Set your watch to something slower: a museum machine growing a stalactite until the year 2496, a covered wooden bridge still carrying cars after nearly two centuries, a 2,171-mile walk across six countries, and an Irish garden built around a man who became Japanese.
A basement museum machine growing a stalactite-stalagmite pair over 500 years
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The last wooden covered bridge in Valais still open to cars, beneath a medieval castle
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The Wolf Trail via AFAR
A newly opened 2,171-mile thru-hike from the Baltic to the Adriatic across six countries
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One of only two Japanese gardens in Ireland, honoring a writer who bridged two cultures
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