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35 Acres of Weirdness at the Volo Auto Museum

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Volo —No, you won’t find Pee-wee Herman’s bike in the basement of the Alamo. That’s because it’s at the Volo Auto Museum, a time capsule of all things — well, just plain all things. Here, five highlights. Oprah’s “Biggest Splurge Ever” The talk show host gifted herself a $365,000 1996 Bentley Azure on her 42nd birthday so … Read more

Have Some Art With Your Particle Physics at Fermilab

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Batavia —Ever wondered about the artistic possibilities of advanced accelerator technology, dark matter, and colliding neutrinos? No? Well, the people at the Fermilab Art Gallery have. The exhibition space at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has been showing the work of artists with backgrounds in science — or those with practices conceptually linked to science — for nearly 40 … Read more

A Solemn Sanctuary

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Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto Bartlett —Don’t get too distracted by the topiary animals or actual peacocks casually roaming the grounds: The real stunners of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir are the carvings on the Hindu temple’s façade, created by roughly 3,000 artisans in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan. All told, the massive, multidomed place of … Read more

Five Serious Polish Deli Snacks

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Oak Lawn Kabanosy at Joe & Frank’s Your beef jerky wishes it could be this super-savory pork sausage, cured in the back of the store. $5.29 a pound   Bloomingdale Pierogi at Signature Euro Deli With skin so thin it borders on translucent, Signature’s dumplings pop in your mouth like potato-bacon caviar. $10 for a … Read more