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Nuclear war readiness meant stocking the pantry and recipes for canned ham salad.

How an art prank created a new Halloween legend for the Miawpukek First Nation.

The annular eclipse will make its way across the Western Hemisphere on October 14.

Families hire a bone collector in Taiwan to fix problematic tombs—and sometimes deal with ghosts.

Mark Villalobos and Heather Mages create frightful fun in horror films big and small.

We learn about a peculiar belief that was once widespread: the hope to be saved by a bell.

‘My Everyday Lagos’ is an uncompromising guide to this diverse city's cuisine.

Sound and electricity play all kinds of tricks at Eastern State Penitentiary.

Animal Planet's 'Bear Whisperer' shares how the California town copes with both dumpster-diving bears and human party animals.

Visit an East African restaurant that serves up a small slice of Burundi in the Motor City.

Nestled in Vermont’s Hope Cemetery, ‘The Dying Man’ tells the tragic tale of the area’s Italian gravestone carvers.

The serpent-like oarfish has long been considered an omen of natural disaster. Scientists are shaking up that old superstition.

For the Diggers of San Francisco, stew was subversive.

A Wilmington garden invites kids to drop screens and rules and just play.

A guide called the Amduat helped pharaohs navigate the complex afterlife.

When life gives you marshmallows, turn them into marlow.

Terrifying love spells and protective "spells to power" offered the chance for control in a fiercely hierarchical society.

We journey through the ocean depths, meeting a different cephalopod at each stop along the way.