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This weighted blanket offers a natural way to decompress, provide comfort, and calm your body for a restful night.  

Weighted Blanket

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Learn the delicate art of embroidery with this introductory kit, complete with three seasonal patterns. 

Embroidery Starter Kit

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Make your own candles with this DIY kit, complete with dried flowers, essential oils, soy wax, and mason jars. 

Candle Making Kit with Dried Flowers

$33
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Stay busy with this original 1000-piece puzzle of Cannon Beach—a coastal town in Oregon known for its long, sandy shore and sea stacks like Haystack Rock, which was famously featured in The Goonies.

Cannon Beach 1000 Piece Puzzle

$50
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From Atlas Obscura Trip leader Lucas Bustamante comes this field guide filled with images, maps, and information about the 58 species of reptiles of the Galápagos Islands

Reptiles of the Galápagos: Life on the Enchanted Islands

$29
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Straight from one of the world's greatest magic shops, Tannen's Magic Shop in NYzc, this elegant deck is not only smooth and durable but the design just screams, "MYSTERY!"

Eric Grundhauser Senior Producer
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Tannen's Signature Deck

$12
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Of the many Albert Einstein action figures and bobbleheads out there—and there are many—this is by far the cutest version of everyone's favorite scientist.

Albert Einstein Historical Figure

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Everything you need—except the wood sticks—to build your own igloo, fruit cage, or other domed structure of up to five meters in diameter.

Geodesic Dome Kit

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This 24-hour video of construction workers continually rebuilding the time out of lumber and bolts is a mesmerizing piece of art. I took an old smartphone, installed this app, and now have a beautifully strange clock on my wall.

Joshua Foer Co-Founder
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Standard Time App

$10
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Little space gems, flecks of Viking axes, and bits of a space station can all be yours with this tiny museum for your mantle.

Eric Grundhauser Senior Producer
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Mini Museum

$299
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Puzzle boxes are one of my favorites things. I want to be buried in a puzzle box. This one not only looks beautiful and shows off some of its incredible gears, but you even get to build it yourself! 

Eric Grundhauser Senior Producer
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Mechanical Wooden Puzzle Box

$45
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Hiding a pickle ornament on the Christmas tree is a popular tradition in the American Midwest. The origins of the Christmas pickle are murky: Some say it's a German practice (yet few Germans know of it), while others say it stems from a legend in which St. Nick saved two...

Christmas Pickle Ornament

$7
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Brew some tea with the unicorn of the sea! Simply fill the infuser with your favorite loose leaf tea and perch it on your cup to steep. 

Tao Tao Holmes Director of Special Projects, Experiences
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Narwhal Tea Infuser

$12
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Take a break with your neighboring desk mate. This tiny tetherball set is accompanied by an illustrated mini-book filled with the history, trivia, and rules of the popular pastime.

Tao Tao Holmes Director of Special Projects, Experiences
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Desktop Tetherball

$10
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I get my best ideas in the shower. From now on, I'll use this waterproof notepad to write them down.

Alexa Harrison Public Relations Director
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Waterproof Notepad

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When I was a kid, I used to charge my older cousins fees for returning borrowed books late. This personal library kit would have made cataloging my collection a whole lot easier.

Jordan Schultz Director of Marketing & Audience
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Personal Library Kit

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Hide your most important secrets deep in your bookcase. If you're a bibliophile, this book safe will fool the most cunning of thieves.

Jordan Schultz Director of Marketing & Audience
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Book Diversion Safe

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“Who doesn't want a dose of existentialism with their egg nog?” — Tamara, Seattle, Washington

Existentialist Holiday Ornaments

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“I love using them, they're like a spa day compressed into 20 minutes. Why not share the love by giving them as gifts? I use them as stocking stuffers for family, and to decompress from holiday madness.” — Margaux M., Hoffman Estates, Illinois

10 Days of Sheet Masks

$25
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The Spill Not is both an ingenious demonstration of centripetal force and a foolproof way for a drunkard to carry around his preferred beverage.

Joshua Foer Co-Founder
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The Incredible Spill Not

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I recently received this as a gift. My friend just told me she'd gotten me a notebook, so it was a very cool and startling surprise to be blinded by light when I opened it. I felt like I'd found a magic artifact.

Abi Inman Senior Audience Development Manager
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Wooden Folding Book Light

$30
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Got dirty hands? Not anymore you don't. A perfect stocking-stuffer for a two-fisted attack on grime.

Tyler Cole VP, Community
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Lava Heavy-Duty Hand Cleaner

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If there's anything can be more divisive than licorice itself, it's likely licorice-flavored toothpaste. What's not debatable, however, is that this beautifully-packaged Italian import will look great next to your bathroom sink.

Tyler Cole VP, Community
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Marvis Licorice Mint Toothpaste

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Unsettlingly realistic and featuring posable feelers, this mask is sure to brighten (or ruin) everyone's day.

Banana Slug Mask

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Spend a peaceful minute watching ferrous sand, glass, gravity, and magnetism combine to form a spectacle of stalagmites that shifts with each passing second.

Magnetic Hourglass

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The packaging of this Svensk Dröm (or Swedish Dream) Sea Salt Soap is so charming you might opt to decorate with it rather than use it, but if you do open the box you'll enjoy a textured round of soap and an invigorating scrub.

Tyler Cole VP, Community
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Sea Salt Soap

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All the wooden sticks and Styrofoam balls you need to build the classic science project in one box.

Styrofoam Solar System Kit

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When lightning strikes the ground, it can fuse some kinds of sand, clay, or soil into glass. This produces a hollow tube called a fulgurite that can suggest the form of a lightning bolt.

Fossilized Lightning

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At first glance, gallium looks like any old metal, but drop it into your hand and it will melt into liquid from your body heat alone.

Gallium

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A distinctly non-naturally-occurring material that was created during the Trinity nuclear bomb test in New Mexico, trinitite is basically just glass, made when the heat from the blast melted the surrounding sand. That said, it’s extremely rare glass, since it’s now illegal to remove any more material from the Trinity site.

Trinitite Specimen

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Give your Wunderkammer an element of danger with this sample of uranium ore. The material included in this metal tin is safe to handle if you use common sense (don’t lick it), but is also certified to be measurably radioactive.

Uranium Ore

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Run a magnet over this bottle of ferrofluid, made of nanoparticles of a magnetic iron-containing compound suspended in a liquid medium, and it will burst into spiky shapes.

Bottled Ferrofluid

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Our modern life is saturated with marvelous machines, so how about a distinctly non-marvelous one: the Useless Box, which automatically turns itself off every time you turn it on.

Useless Box

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The Stirling engine was invented in 1816 and was meant to rival the steam engine. Nearly 200 years later, it still hasn’t quite made it to ubiquity, but works just fine. This one will get going on just a cup of water, either hot or iced. 

Stirling Engine Model

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Tuck these tiny wind-up butterflies into an old book or a birthday card and watch the recipient's surprise as they suddenly fly away.

Larissa Hayden
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Magic Butterflies

$13
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Place this miraculous, flopping fish in your palm and learn your future. Don't like what it reveals? No worries, it's a 72-pack.

Miracle Fortune Teller Fish

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Keeping a toddler occupied on a long plane ride is a big job. Lighten the load by bringing along a space-themed sticker book. The stickers are thankfully easy to unstick from plane seats, and the space theme is good prep for your child's future as an astronaut.

Dylan Thuras Co-Founder
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Reusable Space Stickers

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A timeless practical joke in the form of a wine glass. Designed by an ancient Greek philosopher, it functions like a normal wine glass but spills everywhere when over-filled by the gluttonous.

Larissa Hayden
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Pythagorean Wine Glass

$20
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Brings a sense of quest to your desk with this never-ending hallway of miniature danger.

Eric Grundhauser Senior Producer
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Dungeon Infinity Mirror

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Ulexite remains a surprising visual delight. The mineral is a complex arrangement of sodium, water, and hydroxide, and when an image is placed on one side of the rock, you can watch as the tiny fibers inside “transmit” it to the top.

Dylan Thuras Co-Founder
Dylan

TV Rock

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These pocket-sized packets are all you need to create your own color-changing fire, no magical powers needed. Perfect for whimsical fireplaces that delight children of all ages, or mystical campfires that shock friends.

Larissa Hayden
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Magical Flames

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Perfect for jewelry or other small items, why not wrap your gift in a box that's a gift in itself? 

Eric Grundhauser Senior Producer
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Carved Puzzle Gift Box

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The perfect accessory for your next cemetery cocktail party, make any drink more curious with skull-shaped ice.

Paula Mejia Gastro Obscura Associate Editor
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Skull Ice Cube Trays

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