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Now's a great time to stock up on spices and upgrade your kitchen. This kit contains 24 certified organic and fair trade spices in stylish magnetic jars.

Kit Sudol Director, Audience Development
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Gneiss Spice: Everything Spice Kit

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This stainless steel cocktail set from Cocktail Kingdom contains: one Seamless Mixing Glass, one Hoffman® Barspoon, one Japanese Style Jigger, one set of Koriko® Weighted Shaking Tins, and one Koriko® Hawthorne Strainer.

Cocktail Kingdom Essential Cocktail Set

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This otherworldly collection of Soviet space-race graphics takes readers on a cosmic adventure through Cold War-era Russia.

Winnie Lee Visuals Editor
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Soviet Space Graphics: Cosmic Visions from the USSR

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Internationally-renowned photographer Matt Lambros traveled across the United States to document the country's abandoned theaters—from the supposedly haunted Pacific Warner Theatre in Los Angeles to the Orpheum Theatre in New Bedford, MA. 

After the Final Curtain: America's Abandoned Theaters

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If there’s nothing more terrifying to you than a blank page, and plain old horizontal lines feel more like prison than prompt, try this notebook of unusual graph paper. Guaranteed to shift your perspective with each new page.

Grids & Guides: A Notebook for Visual Thinkers

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This delightful, debut children's book by former Atlas Obscura staff writer Sarah Laskow answers important unicorn questions like why are unicorns associated with rainbows, why do some unicorns have wings, and—of course—are unicorns real? 

The Very Short, Entirely True History of Unicorns

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From internet phenomenon to giant plush toy to a spot in your bedroom, this cuddly, stuffed crustacean is twenty-thousand leagues of cuteness.

Giant Isopod Stuffed Toy

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Also known as Detroit Agate, Fordite is layer upon layer of automobile paint "overspray," polished to a gem-like state, and then, in this case, fashioned into jewelry.

Fordite Jewelry

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With a bit of time and patience, you can have your own miniature wind-powered robot just like the large scale ones made by Dutch artist Theo Jansen.

Larissa Hayden
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Strandbeest Model Kit

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Sturdy and squat, the Brown Betty teapot is a British classic. This redesigned take is the result of years of research by ceramicist Ian Mcintyre, who reincorporated long-lost features such as a no-drip spout and a locking lid. 

Anne Ewbank Senior Associate Editor, Gastro Obscura
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Ian McIntyre Redesign Brown Betty Teapot

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