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It's the work of some activists.

Dancing is better down where it's wetter.

The steamboat Arabia carried 200 tons of treasure when it sank in 1856.

Pizza deserves to be happy.

It can get loud.

The little-known, highly complex fuel route that helped the Allies defeat the Nazis.

Be safe out there.

Attention, passengers: this video may cheer you up.

It was hauled out of the water during a Russian military exercise.

The digital journal Underwater New York tells the stories of objects submerged and washed ashore.

Youths keep throwing rocks at her.

Can a strip of mesh really keep great whites away?

And other fragrant underwater tales.

Camp Hero, an abandoned radio station, is a hub of questionable activity. Or so they say.

Glow-in-the-dark marine life.

New York's Plum Island has been the source of so many conspiracy theories over the years.

David Plotz and Atlas Obscura welcome you to Escape Plan, an audio project about road trips sponsored by Zipcar. First stop: John D. Rockefeller's mansion.

Funded, incidentally, by William Randolph Hearst.