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With No Parade This Year, New Orleans Is Festooned With Mardi Gras ‘House Floats’

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(via Atlas Obscura) For Mardi Gras 2021, when the very idea of a large, tightly packed crowd feels years away,

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(via Atlas Obscura) A sturdy desk, an empty pool, and—maybe—secret passages.

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(via Amusing Planet) One of Rome’s lesser-known attractions, the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, lies just a block away

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(via Amusing Planet) The aqueduct of Segovia is a classic example of Roman water transport architecture—simple in design, yet magnificent

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(via Mental Floss)The Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Statue of Liberty—these are some of the most photographed landmarks on Earth.

(via Smithsonian) The National Trust for Historic Preservation names these sites as the most endangered cultural treasures in our country.

(via Atlas Obscura) The famous gateway to the United States lay abandoned for years before it was restored.

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(via BuzzFeed) In 1956, the Southdale Shopping Center, located in Edina, Minnesota, opened to the public as the first modern

(via mental_floss) The Founding Fathers built the groundwork for America, but they were much more than military strategists and document

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(via Atlas Obscura) Half an hour south of the Canadian border, in Fairdale, North Dakota, a hulking concrete structure rises

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(via Amusing Planet) Hundreds of towns and villages have perished due to massive earth-moving projects such as the construction of

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(via Amusing Planet) The Malbork Castle in northern Poland wears two feathers in its cap. Not only it is the