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Including the United States' first coast-to-coast car adventure, its fastest, and one of its absolute worst.

From Mary Roach’s hilarious look at space travel to astronaut Scott Kelly’s photos documenting a year off planet.

The oldest pet cemetery in the U.S. is full of heartwarming memorials.

Historians owe a debt of gratitude to these furry pilferers.

Here's what you need to know about witnessing the annual August event, when Earth passes through a comet's castoffs.

A small museum tells the stories of the Gullah Geechee people and how they've shaped America.

Cremated archaeological finds can tell us a lot about Early Medieval baking habits.

The fragrant smoke of tian op perfumes royal Thai desserts.

Explore a catastrophic space rock strike, unique flora and fauna, and millennia-old rock art on this famous stretch of desert road.

This perplexing abandoned housing development is part ghost town, part fairy tale.

It’s much more than a drink.

Researchers are trying to unravel the mystery of snow that falls but never shows up in the river.

What do Russians have to do with this Indigenous Hawaiian fort?

A nation divided into not two—but four—took the idea of secession to an extreme.

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

From Twitter's rebranding to algebra, this single letter has an uncommon amount of...X factor. A historian of mathematics gets to the root of it.

Montélimar nougat rose to fame thanks to vacationers' traffic jams.