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Westminster, Massachusetts: Ski Hills, Historic Mills and Small-Town New England Charm
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Westminster, Massachusetts: Ski Hills, Historic Mills and Small-Town New England Charm

Westminster, MA packs a 2,000-foot ski mountain, 1,000-acre wildlife area, 18th-century mills and cheap golf i...

Fort Tilden: A Former Cold War Missile Base With a Quiet Beach Under an Hour From Manhattan
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Fort Tilden: A Former Cold War Missile Base With a Quiet Beach Under an Hour From Manhattan

Fort Tilden in Queens was a Cold War missile base. Now it has hiking trails, ruins, theatre and one of NYC's q...

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Front Street, San Pedro: A Look Back at Ambergris Caye's Original Waterfront

A nostalgic look at Front Street — now Barrier Reef Drive — in San Pedro Town, Ambergris Caye, and what the is...

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The Man Who Gave Britain Daylight Saving Time — and the Kent Woods That Honour Him

How a Chislehurst builder named William Willett invented daylight saving — and where to visit the Kent woods a...

Buckler's Hard: The 18th-Century Shipbuilding Village Hiding in the New Forest
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Buckler's Hard: The 18th-Century Shipbuilding Village Hiding in the New Forest

Buckler's Hard in the New Forest built ships for Nelson — today it offers free museums, river cruises, wildlif...

How One 1909 Photograph Convinced the World Muztagh Tower Was Unclimbable
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How One 1909 Photograph Convinced the World Muztagh Tower Was Unclimbable

A 1909 telephoto photo made Muztagh Tower look unclimbable. In 1956, British and French teams summited it from...

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King George III's London Observatory Is Up for Sale

The King's Observatory at Kew, built for George III's 1769 Transit of Venus, is for sale. Why this Grade I lis...

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: The College Town With Brews, Free Concerts and Colonial History an Hour From Cape Cod
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Bridgewater, Massachusetts: The College Town With Brews, Free Concerts and Colonial History an Hour From Cape Cod

Bridgewater, MA, an hour from Cape Cod, pairs craft beer at Black Hat Brew Works with free summer concerts and...

Fort Hancock: The Abandoned Army Base Hiding on New Jersey's Sandy Hook
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Fort Hancock: The Abandoned Army Base Hiding on New Jersey's Sandy Hook

Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook, NJ: historic Army ruins, America's oldest lighthouse, quiet beaches, NYC ferry acc...

Henry Box Brown: The 27-Hour Journey That Became Underground Railroad Legend
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Henry Box Brown: The 27-Hour Journey That Became Underground Railroad Legend

Henry "Box" Brown mailed himself from slavery in Richmond to freedom in Philadelphia in a 27-hour crate journe...

Another cannon surfaces at Đà Nẵng's Điện Hải Citadel — the 10th so far
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Another cannon surfaces at Đà Nẵng's Điện Hải Citadel — the 10th so far

A 2.95m cannon has been unearthed at Đà Nẵng's Điện Hải Citadel — the tenth found there, tied to the 1858-60 f...

Life at 8,200 Feet: Inside Cerro Gordo, California's Reborn Ghost Town
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Life at 8,200 Feet: Inside Cerro Gordo, California's Reborn Ghost Town

A ghost town at 8,200 feet: how Brent Underwood bought Cerro Gordo, lost its hotel to fire, and is rebuilding...

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