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A hidden rail platform once used by presidents and tycoons still lingers beneath the Waldorf Astoria.
Buried deep inside a frozen mountain in the Arctic, humanity’s backup plan is quietly waiting.
Book by camel? Yes, please!
It looked like a palace... but it was built for the cosmos.
It’s one of the driest places on Earth. Most years, it’s lifeless. And then—almost overnight—it explodes with color.
A fortress built to defend the coast - a prison left to rot.
Discovered in a burial mound, forgotten for over a century, and now guiding archaeologists to a lost Bronze Age kingdom.
In the hills just outside Baku, Azerbaijan, fire flows from the earth.
On a rugged island in the Atlantic, conversations ride the wind.