Whether you're looking for a celebratory weekend getaway or planning to relocate permanently, it's likely that you'll want to find a city that offers plenty of fun activities, but doesn't break the bank.

With the help of WalletHub's 2016 Most fun cities in America ranking, we've come up with a list of 15 cities that are both fun and affordable.

To determine it's original ranking, WalletHub compared the 150 largest US cities based on 51 key metrics, ranging from number of fitness centers per capita to movie costs to number of music venues per capita. Each city was scored on three categories: entertainment and recreation, nightlife and parties, and costs. (Read more about their methodology here.)

To compile our ranking, we averaged the cities' overall score and costs score — a category made up of 10 metrics, including average beer price, average food price, movie costs, and bowling costs. The cities with the lowest averages made it to the top of our list.

Below, check out 15 US cities where you can have a blast on the cheap.

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14. Kansas City, Missouri

Average beer price (6-pack): $8.04

Average pizza price: $8.16

Average movie ticket: $9.15

Price for a 3-star hotel room: $60

(TIE) 13. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Average beer price (6-pack): $8

Average pizza price: $9

Average movie ticket: $10.18

Price for a 3-star hotel room: $82

(TIE) 13. Buffalo, New York

Average beer price (6-pack): $7.99

Average pizza price: $8.66

Average movie ticket: $10.16

Price for a 3-star hotel room: $93

For all the magic and mystery of fashion, a lot of it can be understood by looking at data.

Edited is a British startup that tracks retail inventories and more to understand what’s hot. In a new report for Business Insider, their analysts used data and observations from the runway to identify the trends sweeping America.

The following charts show new arrivals in various categories for men and women at multi-brand retailers in the US.

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Men's leather backpacks are selling out.

EDITED: "Within the US premium/luxury markets, leather backpacks see just over double the number of full price sellouts vs new in over the last 14 days. Demand is high and retailers are not keeping up. This Spring (01 Feb – 31 Jul 2016) has seen 6% more sellouts compared to 2015. We can see two clear trends in recent months — sleek and simple or bold and embellished like Fendi’s monsters and Dolce&Gabbana’s badged offerings. The more traditional backpack style comprising of a main body and front zip pocket is most widely seen and it will continue to be popular, while strap fastening are growing in popularity and is a trend to watch for men’s leather backpacks."

Men's joggers (aka tapered sweatpants) are hot—particularly skinny joggers.

EDITED: "Dominating 41% of all jogger arrivals across both markets this Spring, skinny fits have seen a 73% rise in newness in the US. What's Next? Looking ahead to the upcoming Fall, arrivals for skinny fits should slow as the last two weeks have seen a much higher rate of newness compared to full price sellouts. Limiting arrivals for smart styles is a must. Success this Spring was owed to fewer arrivals."

Men's bomber jackets are here to stay.

EDITED: "The bomber jacket is proving its staying power with another successful season. Both US and UK regions saw a 9% replenishment rate and of those discounted only 18% saw a price cut of over 50%."

James Fry is a parking garage magnate in Australia's coastal city of Melbourne.

His latest project, Notel, takes one of his structures to the next level. Six shiny Airstream trailers sit on top of a transformed garage space. Guests can rent a trailer for $395 a night.

Take a look inside this non-traditional hotel.

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James Fry has run the three-level garage on Harper's Lane for a decade. The idea for transforming the roof into a hotel came to him after a few beers with friends up there.

Fry, pictured, landed on the name "Notel" because it makes it clear that the parking lot is not your typical resort.

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Fry rescued the retro Airstream trailers from a Santa Barbara, California, company for $70,000 each. He completely gutted them.

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The concept behind online men's accessory shop The Tie Bar is simple: sell a wide variety of ties of good quality for a decent price.

The Tie Bar is a primarily online shop that runs in select Nordstrom stores and operates one location in Chicago. But what they found was that potential in-store customers would often bring in their own dress shirts to try on ties, said Allyson Lewis, The Tie Bar's president and VP of merchandising, to GQ.

Observing that guys liked to see their shirts paired with the ties at the time of purchase, the company has decided to release a line of dress shirts.

It makes sense to buy ties and dress shirts together anyway, as few combinations in men's style need to stick the matching landing quite so thoroughly.

The line of shirts will be 100% cotton, non-iron, and machine-washable, and will come in both standard and "trim" fits. They come in a range of classic patterns like gingham and materials like chambray, and retail for $55, or 3 for $140.

The shirts are the culmination of 18 months of development from The Tie Bar, who identified a gap in the market created by the trend towards more casual clothing.

The shirts will be on sale at the Chicago Tie Bar location, online, and at select Nordstrom stores. There will soon be a tool to visualize combinations of the shirts and the ties sold online.

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The kitchen at Zume Pizza looks more like a manufacturing plant than the back room of a restaurant. Robots with swinging appendages dress up pizza crusts with marinara sauce made from locally grown tomatoes and toppings as the pies make their way down the conveyor belt.

"We're a co-bot environment," says Julia Collins, cofounder and co-CEO of Zume Pizza.

At the Mountain View, California-based delivery startup, pizza-making robots and humans work together to make better pizza faster. By automating the kitchen, the Zume team claims they can fill orders quickly and accurately, and reduce delivery times to as little as 15 minutes.

While some humans are worried (for good reason) that robots will take away food industry jobs, Collins says critics can rest assured: No one who works at Zume risks being booted from work by robots.

"That is absolutely a promise that we make to our employees," Collins tells Business Insider.

The kitchen at Zume, a delivery-only startup, is capable of churning out 288 pizzas an hour. But the bots can't do it alone — yet. Collins explains that Zume prioritized automating the parts of the pizza-making process that humans are bad at, like spreading sauce evenly or taking pizza dough off a wooden pallet. The company expects to reach full automation by March 2017.

When that happens, Zume says the transition will free up pizza chefs to learn new skills and take on different roles in technical support, engineering, or web design.

"What we want to do is actually let people have the opportunity to keep growing. I think where the fast food industry falls short is exactly that," Collins says. "It's not typical for somebody to be able to start at a fast food restaurant and get sponsorship to go to a coding academy."

Zume will also provide tuition subsidies for employees who want to take an English as a second language course (so they can work in hardware support) or attend graphic design school (so they can join the user-experience and user-interface web design team).

The company aims to serve all of the Bay Area with new kitchen hubs by 2018.

Collins says Zume timed the opening of their next kitchen, in San Jose, California, to coincide with the build-out of full automation of Zume's flagship location. When the robots take over spreading sauce, for example, line cooks will be able to transfer to San Jose.

Zume currently employs about 30 people on its kitchen and delivery teams.

"Since the industrial revolution, the American workforce has been adapting to the advent of new technologies," Collins says. "The important thing is — for those who've chosen to be at the leading edge of automation, as we have — how can we think responsibly about our obligation to the people that come work for us?"

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We fear boredom — that we might be bored or, even worse, bore others.

One example: For a 2014 University of Virginia psychology study, participants gave themselves electrical shocks to avoid sitting alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes. 

In a similarly themed Quora thread, users discussed what makes people boring. 

Here are the highlights, so that you can identify the bores in your life and avoid becoming a bore yourself.

Drake Baer contributed to an earlier version of this article.

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1. Boring people have unbalanced conversations.

Instead of finding a rhythm between talking and listening, boring people are on either conversational extreme.

Quora user Jack Bennett calls it an "asymmetry in the conversational 'give and take' — e.g. all listening and no talking, or all talking and no listening." 

2. Boring people can't tell if people are engaged in the conversation.

If you're emphatically boring, you're probably missing the other person's body language.

User Garrick Saito argues that what makes a person boring is the "continual blathering and ignoring of signals and body language that say (perhaps not loudly enough) 'I'm not interested in what you're saying, but am nodding every few seconds only to be polite.'"

To avoid this, learn how to listen to what people are saying with their bodies. 

3. Boring people can't make people laugh.

Humor shows "cognitive flexibility": the ability to assess an idea or an event from a variety of perspectives, and then, naturally, make light of it. Boring people lack it.

"I'm an easy sell," admits Will Wister. "I mean come on let's face it — it's not that hard." 

A new kind of farmers market has cropped up in Malibu, California, where the typical fare of fresh produce and flowers is sold alongside locally grown marijuana flowers and infused foods.

On a remote patch of pebbly beach, a group of marijuana farmers and purveyors gathered for the first ever Emerald Exchange in August. There's another event this November.

Here's what the first event was like.

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Emerald Exchange, which held its inaugural event on a Malibu beach last month, gives new meaning to the "farmers market" concept.

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A select group of marijuana entrepreneurs and farmers offered their wares. They hailed mostly from Mendocino County, a region known for its marijuana cultivation.

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There was something for everyone, including small-batch, sun-grown weed from sustainable marijuana farm Prema Flora — sold in Mason jars, no less.

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Tommy Walker always knew he wanted to travel.

Living in a small, working class town in Northeast England, the now 29-year-old remembers dreaming of somewhere exotic, somewhere "far, far away from here" as a child, he told Business Insider.

In his early 20s, he finally got the chance to go. Tired of a 9-5 corporate job at a product management company, he bought a ticket to Sweden, intending to work his way down by the Eurorail to explore the continent.

Then, his dad got sick, and he postponed his trip, settling for shorter-term stays instead.

In 2011, his father died, leaving Walker and his brother an inheritance through his workplace that Walker chose to split into pieces: about 60% on longer-term investments, and 30% on travel, starting with an ambitious trip to Southeast Asia.

He acknowledges that some people might consider his windfall a stroke of luck, but says he wishes some things had turned out differently. "Sure, I got an inheritance," he said, "but at the end of the day it's my father. It's no compensation for what happened, but obviously, it helped me get to where I am today."

His inheritance stopped fully funding his travels — which you can follow via Facebook, Instagram, or through his website — before the first of four years was up. Since then, he's been in a cycle of working, saving, and traveling. "I've always been lucky enough to find work and make money," he said, "so once I started this travel journey, I always felt that I'd always find money if I wanted to buy something later on."

Below, Walker explained the gritty reality behind long-term travel, why you don't need a windfall to leave home, and how he now affords to stay on the road.

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Walker started his adventure with a ticket to Bangkok, to backpack Southeast Asia. He chose his destination in part because his father, a Buddhist, wished later in life that he would have traveled more.

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In Bangkok, Thailand.

"That feeling of being in Asia, I'll never get that back," Walker reflected. "Any traveler who’s been traveling for more than two years will say you can't get that initial feeling back — you're naive and you don't really know a lot, and everything is new and there's no expectation. Southeast Asia is perfect for that, because it's so different to Western culture. It's such an incredible vortex to be pushed into."

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In India.

After 10 months backpacking Southeast Asia, Walker moved to Australia to find a job and shore up his savings again. He ended up in Melbourne with two: a day job working in IT, and a part-time gig as a host at a restaurant.

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In Melbourne, Australia.

If you've ever used a public toilet, you probably wish you held the urge until you got home.

They're unclean, smelly, and often serve as de facto homes for homeless people.

Thankfully, the city of Portland, Oregon, has reinvented the staple facility of urban centers, festivals, and campgrounds. And the new public toilet only cost $250,000 to develop.

The Portland Loo isn't the futuristic, self-cleaning bathroom you might imagine. A weathered-looking steel shell wraps around a single toilet bowl. There's no sink or running water. Grates at the top and bottom of the structure allow onlookers to see in; though a "blind spot" prevents people from watching users do their business, Fast Company reports.

So what makes this loo so special?

The police, fire department, and maintenance crews in Portland worked together to engineer a public-use toilet that could be easily cleaned and maintained, while also preventing crime. (The toilet is manufactured by Madden Fabrication.)

Public bathrooms often double as dens for crime— places where drug users can shoot up in privacy and buy or sell merchandise. Their central location offers convenience for prostitution.

The Portland Loo's slats, while reducing privacy, ensure police can see in if they suspect illegal activity. Blue lighting makes it difficult for heroin users to locate their veins and use inside. Even the paint supposedly repels graffiti.

Fast Company reported in September that more than a dozen cities have installed Portland Loo facilities — 34 facilities in all. They cost almost $90,000 each.

The city of its birth, Portland, is home to eight of those bathrooms. The flagship toilet, located in the Old Town-Chinatown neighborhood, still stands eight years after it was installed.

A Portland Loo located in Victoria, British Columbia, won the vote for Canada's best bathroom in 2012, CBC News reports. The city's sanitation crew maintains it throughout the day.

But not everyone is on board. San Diego removed one of its Portland Loos after just 13 months. City officials told The San Diego Union-Tribune the restroom became a magnet for crime. The police saw a 130% increase in calls to the area around the Portland Loo, according to The Union-Tribune.

In tech-savvy San Francisco — a city that has the second largest homeless population in the US — city officials are trying a different approach with solar-powered flushing toilets.

The bathrooms are wheeled out four afternoons a week in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood, and are accompanied by an attendant. Each station costs the city $100,000 annually, which is comparable to what San Diego spent maintaining its Portland Loo.

Is the Portland Loo any less smelly than the current public toilets on city streets? Probably not.

But it is an innovative solution to a seemingly universal problem.

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In the six years since college graduation, I've learned a few things — not including how to roast vegetables, or that New York City post offices are to be avoided at all costs.

Consider them more ... hard truths about life.

I'm not for a moment saying I know close to everything, or even most things. In fact, I probably don't even know what I don't know. (Wait for my follow-up post a decade from now: "Everything I thought I'd learned by age 28 was completely wrong.")

But along the way, a few things have become clear to me.

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There's no such thing as 'shy'

Growing up, I wouldn't ever raise my hand in class because everyone would look at me. I was that kid who covered her ears when people sang "happy birthday." I blushed at the drop of the hat (I still do) and I never accepted anything adults offered me because I was desperate not to inconvenience them.

I was shy.

But one day — I can't put my finger on when — I realized that "shy" is not an excuse that carries into adulthood. Think back to the last time you saw an acquaintance who didn't say hi, or you hung out with someone who didn't say more than two sentences in a group. Remember the person who wouldn't meet your eyes, or mumbled, or gave you one of those awful limp-wrist handshakes.

Did you think "oh, that poor person, he/she must be shy!" No, you didn't. You thought something along the lines of: "What a jerk."

Eventually, no matter how hard it is, you have to consider how your shyness makes the people around you feel and how it makes them view you. It isn't good. At some point, you just have to get over it.

(I understand it's a different issue for people with severe and diagnosed social anxiety, and I can't begin to imagine how that feels. This insight is for those with garden-variety anxiety — of the ducking-down-grocery-store-aisles-to-not-say-hi type.)

Nothing will change if you don't change anything

I tell myself this whenever an opportunity is on the horizon: a new project, a new job, a new date, a new apartment.

If you want something different, it's up to you to go out and seek it. You can wait for a change to fall into your lap, but you're probably going to be waiting a long time — and frankly, the type of changes that fall into your lap are rarely good.

Everything is temporary

On a similar note, everything is temporary. You will only be this age, living here, with this job, with this team, in this state of health, in this state of mental health, for so long. 

You could choose to see this as a bad thing (Happiness is fleeting! Things will never be this good again!), but I consider it reassuring in two ways. Firstly, knowing that your life won't always be this good forever inspires gratitude for the things that are going well right now. Secondly, if things aren't good, you can take comfort in knowing that things won't always be so bad.

Johnny Depp has just listed his $12.7 million Los Angeles apartment. It's composed of five penthouses combined into one space. 

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It seems reasonable to assume that the easiest way to know whether a product is worth buying is trying it out for yourself. That is, at least, the idea behind a brand-new hotel from Parachute, the direct-to-consumer bedding and home goods startup based in Venice, California.

Launched in 2014, Parachute has gained a bit of a cult following for the high-quality sheets it manufactures in Italy and then sells online and in its Venice showroom. At its new 2,200-square-foot penthouse hotel, guests can actually sleep on Parachute bedding and mattress pads, and try out its popular bath towels and bathrobes. Nightly rates for the one-bedroom loft will cost $600, and it can be booked on Parachute's website.

"It is an opportunity for our community to engage with Parachute in a new and exciting way," Parachute founder and CEO Ariel Kaye told Business Insider. "We wanted to create a space that would feel comfortable not only for a group of thirty, but also for a couple looking to relax on vacation and to experience Venice like locals."

Let's take a look at what guests of the Parachute Hotel can expect from their stay. 

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At 2,200 square feet, the Parachute Hotel is fairly spacious. Kaye told us she envisions it being used for private stays, photo shoots, and other events.

The space was designed by Scott Horne and Peter Dolkas, who also worked on Parachute's showroom. And though the brand's focus is on bedding and bath essentials, the furniture pieces seen throughout the penthouse are also available for purchase from other local brands. "It also features custom home furnishings, locally sourced amenities and inspired art," Kaye said.

The select group of home decor brands includes a custom bed frame and kitchenware by Chris Earl, home goods by The Citizenry, and artwork by Cindy Zell and Lauren Williams. "We hand selected design partners that have a similar brand ethos to Parachute – driven by quality, design and responsibility," Kaye said. "The local design community is small, so supporting each other is essential."

Do opposites really attract?

Probably not.

There's an idea among personality and social psychologists that people gravitate toward people, places, and things that resemble the self. This tendency is commonly referred to as "implicit egotism."

As Melissa Burkley, a professor of social psychology at Oklahoma State University, points out in Psychology Today, we tend to be attracted to people who share our values, level of education, past experiences, and goals for the future.

And, according to research out of West Point and Columbia University, another trait we find attractive in others is how similar their names are to ours. This similarity activates people's positive, automatic associations about themselves, the researchers write.

Using Census data and marriage records, the researchers found that people are disproportionately likely to marry others whose first or last names resemble their own.

"A wedding for Jesse Jefferson and Jennifer Jeffries may be just around the corner," the authors write.

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Being a modern gentleman is about more than just knowing what to wear or what to put in your bathroom. It's also about being informed about the world around you.

We asked our friends at Amazon Books to put together a list of essential books every man should read, ranging from fiction to business.

Keep scrolling for the books you shouldn't miss — they just might change how you look at things.

All captions by Amazon Books editor Chris Schluep.

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FASHION — "Icons of Men's Style" by Josh Sims

"This one might be a little obvious, but it's a damn fine looking book, so I had to include it."

BUSINESS: Silicon Valley — "Chaos Monkeys" by Antonio Garcia Martinez

"The author left Goldman Sachs to pursue work at a West Coast start-up, eventually landing at Facebook in the early years.

He has since departed, but the memories remain, and his history is one of the few that exists around the company. It's not all free food and exercise ball chairs, and Martinez pulls no punches."

BUSINESS: Hollywood — "Powerhouse" by James Andrew Miller

"From the author who brought you the ESPN oral history 'Those Guys Have All the Fun' comes an oral history featuring the players who helped to build modern day Hollywood — the stars, the agents, the executives, and the tycoons."

Some buildings diverge from the norm so much that they make you stop and think about how architects ever came up with the designs.

From a home built upside-down to one resembling a toilet, here's a look at some of the most impressive yet odd feats of home design from around the world.

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Some homes take their inspiration from strange places. This home, built by sanitation activists in Suwon, South Korea, was designed to look like a toilet.

The residents who designed this mansion in Abuja, Nigeria love to travel, and renovated their home's roof to look like an airplane.

Artist Moussa Kalo designed this crocodile home in 2008, but he sadly passed away two months before it was completed.

Working for a candy company can be pretty sweet— especially if your employer is Mars.

According to employees at Mars Chocolate — a segment of the $33 billion Mars candy, pet care, and beverage company — the free Snickers and M&Ms aren't even the best part of their job.

"Mars Chocolate is a truly unique place to work," one associate told Business Insider during a visit to the Hackettstown, New Jersey, office in May 2016. "Everyone is passionate about the work they are doing — and the people are incredible. We are one big family and that's not something you get everywhere."

Mars — which was ranked on Fortune's "100 Best Companies To Work For" list in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 — employs 72,000 people (who they call "associates") worldwide and over 25,000 in the US. About 16,000 of those global associates work for Mars Chocolate.

Here are some photos from our tour of the Mars Chocolate North America office in Hackettstown:

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Four friendly M&Ms greet you at the main entrance of the building.

Of the 16,000 Mars Chocolate associates around the globe, about 1,200 of them are in Hackettstown.

Mars Chocolate produces 29 candy brands in total, including the billion-dollar global brands M&M's, Snickers, Dove, Milky Way, and Twix. The Mars Chocolate North America campus is also home to the M&M's factory, where 50% of all M&M's sold in the US are made. When you walk through the front doors of the office building, giant M&M's greet you with bins of complimentary candy.

Luxury goods conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton has agreed to purchase an 80% stake in German suitcase maker Rimowa for €640 million, or about $717 million, according to a press release.

Rimowa, famous for its ribbed aluminum suitcases, is a favorite of celebrities around the world, including Martha Stewart, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Will.i.am, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Upton.

Started in Cologne, Germany, it created the first aluminum case in 1937 and the first lightweight polycarbonate case in 2000, according to the BBC.

"Rimowa is a brand with a unique heritage," Bernard Arnault, CEO and chairman of LVMH, said in the release. "We share with [Rimowa CEO] Dieter Morszeck the same passion for innovation and a common desire to offer very high-quality products derived from a European tradition of craftsmanship."

The cheapest of Rimowa's offerings cost about $400, but larger cases can reach over $1,000, which is still significantly less than a comparably sized Louis Vuitton-branded case. The polycarbonate suitcases come in a range of colors from dark green to bright red, while the aluminum models come in different shades of silver and beige. Recent models of the bags are equipped with Bluetooth connections and electronic tags that let travelers check in their bags at home, then skip the line once they get to the airport.

A LVMH spokesperson told The New York Times that it expects to hit about $450 million in revenue this year. Rimowa now has 140 stores around the world.

Arnault is installing Alexandre, his 24-year-old son, as co-CEO of the brand along with Morszeck, the grandson of Rimowa's original founder. Morszeck will keep the remaining 20% stake in the company, according to the Times. Rimowa will be added to LVMH's stable of luxury brands, which includes Tag Heuer, Givenchy, Dior, Moët & Chandon, Marc Jacobs, and Sephora.

This solidifies LVMH as the second-largest luggage maker, with about 6.5% of the global market, according to Euromonitor via Bloomberg. Samsonite, which acquired luxury brand Tumi earlier in 2016, still has the lion's share with about 17%.

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In the early 1900s, Ellis Island served as the United States' largest immigration station, processing up to 12 million immigrants between the years 1892 and 1954.

One amateur photographer by the name of Augustus Sherman, who served as Ellis Island's chief registry clerk sometime between 1906 and 1917, photographed a handful of immigrants who passed through. According to the New York Public Library, his subjects were most likely asked to wear their best holiday finery or national dress. 

These stunning portraits, originally published in National Geographic in 1907, have now been brought back to life and colorized by Jordan Lloyd of Dynamichrome. Lloyd's technique includes historical research for accuracy, as well as retouching at an expert level. His book "The Paper Time Machine," includes these portraits, and is currently raising funds to be published.

All captions are by Dynamichrome.

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"Gákti is the traditional costume of the Sámi people inhabiting the arctic regions spanning from northern Norway to the Kola peninsula in Russia. Traditionally made from reindeer leather and wool, velvet and silks are also used, with the (typically blue) pullover being supplemented by contrasting colored banding of plaits, brooches and jewelry."

"The decorations are region-specific and the gákti is used in ceremonial contexts such as weddings, or signified whether or not one was single or married, but also served as working dress when herding reindeer."

"Hailing from the Germanic-speaking region of Alsace now in modern day France, the large bow known as a schlupfkàpp was worn by single women."

One of the most common refrains this election season — and every election season, really — is people swearing they'll move to Canada, a land where healthcare is free, people are friendly, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explains quantum computing just for laughs.

But to actually become a Canadian citizen, you'll first need to go through several steps, like living in the country for at least six years, staying on your best behavior, and knowing a thing or two about the country you'll soon call home.

For those who actually want to head up north, here's how you move to Canada.

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Preface: Make sure you're not already a Canadian citizen.

Before you go through the hassle of applying for citizenship, take a short quiz to see if you may already be Canadian.

The government outlines several caveats for being a citizen even if you weren't born there, many of which depend on your parents' citizenship. Maybe you secretly inherited their status at some point along the way.

Be at least 18 years old.

If you're not a legal adult, you've got an uphill climb ahead of you.

Minors need their parent or legal guardian to fill out the application for them; they need to be permanent residents in Canada (more on that later); and the parent must either be a citizen or applying to become one at the same time.

Or enter the pool for skilled immigrants.

Canada has a fast-track system for immigration called Express Entry. It's how skilled workers transition into a role in the country.

All applicants into Express Entry are given specific scores based on their specific talents and job prospects and then ranked with other applicants. Those at the top of the rankings are invited to become permanent residents.

Rents may be dropping slightly in several of America's largest cities, but it's always helpful to know what your money can get you.

Of course, your rent money will stretch a lot further in some cities than others. A one-bedroom apartment in New York City, for instance, goes for about $2,000 more than the same-sized apartment in Denver.

With the help of real-estate marketplace Zumper and its October national rent report, we've compiled a sampling of one-bedroom listings in the 20 most expensive markets in the US.

Each listing is within $100 of the respective city's median rental price.

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20. DENVER: For $1,300 a month, residents of this newly renovated apartment in a quiet residential neighborhood are close to several parks and shopping centers.

Rent: $1,300/month

Neighborhood: Speer

This apartment overflows with amenities, including everything from dark wood cabinets to stainless steel appliances to new flooring and lighting. 

19. ATLANTA: This spacious apartment goes for $1,295 a month and includes access to a fitness center, picnic area, and outdoor barbecue space.

Rent: $1,295/month

Neighborhood: Midtown

This pet-friendly apartment comes complete with a balcony, hardwood floors, a walk-in closet, and air conditioning to temper Atlanta's hot summers. The complex also offers a business center, garage parking, and a pool. 

18. MINNEAPOLIS: Located in the heart of Minneapolis, units in this complex start at $1,345 a month and sit close to walking trails along the West River Parkway and fine dining in Highland Park.

Rent: $1,345 to $1,495/month

Neighborhood: Hiawatha

Units at Parkway West captivate residents with an open layout, floor-to-ceiling windows, and a rooftop patio.