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Green Island Lighthouse in Lvdao Township, Taiwan

April 29, 2024

In 1937, American ocean liner, the SS President Hoover, ran aground on the coral reefs off the coast of Lüdao (Green Island), Taiwan, which was under Japanese colonial possession. Local islanders who saw the wreck motored out on fishing boats to help the crew and passengers ashore. To thank them, the American Red Cross funded the construction of an American-style lighthouse on the northwestern tip of the island, near the place of the wreckage. The structure was designed by...

How Indonesia’s Toba Volcano Changed Human Evolution

April 29, 2024

They never saw it coming. For the small bands of hunter-gatherers across Africa and Eurasia, the day was like any other. Some tracked great herds of migrating animals across expansive grasslands; others moved through dense rainforests, or along the banks of turgid rivers and ephemeral streambeds. Survival—finding food and water, avoiding predators, strengthening the small group’s social bonds—was the order of the day. Thousands of miles away, an extraordinary event was about to take place: a cataclysm that would...

Why Fresh Fish Isn't Always Best

April 29, 2024

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE APRIL 27, 2024, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. Shortly before it closed and relocated to its more modern Toyosu digs, I spent the better part of a day wandering through the chaos of Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market. At the time, the world’s most famous fish market was selling around 1,700 tons of seafood a day, ranging from finger-length sardines to tuna weighing nearly 400 pounds. This piscean...

William the Conqueror's Dining Stone in Hastings,...

April 29, 2024

William the Conqueror’s Dining Stone is a large stone that overlooks the beach of St Leonards. Legend says that William, Duke of Normandy, used this ancient stone as a dining table after landing his Norman invasion of England in 1066. However, some suggest that this stone may have instead been part of King Harold Godwinson’s tomb, who was killed by William’s army during the Battle of Hastings. Regardless of its true purpose, the stone has captured the imagination of...

The Man-Eating Dingonek Lurks Beneath East Africa’s...

April 29, 2024

The beast-fish was terrifying. It stretched at least 14 feet long—or maybe 18. Its enormous head was shaped like a leopard, or a dog, or an otter, depending on who you asked and when. It used its strong, wide tail to steer through the currents of East Africa’s rivers. Some reported it had the long, white tusks of a walrus and an armadillo’s impenetrable scales. Its feet—for yes, the beast-fish had feet—were as large as a hippo’s, but with...

Jumbo Water Tower in Colchester, England

April 29, 2024

In the heart of Colchester stands the Jumbo Water Tower, considered a striking architectural wonder. The tower reaches 131 feet high and is made up of 1.2 million red bricks. It takes over 150 steps to reach the cupola at the top, which is crowned with an elephant weathervane. The structure earned the nickname “Jumbo,” after an elephant at the London Zoo. In 1883, surveyor and engineer Charles Clegg built the water tower in a Romanesque Revival campanile style....

Six Ksitigarbhas of Yuigahama in Kamakura, Japan

April 29, 2024

Yuigahama is one of Kamakura’s most popular hangouts, a scenic crescent-shaped beach flanked by mountainous headlands. It gets quite busy on weekends, with many families, couples, and tourists lounging about on the soft sand and soaking their feet in the calm waves. Despite its peaceful atmosphere, the beach is also known as one of the spookiest spots in the city. During the medieval Kamakura period, it saw many bloody battles between feuding samurai clans and executions. It was also...

Behold the Weird Glory of Häxan, A...

April 29, 2024

In September 1922, Swedish filmgoers settled in for the most expensive Scandinavian film of the era: Häxan, later known as Witchcraft Through the Ages. At the Stockholm premiere, audiences enjoyed a live orchestra and illustrated playbills introducing the film’s cast and creative process. This level of pomp and circumstance was typical for high-profile European movies at the time. Less typical was Häxan’s accompanying bibliography, citing dozens of academic sources ranging from medieval religious texts to Jungian psychoanalysis. It was...

Moto Museum in St. Louis, Missouri

April 29, 2024

Spanning nearly 100 years of motorcycle history, the MOTO Museum in St. Louis is home to a massive collection of rare and important motorcycles. Started by architect and retail developer Steve Smith in 2007, the collection is housed in a modern, industrial space adjacent to a boutique hotel. It includes roughly 75 vintage motorcycles from 21 European countries. The bikes range in age from the early 1900s to 1975. Each motorcycle shares a unique story. The oldest bike on...

The Stars and Stripes National Museum and...

April 29, 2024

In November 1861, in the early stages of the Civil War, 10 Union soldiers from southern Illinois took over the vacant print room of the Bloomfield Herald to establish a new publication, The Stars and Stripes. The Stars and Stripes National Museum and Library celebrates not only the military paper’s origins, but also its writers and photographers and the roles they played in some of history’s most pivotal moments. The museum’s 7,000 square feet of exhibition space is filled with...

Nicholas-Beazley Aviation Museum in Marshall, Missouri

April 29, 2024

Marshall, Missouri, was once a hotbed of flight innovation. It’s home of the historic Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company, founded in 1921 by two flight visionaries who started their business by upselling airplane propellers and other parts. Eventually, Russell Nicholas and Howard Beazley’s company expanded into plane production. The company also had the best-equipped and world’s largest civilian flying school of its time, with over 3,000 students. Parts for the Spirit of St. Louis, the aircraft made famous by Charles Lindbergh for...

Podcast: Atlas Obscura Presents 'Windsor Hum' From...

April 29, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we present a tale from Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast that reveals the stories behind the world’s most recognizable and interesting sounds. On their show, they’ve explored topics such as the sounds of other planets, the mind blowing ways that insects communicate, and secret spy messages that are broadcast on the radio. In this episode, they take you...

Explore Sinister Spring Tales with Atlas Obscura

April 29, 2024

We’ve been missing Halloween at Atlas Obscura, so we decided to bring a little horror into early summer: Welcome to Rites of Spring, a curated collection of frights from around the world. Over the next week, we’ll take you to the vast, arid deserts of the Gobi in search of the Mongolian death worm. We’ll dive beneath the Pacific to witness the horrors of the 600-pound King Octopus. We’ll gaze at the immortal horror of Haxan, the groundbreaking 1920s...

The Atlas Obscura Crossword: Three-Bagger

April 29, 2024

This week’s Atlas Obscura puzzle comes to us from the students in Atlas Obscura’s Creating Crossword Puzzles course in March 2024, along with their instructors, expert crossword creators Brooke Husic and Natan Last. If you’re interested in learning how to create a crossword puzzle like this one, the next course is scheduled to start on September 10, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET. Enroll here! You can solve this week’s puzzle below, or download it in .pdf or .puz. Happy...

You Can Still Die From World War...

April 26, 2024

In some parts of France, World War I has never ended. These are the Zones rouges—an archipelago of former battlegrounds so pockmarked and polluted by war that, more than a century after the end of hostilities, they remain unfit to live or even farm on. WWI was the first industrial war and a laboratory for all kinds of military innovations, including the first use of tanks and poison gas. Both the German and the Allied war machines belched out...

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