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  • The World's Largest Camera Is On Wheels
    Photographer Shaun Irving has transformed a truck into the world's largest, mobile camera.
  • Viewers Make Their Pix In Nat Geo's Photo Contest
    The winners from National Geographic's International Photography Contest will be announced in early December, but viewers have been voting on their favorites for the past few weeks. View a selection of a "viewer's choice" photographs.
  • Tim Burton's Drawings On Display
    By Claire O'Neill Tim Burton is probably the only person who could get away with using a monster's mouth as the entrance to an art exhibition. You know him for his films Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Of all film director-pr...
  • Judith Fox Turns A Close-Up Lens On Alzheimer's
    Judith Fox's new book of photographs is an intimate portrait of a loved one's submergence into Alzheimer's. <em>I Still Do</em> is a chronicle of her husband's journey with the disease.
  • Cuba Was A Canvas For Artist Belkis Ayon
    When Ayon committed suicide in 1999, she was just 32 years old &mdash; and already a star in the Cuban art world. A major exhibit of her work now under way in Havana has revived an enduring mystery in Cuba &mdash; about art, African myths and the shadowy, all-male secret society known as Abakua.
  • Meet The Next Best Street Photographer: Google
    Has Google joined the ranks of the best street photographers? Jon Rafman might argue so, and he has a collection of Google Street View photos to make the case.
  • Parking Garages: A Multilevel History
    "House of Cars," an exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., traces the origins and design challenges of the places we store our cars. While it's unclear who created the first parking garage, the exhibit highlights some little-known and quirky facts about these structures that dot the American landscape.
  • Mystery Ghost Photos
    By Claire O'Neill How do you think these ghostly photographs were made? This slideshow requires version 9 or higher of the Adobe Flash Player. Get the latest Flash Player. 'xrays' ...
  • Stone Spire Forest In The Middle Of Nowhere
    There's a crazy landform in Madagascar called a tsingy, which, euphemistically translated from Malagasy, means "where one cannot walk barefoot." It's basically a treacherous forest of limestone spires that could impale anything, and cut straight thro...
  • Beijing's Underground Music Scene
    By Claire O'Neill&#13; &#13; For Americans, the days of extreme cultural revolution have arguably subsided. The heyday of rock has come and gone, as have new wave and punk &mdash; even post-punk &mdash; and grunge. So it seems like we've gotten a lot of musical subversi...