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5 Ways For Hotels to Minimize Booking...

January 25, 2024

Your hotel’s website might be buzzing with traffic due to all the hard work and resources you’re putting into attracting visitors. But is your website as efficient as you wish it was? Imagine a potential guest, excited and ready to book, but something doesn’t click, and they leave without completing the reservation. That’s booking engine The post 5 Ways For Hotels to Minimize Booking Engine Drop-Off appeared first on Revfine.com.

Cilwendeg Shell House Hermitage in Newchapel, Wales

January 24, 2024

The Cilwendeg Shell House Hermitage was built in 1820, and thanks to a restoration project in 2004, the mysterious and impressive structure still stands. It was built by Morgan Jones the Younger of the Cilwendeg Estate, who constructed it as a shrine for his late uncle, Morgan Jones the Elder, who lived much of his life as a recluse from society. It’s coated from head to toe in seashells and minerals from local beaches, as well as fragments of colored...

The VKOL Red Church in Olomouc, Czech...

January 24, 2024

While the art of turning churches into cafés, libraries or even techno clubs is nothing new within a country such as the Netherlands, Czechs have always been a bit more conservative. This church, however, stands out. With a bizarre architectural style that stands in contrast to the city’s baroque buildings, this former church looks as though it belongs in the Baltics rather than Central Europe. Founding of the church can be traced back to the Germans living in Olomouc...

Chania Lighthouse in Chania, Greece

January 24, 2024

The lighthouse was originally built by the Venetians in the 16th century. It saw a rocky life, death and rebirth through following years when in 1645, Turks took control of the city and allowed the tower to collapse. In 1864, Egyptian troops raided and rebuilt it. It once again became damaged during WWII, however has now been a listed archeological site since 1862. Of the original building, only the base remains. A short walk along the defensive wall to...

Moko Tree in Wellington, New Zealand

January 24, 2024

An ancient Rimu tree estimated to be at least 800 years old peeks through the canopy at Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. These remarkable, slow-growing trees can only be found in New Zealand. Park officials erected a platform around the ancient Rimu tree, nicknamed ‘Moko,’ to protect its fragile roots system. The botanical garden and forest preserve is a reminder of what the New Zealand’s landscape was like before the arrival of European settlers. Upon arrival, European settlers quickly cleared the land for development...

Ancient Gum Reveals Stone-Age Teens Chewed on...

January 24, 2024

Our Stone Age forebears chewed gum just like us—except their version of “gum” was actually a tarry tree resin, and we can be sure it tasted nothing like Wrigley’s Doublemint. Samples of this birch pitch still embedded with 10,000-year-old tooth marks were discovered in Sweden several decades ago, but a recent study has revealed more about what the prehistoric teenagers ate and other activities they did with their teeth. The study, published last week in the journal Scientific Reports,...

World's Largest Skis in Edsbyverken, Sweden

January 24, 2024

Edsbyverken is a key producer of wooden furniture today, and manufactured skis from 1899 to 1999. To honor this tradition, replicas of these important exports now stand next to the entrance to the town. At 10 times the size of their normal counterparts, these imposing pieces of athletic equipment bear the distinction of being the largest skis in the world. Next to the skis is a chair measuring 7.6 meters in height. Although chairs larger than that exist elsewhere...

Meigs Field Tower and Terminal in Chicago,...

January 24, 2024

Jutting out into the waters of Lake Michigan just south of the Loop is Northerly Island Park, which is home to two curious buildings that harken back to the artificial peninsula’s history. Home to Chicago‘s Meigs Field from 1948 to 2003, the spot that’s now the park was originally designed as such, in Daniel Burnham’s grand plan for Chicago. However the proximity to the offices of the Loop proved enticing to city planners and executives looking for hassle-free travel,...

Scavenged Parts Antiques & Oddities in Rockford,...

January 24, 2024

Nestled in the heart of Rockford amongst the lively bustle of a rapidly developing downtown area lies the freshly lacquered doors of Scavenged Parts Antiques & Oddities. Jointly owned by oddities circuit veterans Sarah Thistle and Tim Prince, this newly opened location is the culmination of a decade-long journey into refining and perfecting their niche. Speaking more or less to the “antiques” of Scavenged Parts is Sarah Thistle, whose time-tempered antiquarian venture has resulted in a selective yet extensive...

The Cat Mayor of Talkeetna in Talkeetna,...

January 24, 2024

Talkeetna, a small town of around 1,000 people, is a base for exploring Denali, North America’s highest peak, and may have been the inspiration for the fictional town Cicely in the 1990s television show Northern Exposure. It is best known, though, for electing a cat as mayor. On the main street in Talkeetna, called K’dalkitnu in the Indigenous language Dena’ina, is Nagley’s, a general store whose history stretches back to Alaska’s gold rush era. Open since 1921, it started...

Doris Miller Memorial in Waco, Texas

January 24, 2024

Doris Miller joined the United States Navy when segregation forced Black soldiers into non-combat roles, Miller was a cook. Miller was on board the battleship West Virginia on December 7, 1941, when the attack on Pearl Harbor began. Despite no prior training, Miller stepped up to an anti-aircraft gun and used it on the enemy, officially taking down two Japanese planes. During the same attack, Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety. Miller was awarded the Navy Cross in 1942...

Podcast: Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern

January 24, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit Houston, where a gigantic underground chamber that used to be a water source is now an enchanting—and echo-filled—part of the city’s park system. 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 some fascinating people...

For Sale: A Mouse-Infested Roman Helmet That's...

January 23, 2024

Swords encrusted with jewels and inlaid with gold, breastplates sporting chiseled abs, impressive Greek helmets oxidized by time to an otherworldly green. These are just a few of the remarkable Greek and Roman artifacts making up the largest private collection of ancient arms and armor in the world. But one item stands out among the rest: The Guttmann Mouse Helmet, an incredibly well preserved and ornate Roman Imperial helmet created in the mid-second century. Some of the helmet’s smallest...

A Longed-For Taste of Home in ‘The...

January 23, 2024

“I believe that this was the work of a man who had a yearning for the homeland that he would never see again,” says British food historian Daniel Newman. He’s talking about Fiḍālat al-Khiwān fī Ṭayyibāt al-Ṭaʿām wa-l-Alwān, meaning “Remainders on the Table as Regards Delightful Foods and Dishes,” the original title of a cookbook written in Arabic around the year 1260. The author, Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī, was a scholar from a prominent family in the city of Murcia...

The Many Lives of ‘Sounds of North...

January 23, 2024

It was late on July 16, 1957, and Charles M. Bogert was in a recording booth in Highland County, Florida, with a pair of singers who wouldn’t sing. The burgeoning producer, who had left a busy life in New York to chase talent in the Sunshine State, had heard the two perform live that very evening, in a chorus of hundreds. He had plucked them from the crowd, and thenushered them out of the swampy night and into this...

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