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Listen to the Low Earthly Hum of a Candle Pipe Organ

As the wax melts, the pitch changes.

Lauren Young January 17, 2017

Watch an Artist Walk Thousands of Steps to Create Wolves and Leaves in the Snow

These intricate pieces of art are only temporarily preserved.

Lauren Young January 13, 2017

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

Watch This Artist Knit Body Suits and Tapestries Out of Shredded Paper

Who knew magazines could be good knitting material?

Lauren Young January 11, 2017

Watch a Snail Lay Pink Eggs

Bloop...bloop...bloop.

Tao Tao Holmes January 9, 2017

Take a Virtual Tour of the Firefly Forest, a Kansas Park Turned Gnome Village

In 2013, tiny hollow-tree homes for fairies started popping up around Overland Park.

Lauren Young January 6, 2017

Watch a Melodramatic Communist Ballet from 1964

A ballerina weeps over the hammer and sickle in Mao's production of "The Red Detachment of Women."

Molly McBride Jacobson January 5, 2017

Watch Hot Maple Syrup Freeze into Toffee on Packed Snow

Delectable lollipops, sourced from trees.

Lauren Young January 4, 2017

Watch an Armless, Legless Man Light a Cigarette

Prince Randian, a top-billed sideshow performer, did everything with his lips alone.

Molly McBride Jacobson January 3, 2017

Watch Paper Masterpieces of China's Forgotten Tribes Unfold in Pop-Up Books

Artist and photographer Colette Fu uses the pop-up book to tell stories of minority tribes in China.

Lauren Young December 30, 2016

Watch a Bird Trick Meerkats Out of Their Food

Turns out drongo birds are the ultimate con artists of the animal kingdom.

Mariana Zapata December 29, 2016

Watch the Physics of Ballet's Hardest Move Explained

Decoding the legendary spins in Swan Lake.

Mariana Zapata December 27, 2016

Watch Sheets of Paper Turn into a Topographical Map of Lake Baikal

Artist Olga Skorokhod carves shapes into paper to create artistic cartography.

Lauren Young December 22, 2016

Watch Salvador Dali in the Greatest Chocolate Commercial Ever

The sweet stuff was apparently his hidden weakness.

Mariana Zapata December 21, 2016

Take a Virtual Tour of One of the World's Largest Gingerbread Cities

There's a lake, a Ferris wheel, and an operating train.

Lauren Young December 19, 2016

Watch This Adorable Baby Macaque Roll a Snowball Down a Hill

Making snowballs is part of these Japanese snow monkeys' culture.

Lauren Young December 16, 2016

Watch Mad Max Enthusiasts Create a Post-Apocalyptic World in the Desert

Party like it's the end of the world.

Mariana Zapata December 15, 2016

Watch a Hungarian Masked Monster Parade

They're either scaring away Old Man Winter or the Ottoman Empire.

Molly McBride Jacobson December 14, 2016