Author: Ms. R.

This huge mural has been a feature of the area around Leeds Corn Exchange for over 30 years. Artist Graeme Wilson, who painted the mural in 1990, hailed from nearby Ilkley and was a graduate of Reading University before going on to have a varied career. Wilson worked in all sorts of mediums, as well as lectured at various art institutions before succumbing to cancer in 2018. Sponsored by the Corn Exchange, the mural proudly sits on the side……

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Walking through Mulgrave Woods towards Foss Castle, you’ll come across Barnby Beck, a river running east to west through North York Moors National Park. Crossing this stream at an old ford, you’ll see what looks like a miniature dam upstream, a set of ruins slowly being reclaimed by Mother Nature. These are the ruins of Lythe Mill. The ruins were once a three-story, water-powered corn mill built deep within Mulgrave Woods dating—as per an inscription in stone—to 1809. The……

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Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we head to Los Angeles where, 8,000 years ago, the land’s first inhabitants built a village around a sacred spring. Today, their descendants still work to protect it. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to an incredible site, and along the way you’ll meet……

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Built in 1895, Asheville’s Biltmore Estate is the largest private home in the United States—by a long shot. The estate is open to the public, drawing in nearly two million tourists annually who wish to take in its bewildering scale (and secrets). It’s no coincidence, then, that the closest McDonald’s is, by some subjective measure, “the world’s fanciest McDonald’s.” But it wasn’t always. Even before it was open for public visitation, the Biltmore employed so many workers that they……

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In a rectangular complex surrounded by trees in the neighborhood of Wanawadi in Pune, stands a beautiful memorial. The structure was designed to honor Mahadji Shinde, the 18th-century Maratha military leader and statesman. Shinde was a trusted lieutenant of the Peshwa (the prime minister of the Maratha Empire) and was the commander-in-chief of the Maratha army from 1760 to 1780. In 1794, this complex housed a temple dedicated to Lord Shiva. The temple was built by Mahadji Shinde himself…….

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The posters were ubiquitous, tacked up in break rooms and taped behind windows, printed in magazines, and painted on the sides of buildings. “Food Will Win the War!” and “Food is Ammunition!” they declared. “Save wheat, meat, fats, and sugars—and serve the cause of freedom!” During World War I, the United States Food Administration used these provocative slogans to convince Americans to conserve food for soldiers fighting on the front lines. And while the agency itself was abolished after……

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This station can only be reached by train because it is located at an altitude of 3,159 meters (10,364 feet), directly in the Eiger mountain in the Bernese Alps. The station is the second-highest in Europe, and part of the Jungfrau Railway, which runs from Kleine Scheidegg to Jungfrauenjoch. The destination station, the Jungfraujoch, is the highest station in Europe, located at 3,454 meters (11,332 feet). The main use of the train station Eismeer is to give passengers a……

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