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The indoor suburban shopping center is a special kind of abandoned place.

The quintessential Roman spectacle, originally a way to honor the dead, was not Roman in origin.

Was it an elaborate scam or a highbrow battle of wits?

From Atlantic City to high fashion to Karl Marx, the most recognizable board game has had serious cultural impact.

Taking holiday a moment to appreciate how Earth got its water—and eggnog and mulled wine.

For two decades, fans have been waking up on Christmas morning to custom, obsession-feeding gifts from strangers.

These socially connected, multimedia 18th-century assemblages were more than the sum of their parts.

From the Polish embassy in Switzerland came a campaign that spared many from Nazi extermination.

A subtle, if temporary, change to one of the world’s biggest websites underscored a modern triumph of paleontology, and how we understand life on Earth.

Evidence deep within the planet suggests that remnants of Earth's catastrophic twin might still lie below.

What a strange spate of "gas attacks" tells us about what was really lurking in mid-century America.

I made a bunch of linguists listen to this social media phenomenon and tell me what’s going on.