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Mud Volcanoes: Volcanoes But For Mud

Here's How Capetown Does Lamb: Not Just the Neck or Leg, But the Whole Head

Unusual Duels Vol. 3: Melfant Vs. Lenfant

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Places You Can No Longer Go: Aigleville

The Prima Donna Who Snuck into Tibet in 1912 to Meet the Dalai Lama

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The Atlas Obscura Guide to 11 Hidden Wonders of Vienna

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The Strange Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe’s Hair

Unusual Duels Vol 2: The Captain vs. The Creole

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Beauty in the Wreckage: 7 of the Loveliest Shipwrecks in the World

The Oddly Brutal Festival That Takes Over the Bolivian Andes

Inside the Quest for the World's Largest Gingerbread Village

5 Obscure Contests and Sports That Could Use a Classic Rivalry

The Strange, Bitter 19th Century Debate Over Where Toledo Was

7 Of The World's Most Heated City Rivalries, Ranked

Unusual Duels Vol 1: The Princess Vs. The Countess

Saying Goodbye To Your Favorite Mummy

The New Jersey Cemetery Trapped in the 19th Century

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Shipwrecks, Scurvy and Sea Otters: The Tale of the First European in Alaska