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The Atlas Obscura Crossword: January Themeless

January 1, 2024

Atlas Obscura’s weekly crossword comes to us from Natan Last, a writer who also helps develop policy and digital products for refugees and asylum seekers. His work can be found in The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications, and he’s currently working on a nonfiction book about crosswords. You can solve the puzzle below, or download it in .pdf or .puz. Note that the links in the clues will take you to Atlas...

Gemfield in Goldfield, Nevada

January 1, 2024

Nevada’s desert landscape is chock full of natural gemstone and minerals awaiting discovery, but when it comes to chalcedony, Gemfield is the cream of the crop. Located in western central Nevada, this public dig site is believed to hold the United States’ largest deposit of gemstone-quality chalcedony. This smooth, quartz stone—whose varieties include agate, jasper, and opalite—is prized for its hardness and luster and is ideal for polishing and for creating jewelry. Gemfield’s chalcedony appears in many shapes, patterns,...

Space Whale in Reno, Nevada

January 1, 2024

Thanks to some creative negotiating, Reno, Nevada is now the permanent home of a full-scale, stained glass art installation representing a humpback whale and her calf. Space Whale is a 50-foot-tall, 30,000-pound sculpture made of steel lattice and nearly 2,000 stained glass panels At night the entire piece—located on the grounds of downtown’s City Plaza—lights up from within. Space Whale debuted atBurning Man in 2016, a “testament to family, our relationships with nature, time and space, and our responsibility...

12 Revenue Management Tips for Hotels

December 31, 2023

Revenue Management Tips for Hotels Revenue management tips are strategies and best practices used to optimize the financial performance of a business, particularly in sectors like hospitality and travel. These tips involve pricing strategies, demand forecasting, market analysis, and inventory control to maximize revenue. They are crucial for businesses to remain competitive, adapt to market The post 12 Revenue Management Tips for Hotels appeared first on Revfine.com.

How to Celebrate the New Year in...

December 30, 2023

Picture this: It’s dark out, the kind of pitch black that comes with winter in the far north. You’re walking with friends around town when you hear a noise, followed by some heavy breathing nearby. Two large figures emerge from around the corner, one carrying a harpoon, the other wearing seal skins and holding a long chain. Both have faces smeared with soot and distorted by tightly wound strings across their noses. You start looking for an exit, but...

L'église de Saint-Salvayre in Alet-les-Bains, France

December 29, 2023

L’église de Saint-Salvayre is a 12th-century church that sits 750 meters above the medieval town of Alet Le Bains in the Aude. Like many places in the region, it plays its part in the Grail legends that radiate from ground zero for conspiracy aficionados, Rennes Le Chateau. Indeed, this rough, minuscule building claims one of the biggest secrets of all. The church and the adjoining hamlet sit at the end of a rutted, narrow road that climbs inexorably from...

Glykon in Constanța, Romania

December 29, 2023

In a gallery room of the National History and Archaeology Museum in Constanța, Romania, lives a very old snake. This is the Glykon, an ancient serpent god with a lamb’s snout, human hair, lion’s tail, and snake’s body, all carved out of marble. The Glykon was a protective deity of family and home, and also considered a god of fertility. He was worshiped throughout the Roman Empire’s provinces, particularly near the Black Sea. One of the most striking aspects...

2023 Was a Year Full of Mysteries

December 29, 2023

At Atlas Obscura, we’re obsessed with the unknown. Whether it’s a tale of ghostly murder that still induces chills two centuries later or a taxidermy marvel that seems to defy reason, we love a rabbit hole with no clear end in sight. This year, we followed a “huntress of lost treasure” in pursuit of one of the great wedding dresses of history, accompanied scientists looking to uncover the meaning behind thousand-mile-long hexagonal patterns etched into salt flats, and marveled...

Iola Downtown Square in Iola, Kansas

December 29, 2023

Nearing the town of Iola, Kansas, you’ll pass a billboard that reads “Our square is bigger than yours!” In fact, Iola is home to the largest downtown square in the United States, as determined by the local Chamber of Commerce, and the town has aligned its tourism around its big central tract of land. The downtown square was formalized after the completion of the Allen County Courthouse in 1904, but it wasn’t until recently that the town began to...

Our Favorite New Places of 2023

December 29, 2023

Our understanding of the world and what’s in it changes every day. Basement renovations have uncovered underground cities and entire continents have gone missing (then been found again). In 2023, Atlas Obscura’s community helped us share the stories of more than 2,200 places from every corner of the world. Among them was a big milestone: our database of curious and unusual places grew to more than 25,000 entries. Some of these places are ancient wonders shaped by the movement...

Morro do Pai Inácio in Palmeiras, Brazil

December 29, 2023

Chapada Diamantina is an enormous national park in Brazil, a little larger than the state of Maryland. It consists of mountainous plateaus edged by cliffs, some of which are 2,000 feet high. Trekkers in the area can see vistas of wide-open valleys, waterfalls, swimming holes, and underwater lagoons the color of sapphires. From Lençois, a town that serves as the most popular gateway to the park, it’s about a half-hour drive to the trailhead for Morro Do Pai Inácio...

Most States Start School Too Early in...

December 29, 2023

Louisiana’s state bird is the brown pelican. It should be the early bird. High school students in the Bayou State start school on average at 7:30 a.m. That is much earlier than anywhere else in the United States. But it is doubtful those Louisiana students will catch the worm. Studies show that early school starts contribute to sleep debt in adolescents, which is detrimental to their health, both physical and mental. No earlier than 8:30 a.m. That is why...

Bucket Fountain in Wellington, New Zealand

December 29, 2023

The Bucket Fountain is a kinetic sculpture situated on a pedestrian walkway in Wellington’s Cuba District. A series of colorful buckets fill with water until they tip, spilling water into the pool below. The clumsy movement of the buckets seems to miss the pool and splash a considerable amount of water on anyone who dares to walk too close. Erected in 1969, the fountain was designed by Graham Allardice of Burren and Keen. The sculpture was controversial when it...

The Chapel of St. Catherine in Velha...

December 29, 2023

In Old Goa, near the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, there stands a small structure facing north towards the Mandovi River. This historic building is probably the oldest church in Old Goa. It’s known as the Chapel of St. Catherine. It was constructed immediately after the Portuguese conquest of Goa in 1510. Formerly, on this spot, there stood a gate through which the Portuguese entered the city. Afonso de Albuquerque built the chapel commemorating his entry into Goa...

7 Surprising Traditions to Celebrate the New...

December 29, 2023

How will you celebrate the new year? If you were in Sweden a century ago, you might have chosen a solo walk through a creepy, dark forest. In Chicago this year, you might go for a car rally/urban scavenger hunt (“Creative cheating” encouraged). From the medieval Feast of Fools to origins of “Auld Lang Syne,” here are some fresh ideas from the Atlas Obscura archives. Do Americans Sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ Because of a Frat Party? by April White...

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