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The book arcade
Around the end of the 19th century, Melbourne, Australia, hosted one of the biggest - and certainly the most carnivalesque - bookstores in the world: Cole's Book Arcade.
Wordless novels and motionless movies
Novels have words and films move. But some creators have resisted even these conventions, creating novels without writing and films without motion.
Buddha’s teeth
After Gautama Buddha died (around 500 years BCE) he was cremated and his ashes divided up and distributed to stupas across northern India. But some relics purportedly survived, including a surprising number of teeth.
From the archives: Roads
The very first spaghetti junction; the borders where you must switch which side of the road you drive on; the countries that switched which side of the road everyone drove on; and the arterial road that crosses an airport runway.