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Meet the Man Who Sets America’s Living Rooms on Fire

Today we visit the ATF Fire Research Laboratory where investigators recreate arson attacks and analyze burn patterns. Read more about John Allen and his work at the world's largest fire research laboratory.

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  Wild Life Week: Rae Wynn-Grant and the Bear (Classic)

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  Wild Life Week: Why Would a Researcher Pull a Lion’s Tail?

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  Wild Life Week: Celery Makes A Nature Documentary

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  Wild Life Week: The Female Alphas of Yellowstone

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  Wild Life Week: Exploring Our Alien Planet with Cara Giaimo

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  Ottoman Bird Palaces (Classic)

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  The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

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  Auctioning off Roadside America

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  Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: Sa Cabaneta & Provincetown

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  The Wimbledon Queue

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  Seven Keys Lodge (Classic)

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  Are Cemeteries…Dying?

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  District Six

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  Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: To the Swimmer in the Borneo Rainforest

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  Oh, the Places We Can’t Go

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  Tell Us Your Story: Places To Remember