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Villa Tabaiba in La Oliva, Spain

July 10, 2025

Tucked along the sun-bleached road that slices through the dunes of Corralejo, Villa Tabaiba bursts from the landscape like a mirage dreamt up by Salvador Dalí. From the outside, it’s already a spectacle: a whitewashed wall animated by colorful mosaics and half-submerged sculptures — a mermaid here, a mannequin there — beckoning the curious to look closer. This kaleidoscopic home is the life’s canvas of Carlos Calderón Yruegas, a Sevillian-born architect turned multi-hyphenate artist. After decades of minimalist design...

Brick Lane Roundels in London, England

July 10, 2025

Brick Lane is a street that lies in the Tower Hamlets neighborhood of east London. It is situated between Bethnal Green, to the east and Spitalfields Market to the west. It is a lively district due to its active and prosperous Bangladeshi community. This is reflected in the numerous curry houses and fabric outlets that dot the area. Earlier generations have left their own mark on the area, including French Huguenots and Ashkenazi Jews. In the mid-1990s, a community organization named Bethnal...

Billy Wynt in Llantrisant, Wales

July 10, 2025

Billy Wynt is an unusually named cylindrical stone structure standing on a hilltop outside the village of Llantrisant in south Wales. The relatively austere single-story building has only a door on the outside and a staircase on the inside. However, Billy Wynt’s name is not the most unusual aspect of this stubby building. The history of the building is so unclear that no one really knows when exactly it was constructed or what its original purpose was. Traditional histories...

Toni Moreno’s Cactus Nursery in Ses Salines,...

July 10, 2025

Far from Mallorca’s bustling beaches and resort towns, nestled among quiet agricultural fields near Ses Salines, lies an unexpected and striking sight: Cactus Toni Moreno. This expansive cactus nursery stretches across open land, its neatly arranged rows of towering succulents and desert plants visible even from the roadside. The landscape appears almost surreal — like a sculptural desert garden unfolding in the middle of the Mediterranean countryside. With thousands of cacti in countless shapes and sizes, the site blurs...

Worms Cathedral in Worms, Germany

July 10, 2025

A gem of Romanesque architecture, Worms Cathedral — the Dom St. Peter — lords over one of the most important cities in Christian history. In December 1048, Bishop Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg received his papal nomination in Worms, and traveled to Rome to become Pope Leo IX. He became a major player in the Great Schism of 1054, which divided the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. In 1122, the Concordat of Worms was signed by Pope Callixtus II and...

Torreón de Pinto (Tower of Pinto) in...

July 9, 2025

Once part of a larger medieval fortification, the Torreón de Pinto is a 14th-century tower with a dark past. Far from being a mere fortification, it served as a prison for members of the Spanish nobility — most notably the enigmatic Princess of Éboli and the royal secretary Antonio Pérez, both entangled in the deadly intrigues of Philip II’s court. Beneath the tower, a gloomy cellar reportedly doubled as a torture chamber. Today, the tower stands in the heart...

Biscari Palace in Catania, Italy

July 9, 2025

The Biscari Palace presents an unassuming front on a street not far from the Catania Duomo, but enter and you are transported to a mid-18th century world of rococo ballrooms, mirrors, marquetry and Roman mosaic floors. The Palazzo was built after the devastation of the 1693 earthquake, extended and added to by subsequent generations, and completed in 1763. Visitors can see a range of rooms, including the large and exquisitely decorated Rococo ballroom, and the equally beautiful private quarters,...

Qin Hui Statue at Yue Fei Temple...

July 9, 2025

While most statues exist to honor an individual, these statues of Qin Hui and his wife, Lady Wang, along with two subordinates, were made for the purpose of humiliation. Presented kneeling on the ground with heads bowed in shame, these statues have been spit on, cursed, beat, and struck by shoes of visitors to this temple for centuries. But what did Qin Hui do to earn this legacy? To answer that question, we must first meet Yue Fei. A...

How Was Your First Trip With Your...

July 9, 2025

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Dylan Thuras: Hey, everybody, Dylan here. So at the beginning of this year, we made an episode about traveling with a significant other for the first time, and we got just a ton of stories. And so we decided to do another episode. People are very fond of talking about all the things that went wrong or maybe went right. This is an edited transcript of the...

Salt Canyon in Dalol, Ethiopia

July 9, 2025

Just a 10-minute drive from Dalol, or a 20-minute drive from Lake Assale in northern Ethiopia is a mysterious canyon. Although temperatures are often in the 90s or higher, it looks as if it’s been dusted with snow that never seems to melt. The canyon does not really have a name. It is aptly referred to as the “Salt Canyon” because of the fine layer of white salt the covers everything. The nearby salt lake, Lake Assale, also known...

Rembrandt’s Christ on the Cross in Le...

July 9, 2025

Le Mas d’Agenais is a picturesque village overlooking the Garonne River, approximately halfway between the cities of Toulouse and Bordeaux. Its small parish church, Église Saint Vincent, is the unlikely home of a painting produced in 1631 by Rembrandt. Measuring 100 by 73 centimeters (about 39 by 29 inches), the oil-on-panel artwork depicts a tormented Christ on the cross set against a dark landscape. Stylistically, the work is similar to the Passion series of paintings produced around the same...

The Cave of Cervantes in Belouizdad, Algeria

July 9, 2025

In 1575, Miguel de Cervantes, after fighting on behalf of Spain during its war against the Ottoman Empire and being badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto, left the army with his younger brother Rodrigo and boarded a ship for Spain. During bad weather, their ship separated from its companion galleons and was attacked by corsairs, or pirates, of the Regency of Algiers. Miguel and Rodrigo were captured and imprisoned in a disused bath house in Algiers. Based on...

Mount Davis and Jubilee Batteries in Hong...

July 9, 2025

Completed in 1912 on Hong Kong Island’s westernmost hill, the Mount Davis Battery served as an important fortification for the British armed forces during the territory’s colonial era. Overlooking the western approach to Victoria Harbor and the surrounding islands to the west, the battery was a most vital defensive structure. In the early 1930s, the British recognized the need to strengthen fortifications, and started construction of the Jubilee Battery on the lower portion of Mount Davis, which was completed...

Glymur in Iceland

July 8, 2025

In the moss-draped depths of the Hvalfjörður fjord, just a short detour from Reykjavík, lies a secret that roars. But you won’t find Glymur waterfall from your car window — this towering cascade, once thought to be Iceland’s tallest, makes you earn the encounter. At 198 meters (650 feet), Glymur falls into a narrow canyon carved by the river through the millennia. The name “Glymur” comes from the Icelandic verb glymja (to echo or resound) and fittingly, the waterfall...

RSU Anatomy Museum in Rīga, Latvia

July 8, 2025

In 1920, the scientists Gaston Backman and Jēkabs Prīmanis at the University of Latvia began assembling a collection of anatomical materials to be used for teaching and research at the university. This collection would grow over two decades and would eventually contain thousands of items. Rīga Stradiņš University made the collection available for public viewing in 2020, and the collection is now displayed within a small building next to its Theatrum Anatomicum (or Institute of Anatomy and Anthropology). Spread...

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