Gustave Eiffel’s Secret Apartment
(via Atlas Obscura) When the Eiffel Tower opened in 1889 to universal wonder and acclaim, designer Gustave Eiffel soaked up
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5 People Who Were Basically Indiana Jones
(via Neatorama) Explorers, archaeologists, treasure hunters, there were many men who inspired the tales of intrepid adventurers that were eventually
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Gaze Upon the Faded Glory of Route 66’s Signs
(via Atlas Obscura) When, in 1926, a new highway called U.S. Highway 66 was opened between Illinois and California, few
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Silent Film Shows How Motorcycles Were Built Before the Assembly Line
Have you ever wondered what manufacturing was like back when vehicles were truly hand-assembled? Even before Henry Ford popularized the
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Photographer Recreates Images He Originally Shot 40 Years Ago
(via design you trust) Paramedic Chris Porsz spent hours walking around the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (Great Britain) in the
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Striking Photos of Philadelphia’s Abandoned Power Stations
(via Atlas Obscura) The new book Palazzos of Power: Central Stations of the Philadelphia Electric Company, 1900-1930 explores the history
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14 Unbelievably Beautiful Photos Of This Week’s Supermoon
(via Popular Mechanics) Over the weekend, we got out first glimpse of a rare supermoon–a new or a full moon
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The Nuclear Bunker Preserving Movie History
(via Great Big Story) America’s movie and film archive is located in an underground bunker in Culpepper, Virginia. The bunker
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How a Printer Kept the Art of the Album Cover Alive
(via Collectors Weekly) While most of the buzz about the resurgence of vinyl records has focused on the skyrocketing sales
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How The Atomic Tests Looked Like From Los Angeles
(via Amusing Planet) Between 1951 and 1992, the United States conducted 928 atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site about
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8 Odd Beauty Standards in Turn-of-the-Century Photographs
(via mental_floss) People int he late 1800s and early 1900s who went to the trouble of having their portraits taken
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7 Photographic Tricks, Hoaxes, and Fads Before Photoshop
(via mental_floss) You know the old cliché: The camera doesn’t lie. But that wasn’t true even before computers made it
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