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Crime

National Wildlife Property Repository.

Commerce City, Colorado

National Wildlife Property Repository

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

The historical marker on the side of the highway.

Port Royal, Virginia

Assassin's End

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

Monument to the Shootout.

Bonnie and Clyde Dexter Shootout Marker

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

Knife Angel.

Knife Angel

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

A section of the mosaic, which was 4 by 4 feet.

Found: A Mosaic From Caligula's Ceremonial Ship, Turned Into a Coffee Table

It's now being sent back to Italy.

Sarah Laskow October 20, 2017

Freshly made fajitas sitting atop a table.

South Texas Man’s $1.2 Million Fajita Heist Foiled After 9 Years

Gilberto Escamilla clandestinely ordered fajitas through his government job, then re-sold them.

Paula Mejia October 19, 2017

<em>Kitchen</em>, c. 1944–46.

31 days of halloween

The Grim Crime-Scene Dollhouses Made by the ‘Mother of Forensics’

They're perfectly to scale, and all based on real cases.

Anika Burgess October 6, 2017

Five of the seven black cats are still reportedly missing. Police are on the case.

31 days of halloween

The Mysterious Disappearance of 7 Black Cats From a Pair of English Villages

Coincidence? Observational bias? Or something more sinister?

Natasha Frost October 4, 2017

Los Angeles, California

The LAPD Kōban

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

Chateau de Machecoul

Machecoul, France

Château de Machecoul

The ruins of a medieval castle linked to the murderous French lord that inspired the famous legend of Bluebeard.

Oyster pirates illegally dredging under the cover of night.

The Notorious Oyster Pirates of Chesapeake Bay

They were the colorful villains in a conflict that lasted almost a century.

Kerry Wolfe September 28, 2017

Frederick Deeming death mask

Melbourne, Australia

Victoria Police Museum

Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.

Female elephants, who usually travel with calves, are far more likely to adopt a new, risk-averse behavior.

When Under Threat From Poaching, Elephants Change Their Travel Habits

An amazing adaptation with a sad cause.

Natasha Frost September 13, 2017

Quedlinburg Abbey.

Quedlinburg, Germany

Quedlinburg Abbey

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

Plaque at the location.

London, England

Meeksville Sound Plaque

The home studio one of Britain's first independent record producers is also the site of a murder-suicide.

The walls of the catacombs are mostly made of limestone, an easy material for wine thieves to bore through.

Thieves Infiltrated the Paris Catacombs to Steal $300,000 of Wine

An underground oenological heist.

Natasha Frost August 30, 2017

The memorial.

Forest Park, Illinois

Haymarket Martyrs Monument

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

The spit stone in Bremen.

Bremen, Germany

Spuckstein Gesche Gottfried

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.