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One hamburger please, hold the LSD.
objects of intrigue

A Psychedelic Hamburger Helped Convict Charles Manson

Ten hits of acid led to one powerful testimony.
Paula Mejia November 21, 2017
Police search the Deans' garden in Winton.
murder

Was Minnie Dean Really the Wickedest Woman in New Zealand History?

Revisiting the case of the only woman ever executed on its shores.
Natasha Frost November 1, 2017
Malta's Azure Window, featuring in the first season of Games of Thrones, collapsed into the sea after a storm last May.
art

Graffiti Has Long Had a Place in the Art World, But Probably Not the Natural One

An incident on Malta has locals angry about cliffside art.
Vittoria Traverso September 28, 2017
Former prison on Gorgona
Guapi, Colombia

Gorgona Island Prison Ruins

This maximum-security prison was abandoned to make way for a national park.
The walls of the catacombs are mostly made of limestone, an easy material for wine thieves to bore through.
crime

Thieves Infiltrated the Paris Catacombs to Steal $300,000 of Wine

An underground oenological heist.
Natasha Frost August 30, 2017
Forest Park, Illinois

Haymarket Martyrs Monument

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.
The spit stone in Bremen.
Bremen, Germany

Spuckstein Gesche Gottfried

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.
Who is this man? Hard to say.
crime

The Many Faces of Brooklyn's Greatest Imposter

Stanley Clifford Weyman lived many, many lives.
Eric Grundhauser August 23, 2017
Permanently Closed
Exterior of Ted Kaczynski's Cabin.
Washington, D.C.

The Unabomber's Cabin

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.
crime and punishment

So Much Depends Upon the Return of a Stolen Wheelbarrow

Ask and ye shall receive.
Erik Shilling August 3, 2017
It doesn't look like much now, but in 2003 it was brand new.
crime

Found: A Plastic-Wrapped SUV Buried Under an ATV Ramp

It was reported stolen in 2003.
Eric Grundhauser July 27, 2017
The returned tortoise, with the NYPD detectives that helped find him.
animals

A Tortoise Stolen From Queens Has Been Found, Unharmed

Millennium was missing for over a week.
Erik Shilling July 25, 2017
The shame masks.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany

Medieval Crime Museum

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.
Library theft was made a criminal offense in 1982.
libraries

The Rare-Book Thief Who Looted College Libraries in the '80s

By passing as a professor, James Richard Shinn made off with over $100,000 worth of books.
Susan Falciani July 20, 2017
Island Park, Idaho

Yellowstone's Zone of Death

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.
A fossilized cycad.
national parks

The National Park That Was Stolen to Death

Fossil Cycad National Monument held America's richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn't.
Cara Giaimo July 11, 2017
George Cassiday in 1930
Washington, D.C.

Bootlegging Room in the Cannon House Office Building

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.
An older toe.
hotels

Stolen: An Amputated Toe Used to Make Cocktails

The Downtown Hotel's famous "Sourtoe Cocktail" is now missing its garnish.
Cara Giaimo June 20, 2017