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Object Graveyards: 10 More Curious Collections of Crap

Where to toilets, trailers, vending machines and other objects go when they're busted and unwanted? To disturbing and fascinating object cemeteries like these.

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Proof in the Pics: Devastating Images of Eco-Disasters

From skulls of victims of Bhopal's toxic gas leak to the apocalyptic scenes of mountaintop removal mining, these photos will leave you speechless.

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Deception & Trickery in Plants: 12 Masters of Disguise

From orchids that trick bees into copulating with them to leaves with faked disease, these 12 plants skilled in mimicry have evolved to deceive.

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Cycle Crazy: 16 Strange & Amazing Bicycle Concepts

Will the bicycles of the future charge our laptops, harness pedal power or even float on water? These concept designs give us a glimpse at the possibilities.

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Pandas, Otters and Cats: 15 Classic Viral Animal Videos

These unforgettable viral videos show animals at their cutest and at their most human. These are the adorable memes that just keep going and going.

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Fungus Among Us: The Human Body’s Many Bugs

Our bodies contain more bacteria cells than human cells. They're in our mouths and guts, on our skin, and they can both help us and hurt us.

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Nature of Design: Amazing Art Seen From Above

These incredible natural landscape formations and man-made designs resembling faces and figures are made to be seen from airplanes or Google Earth.

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Biological Photography: Magnificent Microscopic & Ultraminiature Photos

Mundane subjects like feathers, human taste buds and a drop of pond water become utterly fascinating and even beautiful when photographed with microscopes.

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Green Goes Gigantic: Huge Public Gardens & Eco-Museums

The world's largest public gardens, greenhouses, zoos and natural history museums offer plenty of space to stretch out and learn about nature.

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Futuristic Vehicles: 15 Concept Cars & Transit Designs

What do the green cars, bikes and mass transit systems of tomorrow look like? They're sleek, futuristic and in some cases, bizarre and impractical.

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15 Rare, Exotic & Amazing Plant Species

From a man-sized flower that smells like rotting corpses to a pitcher plant that eats rats, these 15 plant species are among the most unusual in the world.

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Nice Try: 12 Outrageous Examples of Greenwashing

From an "eco-smart" company placing ads on a Hummer to McDonald's literally painting its logo green, these 15 examples of greenwashing are totally absurd.

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Real-Life Water World: 12 Futuristic Offshore Building Projects

If the worst happens and a deluge forces us to live on the sea, at least these architects have us covered with amazing offshore building concepts.

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The World's Most Absurdly Oversized Food

From a 12,600-calorie gummi bear to a burger that weighs more than a grown man, here are 15 record-breaking food items of ridiculous proportions.

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Crazy for a Cause: 14 Bizarre Green Protests

Some protesters will do anything to call attention to their causes, like skinning and eating a cat or putting a dead whale in the street.

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Surreal Science: 10 Sensational New Discoveries

Telepathy helmets, spray-on solar cells and seeing through a tooth: they may seem unlikely or even impossible, but these are real recent scientific discoveries.

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13 of Nature’s Most Disgusting Parasites

Horror movies are made of these: shockingly gross, bizarre parasites that will have you scratching yourself in paranoia.

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Don’t Look Down! Terrifyingly Tall Towers & Lookouts

Afraid of heights? Even the photos of some of these insanely tall towers, lookouts and glass balconies will make your head swim.

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Nature’s Assassins: Pretty but Deadly Plants

From a tree that can make you go blind to pretty flowers that can make you keel over in minutes, these plants are not as innocent as they seem.

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Vertical Vegetation: Living Walls, Moss Graffiti & More

Live plants bring aesthetic and practical benefits to vertical surfaces in the form of vertical gardens, moss graffiti, vine curtains and living walls.

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