World of Weird, World of Mystery

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• “Artists work between heartbeats to produce an unusual masterpiece: a flea clad in golden horseshoes.”

  

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  The men who shoe fleas

  BBC Travel - Sharon McDonnell

  Artists work between heartbeats to produce an unusual masterpiece: a flea clad in golden horseshoes. In a supersized world, Prague’s Museum of Miniatures thinks small. Very small. In millimetres, in fact. A short walk from Prague Castle, this odd museum houses wonders invisible to the naked eye. …

• “A 3.8-mile section of Oregon’s coast is named in remembrance of an elderly, blind Native American woman who was forced to walk for days over the sharp rocks with bare feet.”

  

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  The craggy coast with a dark past

  BBC Travel - Britany Robinson

  A 3.8-mile section of Oregon’s coast is named in remembrance of an elderly, blind Native American woman who was forced to walk for days over the sharp rocks with bare feet. If you listen closely, the wind whispers with stories along the Oregon Coast Trail. A hiker’s instinct is to watch their feet, …

• “The Huaringas, a complex of 14 sacred lagoons in the mountainous Peruvian province of Huancabamba, is renowned for its ancient tradition of mystical healing and shamanism.”

  

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  The witch doctors of northern Peru

  BBC Travel - Amanda Proença Santos

  The Huaringas, a complex of 14 sacred lagoons in the mountainous Peruvian province of Huancabamba, is renowned for its ancient tradition of mystical healing and shamanism.

• “On Canada’s bleak Beechey Island are the remains of four men who died in the 19th Century. They weren’t famous in life – but their deaths sparked 165 years of searching for answers.”

  

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  The island of lost explorers

  BBC Travel - Sarah Hewitt

  On Canada’s bleak Beechey Island are the remains of four men who died in the 19th Century. They weren’t famous in life – but their deaths sparked 165 years of searching for answers. Through icy rain and mist, I could just make out the headstones of the graves on the bleak shores of Beechey Island. …

• “The cannabis plant’s role in Hindu mythology has authorities turning a blind eye to India’s drug shops.”

  

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  The intoxicating drug of an Indian god

  BBC Travel - Charukesi Ramadurai

  The cannabis plant’s role in Hindu mythology has authorities turning a blind eye to India’s drug shops. I made my way down Varanasi’s winding, narrow alleyways, bound by walls stained with the distinctive red marks of paan (a leaf often used to flavour chewing tobacco) spat out by hundreds of …

• “More than 9,000km from the motherland, the Falkland Islands’ capital serves up everything you'd expect from a trip to England, from traditional pubs to iconic red telephone boxes.”

  

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  A town that's more British than Britain

  BBC Travel - Lane Nieset

  More than 9,000km from the motherland, the Falkland Islands’ capital serves up everything you'd expect from a trip to England, from traditional pubs to iconic red telephone boxes.