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Mark down these dates for adventure in the year ahead.

Delight and confound your nearest and dearest with these strange and wondrous gifts.

From pennies to Port-o-Potties, an exhaustive tally of 2016's most extraordinary highway truck spills.

From Susan B. Anthony to Lucy Stone.

"The dream was candidates around a roasting pig, and Bernie was running through the woods."

Here are the panic dreams you sent us.

It's not your fault.

Come celebrate the release of our very first book!

This fall, you can find our signature event in Green-Wood and Laurel Hill cemeteries.

Lovesick? Fighting with friends? Get advice from the ancients.

Camp Hero, an abandoned radio station, is a hub of questionable activity. Or so they say.

New York's Plum Island has been the source of so many conspiracy theories over the years.

The psychosis that took over the Massachusetts city might have been caused by mold.

Almost 600 people responded to our survey on far-flung love.

Even an Army Corps study couldn't determine its source.

They just can't.

The German capital is equal parts fairytale, steam bath, and spy meet-up.

The New Power Generation came out in force.

What adventurers saw and snapped during our annual day of exploration.

See a blanket of tiny lights in Uluru, Australia.

Need some animal babies in your life? Check out these live feeds.

Knitwear is not just for humans, you know.

Wisconsin's largest city is brewing a lot more than beer.

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