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The Story Behind The Devil's Tower, a Giant Rock in the Middle of a Field

This is a transcript of an episode of Untold...

New sleeper service will run from Paris to Berlin next year | Rail travel

The resurgence of sleeper trains on the continent hit...

Colorado Train Museum in Golden, Colorado

Located in Golden, just west of Denver, Colorado...

Continental thrift: five of the best cities in Europe for vintage shopping | Shopping trips

BerlinA city as celebrated for its quirkiness as Berlin...

Steam baths and seaweed safaris on Sweden’s spa island | Sweden holidays

If you came to stay on the tiny island of Styrsö (steer-shuh) in the Gothenburg archipelago in the late 19th or early 20th century, there was a good chance...

Study of Ramón Gómez de la Serna in Madrid, Spain

Ramón Gómez de la Serna, a prominent figure in Madrid’s literary and artistic avant-garde in the 1920s and ’30s, created a unique artistic legacy through his study in...

Six of the best late-summer getaways in southern Europe and Morocco | Beach holidays

Puglia, Italy The summer has left the water deliciously warm. We paddle into sea caves as stunning as cathedrals The huge Pizzomunno rock, in the Puglian town of Vieste, feels...

Redwoods Shouldn’t Be So Tall. Here’s Why They Are.

This is a transcript of an episode of Untold Earth, a series from Atlas Obscura in partnership with Nature and PBS Digital Studios, which explores the seeming impossibilities behind...

‘It landed like an alien spaceship’: 100 years after Bauhaus arrived, Dessau is still a magnet for design fans | Heritage

The heat hits me as soon as I open the door, the single panes of glass in the wall-width window drawing the late afternoon sunlight into my room. The...

Salem Shotwell Covered Bridge in Opelika, Alabama

This is the last surviving covered bridge in Lee County, Alabama. It was originally constructed in 1900 over Wacoochee Creek in Salem, Alabama. A storm in 2005 brought...

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He Chunhui’s Tiny386 Turns the Humble ESP32-S3 Into a Fully-Functional 386-Powered Desktop PC

Developer He Chunhui has turned the humble Espressif ESP32 microcontroller into a fully-fledged '90s personal computer with Tiny386 — a resource-efficient emulator capable of...

22 Pictures of Cats Cozying Up by the Fire and Living Their Fluffiest, Toastiest Lives

When the weather turns cold, cats somehow always discover the warmest, coziest corner of the house usually right by the fireplace. They curl up...

Under-$100 Free People Gifts For Everyone On Your List

It’s pretty safe to say that we’re all on a budget and all short on time. The solution? Free People’s online gift shop. The...

Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answer and Help for Nov. 9 #616

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New...

William Sealy Gosset Plaque in Ireland

When William Sealy Gosset joined the Guinness brewery in Dublin in 1899 as a chemist, he faced a practical problem: how could he...