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Once a haven for middle-class vacationers, the zoo closed in 2006. With visitors and animals gone, nature started reclaiming the property.

Maybe you can take it with you.

Two investors bought most of the buildings in downtown Brownsville, then let them fall into ruin. Now, the Rust Belt town's residents are fighting to bring it back to life.

Scientists compiled decades of data to reveal the continent hiding beneath millions of miles of ice.

Some of the moons orbiting Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus may hide deep saltwater expanses beneath their icy crusts.

Bethlehem Steel was the birthplace of skyscrapers, bridges, and battleships. What happened after the plant's furnaces went cold?

In the 1980s, archaeologists uncovered 168 ancient skeletons from the peat at the bottom of Windover Pond.

It’s been nearly 40 years since a reactor exploded at this Soviet nuclear power plant, but disaster has a long half-life.

Never a commercial success, the Long Island cheese pumpkin deserves a place in your Thanksgiving dessert.

Mysterious late-night visits, an undercover hunt for Hitler's horses, and a Picasso on the couch are business as usual for the Dutch sleuth.

Archaeologists have found the remains of hundreds of Iron Age fighters at Alken Enge—but they didn't die there.

Why do modern witches embrace "The Wicker Man"?

After decades in a Philadelphia shipyard, the last great American ocean liner may be destined for the seafloor.