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Meet the adorable cats watching over the city's stores.

A ballerina weeps over the hammer and sickle in Mao's production of "The Red Detachment of Women."

The family of tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers could be millions of years older than anyone realized.

A look at the empty grand hall of a once-bustling station.

There's a strange political battle over how catfish should be regulated.

It's a great day for the children of Langeoog!

One was about bread, the other about deer.

How the occult has been depicted in art, from mandrakes to palmistry.

This tiny, hidden vineyard planted at the birthplace of the first computer produces only 350 bottles of wine each year.

Apparently, they can't be herded.

How a photographer landed an iconic shot of the 1975 performance piece "Media Burn."

Delectable lollipops, sourced from trees.

They can grow 12 feet wide.

Cardinals are mad.

The teeth revealed its location.

Sixteenth century scholars peeled away anatomical ignorance one layer at a time.

It's called the mesentery.

Prince Randian, a top-billed sideshow performer, did everything with his lips alone.