cities

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It's hard to imagine now, but New York City's Greenwich Village was once farmland. And the Minetta Brook ran right through it.

Birmingham programmer Matthew Somerville just blessed Londoners with an amazingly helpful tool.

The French capital is home to some unusual new landmarks.

"Dragon gates" are one example of how feng shui has shaped the city.

Don't trust everything you see on Google Maps.

Our everyday activities really are able to indirectly influence the weather in ways that go far beyond our addiction to greenhouse gases.

"Keep Waterloo Weird" does have a certain ring to it, but don't hold your breath.

In the 1910s, the city of New York demolished the apartment building David Hess owned in order to extend a major thoroughfare. But the city didn't seize the entirety of his land—and he wasn't about to give it up lightly.

The discoveries came from the construction of the city's new metro line.

If you begin frequenting a new place, you probably stop going to another, keeping your total number of haunts constant.

Burial and cremation aren't the only two options these days.

Let's hope Washington has enough avocado toast to go around.

From water companies to Spanish fortresses to made-up Native American words.

The City That Never Sleeps has lots of nicknames, but this one might be the most ubiquitous.

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A law makes it illegal to paint the buildings any other color.

A Viking vessel in Saint Kitts, one of the stops on the cruise line's Ultimate World Cruise.

Could you spend the better part of a year on a ship?

A vasectomy kit, a harpoon gun, false teeth, and six full-sized mannequins are just a few of the many strange things that passengers have left behind.