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The Eccentric Father of Early American Taxidermy Practiced on Ben Franklin's Cat

Charles Willson Peale befriended the founding fathers and started the first U.S. natural history museum, among other accomplishments.

Elaine Howley June 13, 2016

Lake Tear of the Clouds

Keene Valley, New York

Lake Tear of the Clouds

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

Susan B. Anthony House & Museum

Rochester, New York

Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

Aghlabid Basins

Kairouan, Tunisia

Aghlabid Basins

This grand hydraulic installation has provided water for townspeople since the Middle Ages.

Fes el-Bali

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

Muir's clock, circa 1860. Exhibit at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.

Madison, Wisconsin

John Muir's Alarm Clock Desk

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

The Married Woman Who Kept Her Lover in the Attic

Dolly Oesterreich, her "Bat Man," and one of the strangest sex scandals ever.

Addison Nugent June 7, 2016

What Happened to 'The Most Liberated Woman in America'?

Barbara Williamson co-founded one of the most famous radical sex experiments of the 1970s. Then she got wild.

Alex Mar June 7, 2016

How Unions and Regulators Made Clothing Tags an Annoying Fact of Life

A brief history.

Ernie Smith June 6, 2016

A 19th-Century Cartographer Crammed All of Human History into this Map

It presents important events from the beginning of time as rivers flowing into and out of each other.

David Doochin June 6, 2016

The Dell

Boston, Massachusetts

Central Burying Ground

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Italian POW Chapel

Franklin, Indiana

Camp Atterbury Prisoner of War Chapel

A chapel built by Italian POWs during World War II tells a forgotten tale of the war on the home front.

Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan

Afghanistan's Blue Mosque

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

There’s an Art Deco Airport Lying Ruined in Brooklyn

Luckily, dedicated volunteers have been restoring the beautiful planes.

Luke Spencer June 2, 2016

Dissidents Cemetery

Valparaiso, Chile

The Dissidents Cemetery

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

Kean Collection / Getty Images

When American Feminists Were Pilloried for Daring to Wear Bloomers

Turns out that there is no garment that women can't get criticized for wearing.

Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite May 31, 2016

The school was designed and built by two local carpenters

Mountain View, Arkansas

Turkey Creek Schoolhouse

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.

Fès - El Karaouine

University of Al-Karaouine

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.