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The monument protects an array of endemic, threatened and endangered species, including the sperm whale.

Obama Declares the First Atlantic Ocean National Marine Monument

With the announcement of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, Obama solidifies his legacy as an ocean guardian

A rendering of the 10-ton block of ice.

Cool Finds

Watch a 10-Ton Ice Cube Melt on a Seattle Square

It’s a different kind of block party

"Shotgun Seamstress"

Cool Finds

The New York Public Library’s Radical Zine Collection Is Now on Display

Check out pamphlets from people like Noam Chomsky and Mumia Abu-Jamal

Kayak may be the best way to explore the climate change memorial of the future.

Anthropocene

What Will the Memorials of the Future Look Like?

From underwater trees to mechanical parrots, the memorials of tomorrow don’t look much like the ones that exist today

The design of the 2016 Brussels Flower Carpet was based off of Japanese patterns.

Cool Finds

Don’t Miss These Dazzling, Iconic Flower Festivals

No matter the time of year, it’s always time for a flower festival

Could Taiwan be your next destination?

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This Is the World’s Best Place for Expats

Taiwan wins big in survey of over 14,000 expatriates

That's not an art forger—it's a copyist.

Cool Finds

What’s With the People With Easels in Art Museums?

Inside the longest-running program at the MET

Philadelphia's Solari board is just one casualty of digital technology.

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Now Departing: Some of America’s Most Iconic Train Signs

Amtrak will demolish departure boards in Philadelphia and New York

Manspreading, NYC, 1947 Artist: Amelia Opdyke Jones New York Transit Museum Collection

Cool Finds

New Exhibit Shows Manspreading Has Been Taking up Subway Space for Decades

Vintage ads show struggles with transit etiquette

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 Photograph by Ansel Adams Vintage gelatin silver print Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona

Cool Finds

New Exhibition Shares Rare Ansel Adams Photos of the American West

See breathtaking early works by the iconic photographer

Papahānaumokuākea may be a mouthful, but now it's the world's largest marine protected area.

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President Obama Just Created the World’s Largest Marine Protected Area

Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is now twice the size of Texas

Langston Hughes' Harlem brownstone: Cultural remnant or great place for a Starbucks?

Trending Today

The Fight to Preserve Langston Hughes’ Harlem Home From Gentrification

A new kind of Harlem renaissance is threatening the home of one of America’s greatest poets

Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park is one of the parks featured in the virtual reality tours.

Virtual Travel

Explore Some of America’s Greatest National Parks in Virtual Reality

The next best thing to celebrating the Centennial in person

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine protects over 87,000 acres of land.

Trending Today

Maine Just Got the Nation’s Newest National Monument

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument could one day become a national park

From Slavery to Mass Incarceration will be a museum dedicated to the history of racial injustice in America, and will be located just steps from a site where slaves were auctioned off.

Cool Finds

Inside the Upcoming Memorial and Museum Dedicated to Lynching Victims

Spanning slavery to segregation to mass incarceration

Jackson Pollock Blue poles, 1952 Enamel and aluminium paint with glass on canvas, 212.1 x 488.9 cm National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Cool Finds

Why London’s New Abstract Expressionism Show Is a Big Deal

It’s a survey of luminaries from Pollock to De Kooning

The newly opened glass bridge in Zhangjiajie Forest Park

Cool Finds

Gulp: The World’s Highest, Longest Glass Bridge Opens in China

The new bridge in Hunan’s Zhangjiajie Forest Park overlooks the mountains that inspired Avatar

Gotta catch 'em all.

Forget Bowling: Taiwan Has Shrimping Alleys Instead

Catch-your-own shrimp bars are one of Taiwan’s tastiest trends

Lake Burlinskoye in June, 2016.

Cool Finds

Summer Heat Turns This Siberian Lake Bright Pink

And it’s not the only one

The sloop Washington, which sank in Lake Ontario in 1803

Cool Finds

Explorers Find Second Oldest Shipwreck in the Great Lakes

The merchant sloop Washington went down in a storm in 1803 on Lake Ontario

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