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Finca Descalzos Viejos in Ronda, Spain

October 25, 2022

Finca Descalzos Viejos (“the Barefoot Old Men”) offers guests the chance to sip fine Spanish wines underneath well-preserved Medieval frescoes. The rustic accommodations were originally built on the cliffs of Ronda by the Catholic Trinitarian Order in 1505. When they vacated the finca, they passed the premises onto the Descalzos Viejos, an order of monks famous for their lack of footwear. Due to a number of foundational issues caused by earthquakes and landslides, among other things, the Descalzos Viejos abandoned...

Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in Ramah, New...

October 25, 2022

Down a dusty dirt road in western New Mexico lies the small community of Candy Kitchen, founded by a moonshiner in the Prohibition era and host to a variety of ranchers, artists, and plain old hermits. While Candy Kitchen today has a high proportion of interesting citizens, perhaps none are more fascinating than its non-human residents. Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary was founded in 1991 by the artist Jacque Evans, who used the revenue from her art to build a...

The Secret History of Female and Nonbinary...

October 25, 2022

In Atlas Obscura’s Q&A series She Was There, we talk to female scholars who are writing long-forgotten women back into history. On Thursday, April 18, 1985, Nancy Reagan sat down for tea with an unusual friend. In a quiet corner of the White House, the pair discussed the previous night’s dinner, and how the secretary of state tried to dance with a young starlet. Then they got down to business—the president’s schedule. Would this weekend trip to Camp David...

Caballero No. 1 in Albacete, Spain

October 25, 2022

Albacete is one of the most important cities in La Mancha. It is the capital of the province of Albacete and if you ever feel like sightseeing there, the Museo de Albacete is as good a place as any. One of the most impressive pieces in the museum is Caballero No. 1, a sculpture that dates back to 490 B.C. The statue of a rider on horseback was discovered in 1982 during an excavation in the necropolis of Los...

Mel Blanc’s Grave in Los Angeles, California

October 25, 2022

Hollywood Forever Cemetery serves as a resting place for as many a star as there are in the sky, so you may not be amazed to come across the grave of a world-famous celebrity there. But some also come with amusing epitaphs or fascinating designs, and one of them says it all in just three words: “That’s all, folks!” Of course, this is the grave of Mel Blanc, the Man of a Thousand Voices, who gave his heart and...

'The DunBear' in Dunbar, Scotland

October 25, 2022

A towering steel bear stands in Dunbar, a Scottish town that stands on the coast of the North Sea. The sculpture, officially named The DunBear, is built of structural steel and covered with stainless-steel cladding. It was built as a tribute to the naturalist John Muir, who was born just down the road. The sculpture was created in 2019 by Scottish sculptor Andy Scott, who is best known for his sculpture The Kelpies in Falkirk. He described the work as...

Fishbone Alley in Gulfport, Mississippi

October 25, 2022

This alley represents the efforts to revitalize downtown Gulfport post-Katrina. Many of the buildings and infrastructure in downtown Gulfport were badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. While construction was underway a few years later, brick pavers from the early 20th century were discovered under the asphalt. In 2016, the pavers were used as part of a new economic development project called “Fishbone Alley.” The brick pavers underfoot in the tiny alleyway give residents and visitors a glimpse of...

Satoshi Nakamoto Bust in Budapest, Hungary

October 25, 2022

There is a well-known statue in Budapest’s City Park that ominously stares at visitors from under a hood. The statue of the anonymous notary along King Béla 3rd, and while the statue’s visage is somewhat hidden, it is very well known. The sculpture depicts the person (or persons) commonly accredited for the creation of Bitcoin and the first blockchain database that paved the way for cryptocurrency. The pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, has left all to wonder who the true inventors...

Mount Roosevelt Friendship Tower in Deadwood, South...

October 25, 2022

Seth Bullock was the first sheriff of Deadwood, South Dakota. He first met Theodore Roosevelt in 1892, while the future president was traveling through the Dakotas. They developed a close friendship over the years: Bullock fought in the Spanish-American War and helped campaign for Roosevelt in the presidential election of 1900. After Roosevelt died in 1919, Bullock saw that his friend was honored in Deadwood. He worked with the Society of Black Hills Pioneers to change the name of Sheep Mountain...

Grave of Charles Stratton in Bridgeport, Connecticut

October 25, 2022

Born in 1838 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Stratton ceased growing at six months, ending up with an adult height of 40 inches—a condition that is today called pituitary dwarfism. When he was five years old, Stratton was hired by P.T. Barnum and worked in stage shows at the showman’s American Museum under the pseudonym “General Tom Thumb.” Stratton learned to sing, dance, and imitate famous people of the time and regularly toured the world with Barnum, quickly becoming an international...

Can Glowing 'Ray Cats' Save Humanity?

October 25, 2022

Olkiluoto is a pine-covered island jutting out into the Baltic Sea, just off the western coast of Finland. Beneath the surface, there’s 2-billion-year-old bedrock made mostly of gneiss, hard as steel. It’s here that engineers are digging a facility known as Onkalo, Finnish for “cavity” or “pit.” They’re constructing a tomb, a quarter of a mile underground, to store spent uranium rods from nuclear power plants for the next 100,000 years. And depending on who you ask, future generations...

Denby Dale Pie Tin in Denby Dale,...

October 25, 2022

During the final years of the 18th century, Denby Dale, then only a collection of small hillside farms and cottages, began an ever-growing culinary tradition. This tradition began in 1788 when the small village baked a communal pie to celebrate King George III’s mental health recovery. In 1815, two sheep and 20 fowl were baked in a “Victory Pie” in honor of the British success at the Battle of Waterloo. The next pie was baked three decades later in...

Podcast: Houdini's Grave

October 25, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, join producer Johanna Mayer as she visits the grave of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini in Queens, New York—and goes searching for evidence of the great beyond. 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...

Essential Skills and Characteristics in Marketing Leadership...

October 25, 2022

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel What are the essential skills and characteristics that hotels should look for when recruiting for Marketing leadership roles? What advice can you offer to hotels in this position? Our Marketing Expert Panel Adele Gutman – Culture and Guest Experience Expert, Hospitality The post Essential Skills and Characteristics in Marketing Leadership Roles appeared first on Revfine.com.

The Curious Connection Between Food and Cults

October 25, 2022

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE OCTOBER 21, 2022, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. Food historian Sarah Lohman’s interest in food and cults began with a beautiful set of silverware. After spotting the case of cutlery at a thrift store in Vermont, she wondered who made them and turned the box over. The back held one word: Oneida. “I found out that Oneida was a 19th-century cult that, among other things, made...

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