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Gastro Obscura's 13 Essential Places to Visit...

January 12, 2024

Yes, Paris is the City of Light, and a city that actually, really delivers on all the cliches. But it’s also a big, bustling, intimidating metropolis with all the good and bad, overhyped and the forgotten, the classic and the cutting edge that comes with this. And as with any big, bustling, intimidating metropolis, it helps to have a guide. Rather than put together yet another Paris best list, we’ve assembled some of the restaurants, stalls, bakeries, markets, producers,...

Museo Municipal de Villa Hayes in Villa...

January 12, 2024

Rutherford B. Hayes was born in the city of Delaware, Ohio, where his birthplace is now the site of a British Petroleum gas station. Though the 19th U.S. President is not terribly well-remembered or celebrated in his home country, his legacy is celebrated in another part of the world, which may be surprising: Paraguay. The Villa Hayes Municipal Museum celebrates his foundational role in the country’s history. It is impossible to reflect on Paraguay’s history without acknowledging the Paraguayan War, also...

5 of Our Favorite Podcast Episodes About...

January 12, 2024

It’s to be expected that wildlife carves out special niches in the strange, evolving world we’ve made for them, but creatures big and small continue to surprise with their adaptability. We’ve visited this idea several times on The Atlas Obscura Podcast, so this week we took a look back at some of favorite stories in this specific, fascinating little genre, from the South American spiders that made a home in a Scandinavian museum, to the bats that play a...

One Man's Fight to Preserve Pakistan's Perfect...

January 12, 2024

In 2000, a Japanese tourist walked into Syed Israr Hussain’s guest house in Minapin, Pakistan. While most visitors come to the village, nestled in the Nagar Valley below Rakaposhi mountain in the Karakoram range, to hike or summit the peak, this tourist had a different agenda. The tourist asked—no, “he demanded,” remembers Hussain—to be served a very specific meal. He had fond memories of a delicious chicken stew he had eaten when he visited the village 30 years earlier....

Maria of the Ant Village in Tokyo,...

January 12, 2024

Much of Tokyo was left in ruins after World War II. The city’s poor lived from hand to mouth as scavengers and ragpickers called bataya, who in 1950 established their own neighborhood nicknamed the “Ant Village” around Kototoi Bridge. As the government worked to rebuild and redevelop the city, the bataya community of the Ant Village faced the constant threat of eviction. To buy some time, its central figure, essayist Touru Matsui made up a plan to found a church for...

7 Wild Stories From the Prohibition Era

January 12, 2024

The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect at midnight on January 17, 1920. For 13 years, until the ratification of the 21st Amendment in December 1933, the country was officially dry—but the legacy of the Prohibition Era is less its propriety and more its flamboyant underground drinking culture, a scene populated in the public imagination by daring bootleggers, classy speakeasies, hot jazz, and cool flappers. From a century of distance, the stories of the 1920s...

A Guide to Marketing Hotel Sustainability

January 12, 2024

Today’s travelers aren’t just better-educated and better-informed, they’re more concerned than ever about adopting responsible practices around their journeys. The upshot is that these savvy travelers actively seek experiences and accommodations that align with their values — especially concerning environmental and sustainability practices. Reasons Behind the Popularity of Sustainable Travel There are compelling reasons behind The post A Guide to Marketing Hotel Sustainability appeared first on Revfine.com.

A Murderous Gravestone Grudge Carved a New...

January 11, 2024

Up a gravel road running behind the Nelson’s Chapel church in Lenoir, North Carolina, sits a small cemetery. For about 50 years, one of the stones, marking the grave of twenty-five-year-old Lawrence Nelson, had a remarkable inscription beneath his name: “Murdered and robbed by Hamp Kendall and John Vickers, Sept. 25, 1906.” It’s not every day that a tombstone accuses people of murder. Hamp Kendall and John Vickers had initially been imprisoned for Nelson’s killing—but it turns out both...

Fort De Soto Park in Tierra Verde,...

January 11, 2024

Fort De Soto Park spans over 1,000 acres of five interconnected islands that create a bayou between the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay. It’s the largest park in the county and it offers beautiful beaches and outdoor activities from camping to kayaking to wildlife watching. But there’s also a deep history here, which is reflected in the park’s name. At the end of the 19th century, with the start of the Spanish–American War, there were calls for increased coastal...

Heritage Village in Largo, Florida

January 11, 2024

Located next to the Florida Botanical Gardens, Heritage Village is a living history complex made up of several different real-life sites, from an old service station and garage to a school, barn, log cabin, caboose, and church, featuring hundreds of historic artifacts. Follow the Shirley McPherson nature trail throughout the village grounds, then buy a bottle of Coke from a vintage fridge at the H.C. Smith General Store. This grocery store and meat market, dating to 1915, originally stood...

Replay Amusement Museum in Tarpon Springs, Florida

January 11, 2024

Filled with the pings, dings, whirrs, and bells of a retro arcade, Replay Amusement Museum is buzzing with nostalgia. Founded in 2014 by Brian and Becky Cheaney, the museum began as the couple’s private collection and now features over 120 pinball machines and retro arcade games, from Street Fighter and Donkey Kong Jr. to Frogger, Gauntlet, and many more. Grab the joystick and help guide Pac-Man away from those dreaded side-eyeing ghosts, as he gobbles up pellets and cherries...

Belleview Inn in Belleair, Florida

January 11, 2024

The brainchild of Gilded Age railroad and steamship tycoon Henry Plant, the Belleview Inn dates back to 1897. Plant had a dream of developing Florida’s rail network and making the state a popular vacation spot. His idea worked. In the early 20th century, guests would travel from parts further north to vacation at the stately Queen Anne-style inn, with its romantic peaked gables and sprawling verandas. At 400,000 square feet, the Belleview was the largest wooden structure in the state...

Museum of Motherhood in St. Petersburg, Florida

January 11, 2024

At the Museum of Motherhood, you can sit in a chair made of fabricated breasts, sculpt body parts out of clay, strap on a vest that lets you feel what it’s like to be pregnant, or call your mother from a phone shaped like a pair of giant red lips. Founded in New York in 2003, the museum traveled around the country before finding its current home in St. Pete’s Warehouse District, just five minutes from downtown, inside an...

How John Waters Exploded Velma Von Tussle’s...

January 11, 2024

Douglas Retzler, special effects coordinator for the 1988 movie Hairspray, remembers thinking it “wouldn’t be right to blow up Debbie Harry’s head” during the production. Yet the now-classic film, which would go on to inspire a 2007 adaptation, a Broadway musical, and a live television performance, called for Harry’s beehive hairdo to be explosively launched from her head, fly across the room, and land in a scorched heap amid appalled shrieks. Fortunately, Retzler was able to find a solution...

How Ukraine’s Museum Curators Are Risking Life...

January 11, 2024

When Larysa Kramarenko entered what was left of her brother’s house, a small icon of Jesus Christ hanging on wall was the only thing the Russians had left behind. The invading troops had occupied the northeastern city of Izium for nearly six months before fleeing in panic in the face of a Ukrainian counter-offensive that liberated large swathes of territory in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. “They took absolutely everything from his house,” says Tetyana Fiks, a 37-year-old curator...

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