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

  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. After entering the room filled with microscopes, I found a desert scene of camels and palms inside the …

• “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

  If you listen closely, the wind whispers with stories along the Oregon Coast Trail. A hiker’s instinct is to watch their feet, scanning the ground for the next step, making subtle recalibrations to balance and stride. But here, surrounded by old growth trees that have seen more than I can imagine, …

• “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

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• “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

  Through icy rain and mist, I could just make out the headstones of the graves on the bleak shores of Beechey Island. Grey rocks, grey mountains, grey mist; it was a lonely resting place, without even the comfort of vegetation. Lying here are the remains of four men who died in the mid-19th Century. …

• “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

  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 passers-by. I was headed to one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, known as Godowlia Chowk, in search of the …

• “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

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