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Wichita State University Plane Crash Site in...

October 14, 2022

On the afternoon of October 2, 1970, workers on the Eisenhower Tunnel construction project reported hearing an explosion on the mountainside just northeast of the tunnel’s eastern entrance. Looking north, the mountaintop appeared to be on fire. The project workers were the first on the scene, discovering the remains of the Wichita State football team’s plane, which had crashed into the mountain and melded into the dirt. Of the 40 passengers on board, only 11 remained alive after the...

The Spooky Science of Why Mirrors Can...

October 14, 2022

Beyond the Las Vegas Strip’s dazzling lights, something darker awaits Sin City visitors who venture into celebrity ghost hunter Zak Bagans’s Haunted Museum. There, the spooky memorabilia ranges from Ted Bundy’s glasses to fragments of Charles Manson’s bones, scraped from the incinerator after his body was cremated. There’s also a rather plain-looking mirror, about two feet tall and shaped like a tombstone. Bagans has said that, of his entire collection, it’s one of the things that unnerves him the...

Toilets at the Philharmonic Dining Rooms in...

October 14, 2022

The outside of this building is a stunning example of how serious the Victorians were about drinking establishments, a purpose-built pub that is as lavish as a museum. A set of elaborate Art Nouveau-style gates lead into a pub filled with mahogany carvings, elaborate fireplaces, and an intricate tile mosaic bar. But for many, the real draw is the gentlemen’s toilets. In Notes From A Small Island, Bill Bryson wrote, “there is no place in the world finer for a pee than...

Rising Sun Revolving Door in Yokohama, Japan

October 14, 2022

Right outside Yokohama’s old Chinatown, there is a revolving door on one side of an apartment building, painted in vivid turquoise. While most tourists walk past it without a single glance, an oft-overlooked historical marker indicates that it is, in fact, a valuable piece from the past. The apartment building, named EXTE Yamashita Kōen, stands on the former site of the Rising Sun Petroleum Co. headquarters, built in 1929 in the wake of the calamitous Great Kantō earthquake. Designed...

The Real-Life Vampire Autopsies of the Victorian...

October 14, 2022

On a winter morning in 1892, several men gathered in a rural Rhode Island cemetery to dig up a family of vampires. First they exhumed Mary Eliza Brown, who had died eight years early of consumption; they found her body partially mummified. Next was her elder daughter, Mary Olive. She had died not long after her mother of the same disease; nothing remained but bones and hair. Finally, the men removed Mary’s younger daughter, Mercy, from the family crypt,...

Solving the Mystery of the Seated Man

October 14, 2022

In a 17th-century castle called Belton House just outside of the town of Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, there’s a mysterious painting of a black man in profile. He’s wearing a straw hat, a torn white shirt, with his arms resting on his left leg. Seated in front of what looks to be a landscape painting, the model looks relaxed, perhaps even bored. At the bottom of the portrait, there is a signature that has long baffled art historians. “The...

La Trobe Swing Bridge in Sale, Australia

October 14, 2022

This unique bridge is the work of the renowned Australian architect and civil engineer John Grainger. It’s one of the oldest surviving swing bridges in Australia, being constructed between 1880-1883, and is regarded as one of the engineering wonders of Gippsland, being able to swing through 360 degrees. A few minutes drive south from Sale, the National Trust classified Swing Bridge is located at the junction of the Thomson and Latrobe Rivers. The bridge was designed to swing open...

Alux House at San Pedro Hotel in...

October 14, 2022

La Quinta Avenida is the main touristic street of the resort city of Playa del Carmen. As such, walking along, you will find many expected sights such as fast food restaurants, bars, and souvenir shops. Looking into the gardened courtyard of the San Pedro Hotel, you can also find a very unexpected sight: a small wooden structure, similar to a doghouse, painted in bright colors. Above the entrance, the word “ALUX” is spelled out in big letters, as if...

Paul Revere Capture Site in Lincoln, Massachusetts

October 14, 2022

Although Paul Revere was in fact a rider during the night of April 18, 1775, the account of him being a lone rider popularized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem Paul Revere’s Ride, is far from the truth. Most people associate with Revere saying “The British are coming!” when in reality, many residents of colonial Massachusetts considered themselves British and this statement would have made little sense. According to historians based on eyewitness accounts, Revere apparently said “The Regulars are coming...

Get Lost in the Catacombs With Our...

October 13, 2022

Michelle Boggess-Nunley is a Grosse Pointe, Michigan-based artist who holds the Guinness World Record for the biggest hand-drawn maze. This is Michelle’s second original puzzle for Atlas Obscura. Check out her first here! When I’m creating a maze, I often focus on real places. I dive into research of a landscape and the attributes of the location. In this case, and to celebrate Halloween, I went to the Paris Catacombs. They are a natural fit for maze-making—a real-life maze...

This Nearly Lost Ancient Grain Tradition Could...

October 13, 2022

When Zemede Asfaw was growing up on a farm in eastern Ethiopia, he soaked up plant lore and other traditional knowledge the way a tree takes in sunlight and converts it to energy. “I knew the crops, and the wild plants, and the fruits and other things,” says Zemede, who goes by his given name. The practical methods he learned covered every aspect of farming: Instead of stone walls or wire fences, plant field edges with darker crops, so...

The Long, Extremely Witchy History of Telling...

October 13, 2022

Shortly before his death in 1700, John Hale, a Puritan reverend from Beverly, Massachusetts, decided to document a dark historical moment. His posthumously published work, A Modest Inquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft, is one of the few written records from someone present at the Salem Witch Trials. Whether or not Hale is a reliable narrator, he certainly had the credentials to write such a text. At the age of 12, he saw his first execution of a convicted...

IFC Center Peephole in New York, New...

October 13, 2022

Upon exiting the West 4th Street subway in New York City, just across from the famous “Cage” street basketball court, you will find the IFC Center. The theater features independent and foreign films. But if you don’t feel like buying a ticket, there is a secret way to get a peek inside, and even watch a film, right from the sidewalk. When facing the entrance, look for a small metal circle about five feet from the ground. On the...

Spiral Tunnels at the Big Hill in...

October 13, 2022

While Canada was building its own railway across the country to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific in the late 19th century, it came across a major engineering obstacle in the Rocky Mountains of British Colombia. At the Kicking Horse Pass in today’s Yoho National Park, a hill that came to be known simply as “the Big Hill” would become the site of one of the most steeply graded sections of train track ever attempted. After a number of...

The Disney Collection in Orlando, Florida

October 13, 2022

The Magic Kingdom isn’t Orlando’s only spot for Disney enchantment. An unassuming corner inside downtown’s Orlando Public Library offers a whole new world of the park and its history. The Disney Collection is the city’s 50-year-old trove of documents chronicling Walt Disney World, from groundbreaking in the 1960s to the present. Tucked into a row of shelves and dusty filing cabinets Sneezy would hate, the collection houses more than 200 books, dozens of periodicals, hundreds of pieces of memorabilia,...

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