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Robots mid-repair.

Coraopolis, Pennsylvania

Fraley's Robot Repair

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

Found at the Airport: A Hidden Sword Inside an 80-Year-Old Woman's Cane

She apparently didn't know it was there.

Erik Shilling February 10, 2017

The huge white cross by the Madrid Airport is the Paracuellos Cementerio de los Martires.

Paracuellos de Jarama, Spain

Paracuellos Massacres Cross at the Madrid Airport

The mysterious large white cross visible from the runway is a memorial to a massacre during Spanish Civil War.

Watch Planes Try to Land in the World's Windiest City

Flying into Wellington? Make sure that seatbelt is tightly fastened.

Ella Morton January 12, 2017

Luftbrückendenkmal and C-47 Rosinenbomber, Rhein-Main Airbase in Frankfurt.

Frankfurt, Germany

Luftbrückendenkmal: Monument to the Berlin Airlift

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

Queen Tamar Airport, Mestia, Georgia.

Photos of Unique and Beautiful Airports Around the World

Architecture that redefines what it means to travel in style.

Anika Burgess December 9, 2016

Meet San Francisco Airport's New Welcome Pig

LiLou was hired for "her overall cuteness."

Cara Giaimo December 8, 2016

Secret Compartment in Leonardo da Vinci Statue

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.

The ambulance siren: a classic attention-grabber.

An Alarm Designer on How to Annoy People in the Most Effective Ways

There's an art and science to making one sound seem more urgent than another.

Ella Morton November 15, 2016

Man Forges Boarding Passes, Lives in Airport Lounges for 18 Days

It was a luxurious vacation.

Erik Shilling September 19, 2016

A 1963 Pilurs-Smith DSA-1 Miniplane built by Tracy Pilurs, winner of the 1962 Women's National Aerobatic Championship.

Cleveland, Ohio

International Women's Air & Space Museum

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

Artists are Salvaging Train Stations' Analog Departure Boards

As split-flap Solari boards disappear from stations and airports, they reappear elsewhere.

Sarah Laskow September 2, 2016

The airfiled

Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador

Earhart Airfield

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

Fox Newsstand at Minneapolis Airport

Branded Newsstands, Bad Nachos, and the Evolution of Airport Retail

Why are so many airport shops named after news networks?

Ernie Smith August 22, 2016

Permanently Closed

Airport Rangsdorf

Rangsdorf, Germany

Abandoned Airfield Rangsdorf

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

The mobile lounge at Dulles Airport in action, 1960s. (Photo: Library of Congress/LC-DIG-krb-00774)

The Lonely Ballad of the Dulles Airport Mobile Lounge

A high-tech room on wheels and the airport that might have been.

Veronique Greenwood July 26, 2016

A Centuries-Old Man-Made Cave Is Being Demolished to Make Way for an Airport

Some anthropologists, though, are trying to digitize it.

Eric Grundhauser July 18, 2016

Saba, Caribbean Netherlands

Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport

The shortest in the world, this landing strip stretches a mere 1,312 feet before steep cliffs on either end plunge into the Caribbean.