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By JB Sanders<\/p>\n

Scorching July…<\/p>\n

Weird Things in Urban Environments<\/a><\/strong>
\nWhat weird things, I hear you ask? There’s the over 500 dogs living in the Moscow subway system, or the City Below Kansas City (businesses and storage, mostly) in the old limestone mines, or Thames Town, which is a completely artificial English town just outside Shanghai. Plenty of urban weird to go around. How about the town in Pennsylvania that has been on fire since 1962, and will probably keep burning for another 250 years? Or the abandoned island city of Gunkanjima? It looks a lot like that dream city from Inception, actually.<\/p>\n

The Right Way to Rehabilitate a Quarry<\/a><\/strong>
\nThose folks in China sure know how to revitalize an abandoned quarry: build a nearly billion-dollar hotel\/resort inside it. With a 100m waterfall visible from all the rooms. Extra bonus points: looks like a James Bond villain’s lair<\/p>\n

That’s Not a Train Set, This is a Train Set<\/a><\/strong>
\nEver wonder what the greatest model train setup in the world would look like? Think you’ve already seen it? Nope.<\/p>\n

Sci-Fi Cooking<\/strong>
\nFirst episode of this YouTube series? Cooking Klingon Gagh and Blood Wine.<\/p>\n