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For centuries, the United States and Canada’s only remaining land border dispute has been kept alive by a single family.

When Cameroon and Nigeria settled their long-standing border dispute, it was just the beginning. Then a 21st-century border had to be laid down.

The rise and fall of Venezuela, as seen from a Colombia border city, its grand mosque, and the migrants and converts who worship there.

Germany’s Iron Curtain is now the Green Belt, but turning the old border into a haven for wildlife has taken much more than just letting it be.

How the mysterious, millennium-old, stateless Order of Malta outlived its contemporaries and established a place in the modern Middle East.

Just 10 men are permitted to hunt and pickle 2,000 young seabirds on a desolate island each year.

The first reconstruction from a flesh-and-blood mammoth looked more like a pig.

The cartographic curio was probably an educational tool.

Life finds a way.

And they aren’t playing around.

Only 20 khayamiya artisans are left, in one dusty alley in Cairo. Can e-commerce save them?

Dickens spent the days before his death counting casks of whiskey.

Until it all came crashing down.

If you're over six feet tall, you may need to duck to enter.

Artist Daniel Monnier spent a couple of decades away before returning to complete his vision.

"This is as important to me as any President’s house.”

Alfonso Hernández Saguero is preserving an ancient way of life and its cherished foods.

Studying the highly endangered species requires a little colorful creativity.