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Jangdo Island in Yeosu, South Korea

March 9, 2023

When the tide is low, the Jinseom Bridge emerges from the waters off the coast of Yeosu to lead visitors to a tiny island. Public murals, statues, and other works of art decorate the space, which also has a small café. Just be sure to keep an eye on the ocean levels to ensure that your route back to the mainland is clear.

Groundhog’s Day Movie Filming Location and Mural...

March 9, 2023

The 1993 Bill Murray film Groundhog Day may be set in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, but it was primarily filmed in Woodstock, Illinois. The public square that hosts the “Seer of Seer, Prognosticator of Prognosticators” is actually Woodstock Square and the bed and breakfast where Murray’s character Phil stays is still open to the public. Cinephiles can take a walking tour of most of the locations, or stop for a photo at this commemorative mural.

Perth Observatory in Bickley, Australia

March 9, 2023

Perth Observatory was founded in 1896 at Mount Eliza and was moved to Bickley in 1966 when light pollution from the city got too bright. Perth Observatory contributed to many global scientific developments, including co-discovering the rings of Uranus, discovering several minor planets, and more than supernovas. It’s now located in a state forest home to an assortment of wild animals, including a herd of kangaroos that live on the back lawn. Many of the original domes and telescopes...

Museum of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Museo del...

March 9, 2023

The history of Spanish aviation is magnificently summarized in the facilities of the Museum of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Museo del Aire) in Madrid. Created in 1981, the museum’s mission is to collect, preserve, and display the artifacts that make up the historical heritage of Spanish aviation. The museum (which is part of the Spanish Air Force Base of Cuatro Vientos) houses airplanes, uniforms, decorations, engines, models, and other aviation-related items in seven hangars and an outdoor exhibition. The concept...

Tomb of Enrico Rastelli in Bergamo, Italy

March 9, 2023

The year 1896 marked the coronation of Nicholas II as Emperor of Russia, and it just so happened that an Italian circus by the name of Grand Cirque Truzzi was touring Russia while the celebrations were taking place. Prominent among the artists performing in this circus were Alberto and Giulia Rastelli, a young couple who were showcasing their skills as jugglers and aerialists. Towards the end of that eventful year (19 December), their first son, Enrico, was born in...

The Untold Stories of the Women Who...

March 9, 2023

In Atlas Obscura’s Q&A series She Was There, we talk to female scholars who are writing long-forgotten women back into history. In scrawling cursive, an English enslaver named Robert Norris, captain of the slave ship The Unity, wrote an entry in his log marked June 6, 1770: “The slaves made an Insurrection which was soon quelled…with the loss of two woman slaves.” On June 22, “the slaves attempted another Insurrection after the death of a girl slave.” Then again,...

Podcast: More Wonders in Your Backyard

March 9, 2023

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, our team shares stories of wonder and curiosity, the kind that can lie just beyond your doorstep. We’d love to hear from you, too! Tell us about a wonder in your backyard by recording a voice memo and send it to hello@atlasobscura.com, or leaving a voicemail at 315-992-7902. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous,...

The Female Architect Behind Buenos Aires's Underground...

March 8, 2023

During a recent spring afternoon in Buenos Aires, some 70 people crowded into a narrow, subterranean corridor straining to hear an actor in a blue dress. “This place doesn’t exist in the annals of Argentinian architecture,” the actor informed them in Spanish, motioning to two columbariums stacked 14 niches tall. “And the architect’s signature isn’t hidden in any of this monument’s walls.” The group was gathered in the Sixth Pantheon, a two-level labyrinth of crypts, tunnels, and sunken gardens...

Podcast: The Dedan Kimathi Post Office Tree

March 8, 2023

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a tree in a Kenyan national park that served as an informal “post office” during the nation’s struggle for independence. 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 and hear their...

8 Unexpected Stories That Go Behind the...

March 8, 2023

Each year the Academy Awards ceremony celebrates talents on the silver screen—but Atlas Obscura likes it behind the scenes, where movie magic is made from unexpected ingredients (think celery and whipped cream) and in unusual places (an abandoned Paris subway platform and one particular Los Angeles alley). Here are some of our favorite Atlas Obscura stories that reveal a different side of Tinseltown. The Forgotten ‘China Girls’ Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films by Sarah Laskow Few people...

Inside Greenland's Misunderstood Winter Delicacy

March 7, 2023

For many in northwest Greenland, the iconic flavor of winter is that of fermented meat, perhaps most iconically kiviaq, a dish made by packing 300 to 500 whole dovekies—beaks, feathers, and all—into the hollowed-out carcass of a seal, snitching it up and sealing it with fat, then burying it under rocks for a few months to ferment. Once it’s dug up and opened, people skin and eat the birds one at a time. Plates of these small fermented seabirds...

By Air, Land, or Sea, Tiny Microbes...

March 7, 2023

Excerpted and adapted with permission from Slime: A Natural History, by Susanne Wedlich. Published February 2023 by Melville House. All rights reserved. A haboob is a dust storm. It’s an Arabic word for a phenomenon that struck the American Midwest like a plague of biblical proportions just under a century ago. This storm was not the work of God’s chastising hand, though; it was the worst man-made environmental catastrophe the United States has ever seen. East of the Rocky...

A Cougar Swam Puget Sound, Making a...

March 7, 2023

On January 26, 2020, biologists with the Olympic Cougar Project slipped a collar around the thick, tawny neck of a tranquilized adolescent cougar in an evergreen forest outside of Shelton, Washington. M161 was about a year and a half old, roughly 100 pounds, and still traveling with his mother, who was also caught and collared. For the next four months, the scientists tracked mother and offspring as they rambled around the woods together. By May 2020, it was time...

Podcast: Ouija Board 7-Eleven

March 7, 2023

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we examine the history of the Ouija Board, from a tool for communicating with the dead to a sleepover party game, with a pit stop at the Ouija 7-Eleven. 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...

The Stories and Saviors Behind Heirloom Seeds

March 6, 2023

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE MARCH 4, 2023, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. Gastro Obscura readers, has it seemed like a long, cold winter to you? I’m more than ready to say goodbye to icy mornings and early sunsets. The best way to endure bad weather and bad times, I’ve found, is to get ready for sunnier days ahead. That’s not a perky aphorism. I’ve been using these interminable winter nights...

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