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Sold: Sylvia Plath's Rolling Pin and Recipes
Browned and splattered, a set of recipe cards owned by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet raised a lot of dough.
Troy, New York
'House of Aldus'
This stained glass window designed by Tiffany Studios is hidden behind the circulation desk of a public library.
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Podcast: Kilwa Kisiwani
Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
plaques
Locally Famous Foods Are Now Getting Plaques Like Historical Sites
Syracuse got one for salt potatoes—could your hometown be next?
nazis
What Should You Do With a Captured Nazi Flag?
During WWII, American soldiers brought the flags home as a remembrance. Now, family members and historians must decide what should become of them.
Morven, Australia
Kerosene Tin Hut
These tin huts were commonplace in Australia during the Great Depression.
Farmington, Pennsylvania
General Braddock's Gravesite(s)
The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.
Chicago, Illinois
Calumet Fisheries
One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.
surfing
The Tragic Life and Global Legacy of the Last Hawaiian Princess
'Brilliant, beautiful, and betrayed,' Princess Ka‘iulani was also the mother of modern surfing.
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Farrandsville Iron Furnace
This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.
food
Eat Like Jane Austen With Recipes From Her Sister-In-Law's Cookbook
Including dishes straight from her novels.
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Remagan Bridge
A piece of the Ludendorff Bridge, also known as Remagan Bridge, calls this military base home.
Baker, Montana
O'Fallon Historical Museum
This six-building complex is the home of the world's largest steer.
churches
Found: A Massive Medieval Cathedral From a 'Forgotten' Nubian Kingdom
The discovery adds to our knowledge of Makuria, which ruled a vast region of Africa for six centuries.
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Where Are the Last of Maine's Historic King Pines?
Deep in the wilderness, some say, forest giants claimed by the British Crown still tower above lesser trees.
hospitals
The Quest to Honor Disabled Patients Buried in Anonymous Graves
Historically, institutions often interred their dead with simple markers. In Massachusetts, researchers are learning about the patients' lives and the facilities' fraught legacies.
Alexandria, Virginia
Historic Huntley Plantation
The former home of Thomson Francis Mason, the mayor of Alexandria from 1827-1830.
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The Long History of 'Bombay Time' and Resistance to Colonial Rule
For decades the city of Mumbai operated by two—or more—different clocks.
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