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Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Rosenbach museum is home to Bram Stoker’s original notes on vampires and a growing collection of undead literature.

A symbol both of chaos and order, the wolf came to represent many things for the Vikings.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The food rituals of All Hallows' Eve once predicted marriages and summoned spouses.

Ecologists are finding unexpected changes in the delicate ecosystems below Lava Beds National Monument.

What looks like a ghostly blue hand creeping up on a spaceship is actually a special edition of one of nature’s greatest light shows.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

As temperatures rise, one family hopes to establish the world’s northernmost coffee plantation.

Centuries after the philosopher’s death, lingering controversy over his remains highlights a macabre practice of profiting from the dead.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

Robert the Doll is Key West's most cursed object.

"Corpse medicine" created a booming market for craniums, especially mossy ones.

Despite causing a moral panic, these salacious tales helped boost literacy in Victorian England.

Meet the new generation of artisans keeping the tradition alive in U.S. cemeteries.

How a local tradition has hung on for centuries.

Are these cakes weapons against dark forces or just “spiky bagels”?

The times have changed, but the thrill remains the same.