Articles by Dylan Thuras

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This small, uninhabited island offers a rare chance to spend quality time with Iceland’s signature bird.

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First stop, a mystical chamber hidden beneath the Italian countryside.

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A father-and-son team created a menagerie of incredible glass models using mysterious methods.

This cross-country route takes in the 37 greatest pinball arcades in the U.S.

Things get heated.

Five days. Fifty hidden wonders. A thousand miles.

Ominous landscapes of aquatic exploration.

The world's oldest living trees have been growing in Nevada for more than 5,000 years.

A different sort of listening party.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom is hidden beneath the surface of Chihuahua, Mexico.

It has more defensive tools than you could possibly imagine.

It's a lure, with lights.

In 1919 a wave of molasses traveling at 35mph destroyed an entire neighborhood.

Its path through the animal world is quite twisted.

Garbage can be beautiful, if sorted correctly.

A sea zombie, in video form.