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Why Is El Salvador The Murder Capital Of The World?

How did El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America, wind up with the highest per capita murder rate on Earth?

By Richard Stockton • Nov 3, 2016

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Why Is El Salvador The Murder Capital Of The World?

How did El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America, wind up with the highest per capita murder rate on Earth?

By Richard Stockton • November 3, 2016

31 Rousing Photos Of The French Resistance In Action

These vivid images reveal how the French Resistance fought back against the Nazis and helped make France free once more.

By Elisabeth Sherman • Oct 31, 2016

31 Rousing Photos Of The French Resistance In Action

These vivid images reveal how the French Resistance fought back against the Nazis and helped make France free once more.

By Elisabeth Sherman • October 31, 2016

The Day of The Dead’s Rich Traditions In 33 Dazzling Photos

The visuals behind celebrations for the Day of the Dead are dazzling, but its rich traditions are just as fascinating.

By All That's Interesting • Oct 29, 2016

The Day of The Dead’s Rich Traditions In 33 Dazzling Photos

The visuals behind celebrations for the Day of the Dead are dazzling, but its rich traditions are just as fascinating.

By All That's Interesting • October 29, 2016

22 Stunning Photos Of Abandoned Factories Given New Life

Factories, grain elevators, warehouses, power plants — reminders of our industrial inheritance are all around us. But what happens to those buildings after the final shift ends and the lights go out for the last time? Sometimes the buildings remain abandoned, left to crumble and sink back into the Earth....

By All That's Interesting • Oct 26, 2016

22 Stunning Photos Of Abandoned Factories Given New Life

Factories, grain elevators, warehouses, power plants — reminders of our industrial inheritance are all around us. But what happens to those buildings after the final shift ends and the lights go out for the last time? Sometimes the buildings remain abandoned, left to crumble and sink back into the Earth....

By All That's Interesting • October 26, 2016

Secret Nazi Base Just Found All The Way In The Arctic

The recently uncovered base was used by the Nazi's as a weather station.

By All That's Interesting • Oct 24, 2016

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Secret Nazi Base Just Found All The Way In The Arctic

The recently uncovered base was used by the Nazi's as a weather station.

By All That's Interesting • October 24, 2016

Back From The Brink: 1990s New York In 51 Intense Photos

The 1990s in New York started as the city's worst decade yet ended far better than expected. These surprising photos reveal how.

By John Kuroski • Oct 19, 2016

Back From The Brink: 1990s New York In 51 Intense Photos

The 1990s in New York started as the city's worst decade yet ended far better than expected. These surprising photos reveal how.

By John Kuroski • October 19, 2016

Inside Oregon’s “White Utopia” Origins

The state is considered a hub for progressive thought, but does history back up this claim?

By Elisabeth Sherman • Oct 19, 2016

Inside Oregon’s “White Utopia” Origins

The state is considered a hub for progressive thought, but does history back up this claim?

By Elisabeth Sherman • October 19, 2016

How The U.S. Government Has Supported The Deaths Of Hundreds Of Thousands

The U.S. has aligned itself with some truly brutal regimes in order to promote and protect its own interests. For thousands around the world, that alliance has proven fatal.

By Richard Stockton • Oct 18, 2016

How The U.S. Government Has Supported The Deaths Of Hundreds Of Thousands

The U.S. has aligned itself with some truly brutal regimes in order to promote and protect its own interests. For thousands around the world, that alliance has proven fatal.

By Richard Stockton • October 18, 2016

In The ’70s, Halloween Looked Like This For New York City’s Kids

Photographer Larry Racioppo is a people person. “I interact with people, I photograph them head on. As much as I can, I bring them back photos when I know I’m going to see them again,” he told ATI over the phone. Racioppo began photographing Halloween revelers around his native New...

By All That's Interesting • Oct 17, 2016

In The ’70s, Halloween Looked Like This For New York City’s Kids

Photographer Larry Racioppo is a people person. “I interact with people, I photograph them head on. As much as I can, I bring them back photos when I know I’m going to see them again,” he told ATI over the phone. Racioppo began photographing Halloween revelers around his native New...

By All That's Interesting • October 17, 2016

39 Psychedelic Photos Of Pre-Revolution Russia

From 1909 to 1915, photographer and chemist Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii traveled around the Russian Empire, documenting life in its most rural corners. He photographed farms, small villages, and churches, capturing the daily lives of the people he encountered along the way. And Gorskii didn’t travel for the sake of travel,...

By Elisabeth Sherman • Oct 14, 2016

39 Psychedelic Photos Of Pre-Revolution Russia

From 1909 to 1915, photographer and chemist Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii traveled around the Russian Empire, documenting life in its most rural corners. He photographed farms, small villages, and churches, capturing the daily lives of the people he encountered along the way. And Gorskii didn’t travel for the sake of travel,...

By Elisabeth Sherman • October 14, 2016