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Who's a Yuppie Twit?

Jeweler Harry Winston donated the famous Hope Diamond—the largest-known deep blue diamond in the world—to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958. It arrived in a plain brown package by registered mail, insured for one million dollars. Surrounded by 16 white pear-shaped and cushion-cut diamonds and hanging from a chain with 45 diamonds, the rare gem attracts 6 million visitors a year to the Natural History Museum.

The Hope Diamond

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The End of the Road

In Idaho's Clearwater National Forest, old logging roads that ruin streams are getting the axe

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Good-bye, Rhode Island

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Inexplicable Moments

Strange things happen at this wacky crossroads of the hopelessly alien-addled in the Nevada desert

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Quicksand? Don't Sink, Just "Dance" Across It

Fort Jefferson is no longer in use as a military facility and is currently part of the Dry Tortugas National Park.

A Jewel in the Dry Tortugas

Barren, birdy and beautiful, Florida's remote Fort Jefferson has tales, terns and not much fresh water

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Walking the Grizzlies' Road, Yellowstone to the Yukon

Trekking 2,000 miles across rugged wilderness, biologist Karsten Heuer has braved bears and avalanches on behalf of a bold conservation initiative

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Renovating Washington's Monument, Designer-Style

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The Ups and Downs of Highway 1

California's coast road offers a beautiful drive—but it keeps falling apart

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Good Days at Black Rock

A once quiet desert in Nevada has become a center for supersonic cars, rockets with big plans and one of the most freewheeling festivals anywhere

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In Arizona, It's an All-Night Party for the Stars

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The Circus Is Coming!

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Little Engines That Still Can!

Across America, short-line freight trains are pulling their weight

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Splash & Spectacle

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Times Square Reborn

Coming at you: Manhattan's town square is spruced up for the 21st century

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Smithsonian Perspectives

The Smithsonian takes its experts and scholars on the road in its new Voices of Discovery program

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To Build a Bridge, You Must Cross Troubled Waters

When St. Paul needed to replace a bridge at a historic crossing of the Mississippi, just about everyone in the city had an opinion

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Making History by Rising to New Heights

The people of Valmeyer, Illinois, awash in water three years ago, have built a whole new hometown, this time above the flood line

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The Nation's Treasures Take to the Highways for a 12-City Tour

The assignment: pick the best of 140 million items, pack them (many are priceless and irreplaceable) and truck them across the USA

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