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Subterranean History: Beautiful Abandoned NYC Subway Station

As all urban exploration enthusiasts know, there are hidden wonders all around us - particularly in rich metropolitan landscapes like New York City. The City Hall subway stop is well-known to NYC ...

Information Illustrated: 14 Infographics & Data Vis Ideas

Write out a paragraph explaining how various telecom companies are suing each other, and it might be hard to grasp just how interconnected all those lawsuits are. But break that same information ...

13 Funny & Ridiculous Vintage Christmas Advertisements

Aah, Christmas in the 1950's. Back when a carton of cigarettes, a Hoover vacuum or a shotgun (for the father, mother and son, respectively, of course) were unquestionably the perfect gifts to ...

Pop-Up Pulp: Book Covers Made Into Dramatic 3D Scenes

The sensational cover art of old pulp fiction novels has long been a source of fascination for lovers of unusual art. The images on the front of the books almost seemed like natural extensions of ...

Subterranean Secrets: 10 Tunnels for Smuggling & War

Perhaps there's one beneath you right now: a hidden underground passage, crumbling and half-forgotten or even modern and air-conditioned, actively whisking contraband goods from one hidden ...

Politics of Photoshop: 15 Shady Edits for Political Purposes

Today, Photoshop and other photo editing tools are used extensively for everything from digitally slimming swimsuit models to retouching school photographs in an effort to erase the memories of ...

Retro-Futurism: 13 Failed Urban Design Ideas & Concepts

Many an architect has dreamed up visionary plans for city centers, but few have actually seen their designs come to fruition in a real live urban setting. And while many such unbuilt concepts are ...

13 Most Weird & Wonderful Collections of Stuff on the Web

You don't have to travel the back roads of the world to see bizarre and amazing collections of unusual objects – some of these wacky museums are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, right at your ...

The Roaring Silence: 10 Cool & Creepy Abandoned Zoos

Zoos are more than just living museums of exotic animals, they're places bursting with life, laughter and wonder - that is, until the cages are emptied and wildlife is gone. These 10 abandoned zoos ...

Textures of Time: A Vanishing America Told in Pictures

All across America, a familiar type of landscape can be found: empty buildings, decaying storefronts and deserted streets. They're not ghost towns, but rather the remnants of a different time. ...

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