, I stood outside a small building on the University o...

Piece of the Berlin Wall in Bexley, Ohio

Since November 9, 1989, when the wall dividing East and West Berlin came down, ...

'Die Räuberköpfe' ('The Robbers' Heads') in Kiel, Germany

On an exterior wall of a convent in Kiel, northern Germany, two stone medallion...

Garfield Trail in Marion, Indiana

Winding through Indiana’s Grant County, the Garfield Trail features 14 statues ...

Southwold Sailors’ Reading Room in England

Built in 1864 by Captain Henry Rous, a naval officer who cared about local sail...

Sybil Ludington Statue in Carmel Hamlet, New York

One of the less-known figures of the American Revolution, Sybil Ludington was a...

How Can You Spot an Inaccurate Dinosaur? AO Wants to Know.

AO Wants to Know is an ongoing interview series where we ask experts in extrao...

Questionable Cure-Alls: Our Favorite Reads

Throughout history, medical treatments have taken many different forms. Some wer...

Kajiki Unofficial Mint Site in Aira, Japan

For many centuries, feudal Japan’s monetary system was based not on bullion but...

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