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Malini Angelica: Inside Diocletian's Palace and the Dalmatian Islands That Made Croatia Impossible to Leave

August 25, 2026

Inside a Roman emperor's retirement palace in Split, a nearly 4,000-year-old Egyptian sphinx stands in

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MrBeast: MrBeast Spent Months Building a City Full of Traps to Outrun 100 Real Cops for $500,000

August 24, 2026

MrBeast spent months building a city full of hidden cameras, booby traps, and sewer tunnels

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Beast Philanthropy: Beast Philanthropy Rebuilt a Zambian Village from the Ground Up, and One Girl's Recovery Changed Everything

August 24, 2026

Five years after moving to a rural Zambian village with four adopted children, Dora is

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Malini Angelica: Montenegro Is Europe's Best-Kept Coastal Secret and Malini Angelica Just Blew Its Cover

August 24, 2026

A local fisherman pulled an octopus from the Adriatic near Queen's Cove as Malini Angelica

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Xavier Rudd: Xavier Rudd's 'Part of Life' Is the Pep Talk You Never Got from Your Dad

August 23, 2026

Xavier Rudd's 'Part of Life' delivers the kind of plain, warm, and unflinching advice that

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August 23, 2026

Shaboozey's 'Good News' finds its footing in a specific kind of exhaustion: not the dramatic

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World Wild Hearts: The 10 Most Beautiful Places to Visit in Madagascar, Ranked by Two Travelers Who Spent Three Weeks There

August 23, 2026

Zac and Ine of World Wild Hearts spent three weeks crossing Madagascar and came back

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Ryan Shirley: Ryan Shirley Ranks the Top 10 Places to Visit in the Seychelles and the Results Are Stunning

August 23, 2026

Ryan Shirley biked to the most famous beach in the Seychelles at sunset and thought

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Ryan Shirley: Ryan Shirley Ranked Every One of His 100 Favorite Places in Europe and Mont St. Michel Came Out on Top

August 23, 2026

Ryan Shirley spent a decade visiting 100 places across Europe and ranked them all, from

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Top Gear Classic: Top Gear's Most Gloriously Chaotic Budget Car Tests Ever Put on Film

August 23, 2026

Jeremy Clarkson drove a 100cc microcar onto one of Britain's busiest dual carriageways at 34

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Everything Explained: How Black Rock City Gets Built From a Single Gold Stake in 29 Days

August 23, 2026

On August 1st, a 12-pound sledgehammer drove a gold-painted stake into an empty Nevada desert,

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Huw Richards: This Allotment on Cool Oak Lane Has a 40-Metre Edible Tunnel You Can Walk Through

August 22, 2026

On a 40-metre allotment on Cool Oak Lane in Barnet, a gardener has built an

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