Landmarks

THINGS

The world is filled with spectacular, bizarre, and iconic buildings—but these structures often have a surprisingly dark history.

PLACES

Visitors often imagine the Eiffel Tower as an immovable silhouette, unchanged through the shifting seasons. Yet on the city’s hottest days, the structure behaves in a way that defies those assumptions. Subtle movements ripple through its iron framework to reveal a quiet dialogue between the monument and the intense Parisian sun. These changes invite a deeper look into how heat interacts with metal, which hints that even a landmark of this scale doesn’t stand entirely still. Instead, it adapts to the environment in ways that most observers never notice. It shifts just enough to show that nature always leaves its mark.

PLACES

Correction Notice: Article originally stated Big Thunder Mountain Railroad require 4,675 pounds of mud to construct. Correct to 4,675 tons of mud."Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy"Who doesn't want...

THINGS

Aside from an 80-foot waterslide and an Olympic sized swimming pool, Drake’s home also features a mechanical bull.

THINGS

The MahaNakhon in Bangkok was made to appear as though it is pixelated.

EDITORIAL

Canada once boasted the world's biggest mall. It was always my goal in life to visit it—but today, the mall has a complicated history.



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