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A picture is worth a thousand words, but not all
pictures are created equal. From the frightening to the humorous to the
bizarre and enlightening, we present the most popular All That Is
Interesting pictures:
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The Town Where Everyone Wears A Gas Mask details life in Miyakejima,
Japan, where an active volcano had spewed poisonous gas for the last two
decades. Rather than leave, the 3,000 inhabitants decided to wear gas
masks 24/7 so they could remain on the island.
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Who knew that a) you could get behind a
frozen waterfall and b) they would have such magnificent colors?
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The Nullarbor Cliffs literally feel like
the end of the earth, though they are really just the end of Australia.
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Afghanistan in the 1960s is a staggering photo essay on what life was
once like in Afghanistan.
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The story of August Landmasser is amazing as it is tragic. Landmasser
fell in love with a Jewish woman who, before they could marry, was sent
to a concentration camp. Before he would be sent to a labor camp, this
picture captured Landmasser refusing to partake in the Nazi salute
during a public rally in 1936.
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We won’t be able to do this article full justice, so you should read and
see the phenomenal urban design of Eixample, Barcelona.
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Once numbering in the hundreds of millions in the United States (that’s
right, hundreds of millions), bison were hunted down to a mere thousand
by 1890. Most of the story of how this happened can be inferred by the
picture above.
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The Haunted Hotel Of Colombia
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Blue Dragon River
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One of the most popular posts on All That Is Interesting, the above
picture captures the astonishing differences on both sides of the border
between the United States and Mexico. |
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