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With a Geiger counter and the right permits, visitors can enter Chernobyl's 18-mile Zone of Exclusion. What they'll encounter is straight out of a horror movie.

In 2004, the rover Opportunity landed on Mars. Originally intended to serve a mere 90-day mission, the rover instead beamed back scientific discoveries for more than a decade—and now its groundbreaking mission is over.

Since 2011, guests at Takhini Hot Pools have used the freezing weather in Canada to sculpt frozen hair styles that double as works of art.

Most are in Croatia, Northern Ireland, Spain, or Iceland.

The images were at the center of one of the most notorious hoaxes in history.

Massimo Listri's The World's Most Beautiful Libraries is a visual tour of the world's most spectacular temples devoted to the written word.

Wow!

Temperatures occupy -40°F territory all winter.

Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales reveals some of the scenes that would have confronted escaped slaves as they journeyed north.

Gilbert Kerr donned full Highland dress in the Antarctic cold.

A new book gathers 200 beautiful images showing evolution’s influence on the flora and fauna of the world.

This tiny Scottish town is every bibliophile's dream.