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Each crossing incorporates the existing zebra-style design.

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Colorful Crosswalks Paint the Streets of Madrid

This art was made to be stepped all over

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October Skies Herald Meteor Showers Throughout the Month

The Draconid and Orionid meteor showers will streak across night skies this month

Who says you can't buy friendship?

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Toyota Hopes This Adorable Robot Will Make Japan Less Lonely

Meet your $390 best friend

The room has plenty of "Hudson River light" to spark the artist in a lucky bidder and their guest.

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Channel Edward Hopper With a Night in His Bedroom

Stay in the childhood home of one of history’s greatest painters

These seemingly inhabited buildings are actually vacant properties illuminated by the new Breathing Lights project in three New York cities.

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This Art Project Breathes New Life Into Blighted Buildings

<i>Breathing Lights</i> will illuminate hundreds of abandoned structures throughout New York

Scores of lives were lost while building the 816 Nuclear Plant, a long-abandoned nuclear project now open to the public.

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Tour the World’s Biggest Manmade Cave in China

The 816 Nuclear Plant stands as a reminder of a paranoid past

One of the largest sprite bursts to ever be caught on camera flashes in the sky over Puerto Rico, October 1, 2016.

Vibrant Lightning Sprites Spark Above Hurricane Matthew

A photographer’s good eye captures an elusive phenomenon

Whoops.

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People Really Hate a Newly Repaired Stretch of the Great Wall of China

And for good reason

Hello, Aurora.

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Why Iceland’s Biggest City Turned Off Its Lights for One Night

Reykjavik decided to pause in the dark to witness one of Earth’s most beautiful phenomena

The Wavertree, an 1885 tall ship, is back in New York's harbor after a 16-month-long restoration.

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An 1885 Ship Just Sailed Back to New York City

After a 16-month-long overhaul, the Wavertree has been restored to her former glory

Mall rats aren't the only animals to be found in China's gigantic shopping centers.

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Chinese Malls Are Filled With Sad Animals

As cities spread, so do depressing mall zoos

This photo by Girma Berta on Instagram helped win the photographer a $10,000 grant.

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Getty Instagram Grant Winners Document the Drama of the Everyday

From teen moms to slices of street life

Celtic Shores, Nova Scotia.

Canada

Canada Is Building a Trail That Measures Almost 15,000 Miles

In 2017, the world’s longest trail will finally be complete

A late-18th century painting of George and Martha Washington with their adoptive children, George Washington Parke Custis and Nelly Custis, as well as one of their slaves.

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George Washington’s Biracial Family Is Getting New Recognition

The National Park Service is finally acknowledging the first president’s biracial family

A Hindu temple painted yellow.

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This Group Celebrates Kenya’s Religious Diversity by Painting Religious Centers Yellow

Painting for pluralism

How far would you go to spot a bird?

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Extreme Birdwatching Is a Thing, and This Could Be Its Greatest Year Ever

Thank El Niño for a Big Year that's bashing previous records

Zut alors! Up to 36 tons of plastic debris is removed from the Seine each year.

Future of Energy

France Waves "Au Revoir" to Plastic Tableware

If it doesn't come from biological sources, the country's new motto is "just say <i>non</i>"

Oscar Wilde spent two years in what was then called Reading Gaol.

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A British Jail Is Paying Artistic Tribute to Oscar Wilde, its Most Famous Inmate

Patti Smith, Ai Weiwei and others envision what it's like to be <i>Inside</i>

These flowers may look beautiful, but in the imagination of Tamiko Thiel, they've turned hostile due to climate change.

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Augmented Reality Art Imagines What Could Be Seattle’s Weird, Bleak Future

Artist envisions mutant flowers and drone-like seaweed that may one day take over a post-climate change Seattle

George Richmond made this chalk portrait of Brontë when she was 34 years old.

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Visit the Manuscript of 'Jane Eyre' in New York

The handwritten novel is in the United States for the first time—along with an exhibition of artifacts from Charlotte Brontë’s brief and brilliant life

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