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Charles Dickens once stayed here on a reading tour for ‘A Christmas Carol.’

How roving capybaras became working-class heroes in Argentina and human residents come together to protect Christmas Island’s crab migration every year.

The Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil’s Bible, is the largest medieval manuscript still in existence—with an even bigger legend behind it.

Asian giant hornets, or murder hornets, are officially eradicated in the U.S. and Canada—for now.

Don’t do anything Dylan wouldn’t do.

This 1991 experiment spawned a wave of new research about engineering, agriculture, and space exploration.

A physics expert and audio engineer may have solved the mystery of a strange noise that rattled an Oregon town in 2016.

Napoleon spent his final years in exile throwing dinner parties for his generals.

When your new partner shows up without luggage, or, worse yet, turns out to be a morning person.

The iconic Antarctic airport shuttle is retiring from McMurdo Station after 30 years of service. What will he do next?

Cats and rats both hunt endangered species. So why do we love one and hate the other?

Luis Sorriano straps his books to two trusted donkeys and brings the classroom to children in hard-to-reach towns.

The only skyscraper Frank Lloyd Wright designed is currently sitting empty. Turns out, its design was maybe a little too considered.

You can visit the father of utilitarianism anytime you like. But will it make you happy?

What’s the real story behind America’s most infamous Air Force base?

In the 1860s and ’70s, people would gather, listen to live music, eat delicious food, and ... watch people walk in circles?

Located across from a bookstore in Alresford, England, this public toilet served as an information superhighway for spies.

In 1800, Elma Sands was found murdered at the bottom of the Manhattan Well. What followed was America’s first recorded trial.