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Elphinstone Tower in Dunmore, Scotland

October 7, 2022

Elphinstone Tower, also known as Dunmore Tower or Airth Tower, is a ruined tower house currently sitting within the Dunmore Estate. Originally, the tower would have had views across the low-lying ground to the River Forth. The tower dates to the early 16th century, when it was built by Sir John Elphinstone as the seat of the barony of Elphinstone. Before his death in 1638 Alexander Elphinstone, the 4th Lord of Elphinstone had added a gallery and a new hall to the...

Captain Thunderbolt Statue in Uralla, Australia

October 7, 2022

Frederick Ward, more famously known as “Captain Thunderbolt”, had become something of a folk hero due to his gentlemanly behavior and his tendency to avoid violence. His bushranging included roaming across a vast area of New South Wales, from the Hunter Valley to the Queensland border. Less than three months after escaping from prison at Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbor for the second time in 1863, Ward laid in wait at Split Rock to rob the mail coach. Seven years...

Why Isn’t the Most British of Masks...

October 7, 2022

With bulging eyes, long, black braids, and an unnervingly large grin, Supay, lord of underground mines and other dark spaces, leers at visitors from his spot beside other art from Bolivia. Just downstairs, a geometrically patterned face sporting three horns adorned with monkey fur stares blankly across a room crowded with other Congolese artifacts. Steps away, an exquisite Torres Strait shark mask, made of tortoise shell, looks like it could come alive on its display stand. The British Museum...

76th Street Subway Station in Queens, New...

October 7, 2022

New York City’s century-old subway system has a labyrinth’s worth of abandoned tunnels and stops. But the 76th Street station in Queens is by far the most mysterious. Why? Because the 76th Street station may not exist at all. According to the New York Times, the bricked-up stop “has been rumored to sit just east of the Euclid Avenue station, part of a grand, never-realized plan to continue the A line out to 229th Street.” Why that plan was...

Grotte di Labante in Labante, Italy

October 6, 2022

In the Apennine hills south of Bologna is the natural (if improbable) grotto called the Grotte di Labante. In the area nearby they used to quarry a type of sedimentary limestone called travertino, and the grotto is formed from this limestone. A spring flows from the nearby Chiesa di San Cristofano through this cave system and gathers in a small, clear pool. That pool sits by one of the cave’s two main entrances, which are linked by a relatively...

The Blue Apples Of Rennes-le-Château in Rennes-le-Château,...

October 6, 2022

Every year on January 17, pilgrims go to the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Rennes-le-Château to witness a mysterious light phenomenon known pommes bleues (blue apples). Around midday, the sun streams through the church’s stained glass windows, projecting numerous strange multicolored orbs that are said to resemble apples onto the religious friezes inside. The blue apples are mentioned in ancient parchments supposedly discovered by parish priest Bérenger Saunière hidden in the church altar. These papers fuelled the legends and stories...

Of Alley and the Duke’s Streets in...

October 6, 2022

Until the 1670s, at the edge of London’s River Thames, stood York House, the mansion property of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. In 1672 however, Villiers had fallen on hard times financially and so when the developer Nicholas Barbon asked to purchase the land, Villiers was glad to accept the £30,000 offered (an amount equivalent to more than £5 million in 2022). The agreement was made on the condition that the proposed development would pay homage to Villiers, therefore...

The Hidden South Confessional in Arabi, Louisiana

October 6, 2022

Brent Walker, creator of the Hidden South, is gifted at discovering hidden treasures. His career as a photographer and location scout honed his skills in discovering secret places. But his sixth sense of discovery extends beyond places and objects. Brent sees hidden treasures in people cast off by society. As a recovering addict for over two decades, Brent believes lives headed for destruction can be redirected and restored. He is living proof. While scouting, he befriended dozens of folks...

Duddo Five Stones in Duddo, England

October 6, 2022

The Duddo Five Stones are a stone circle found in Northumberland. They date to either the Neolithic or Bronze Age. Previously, this structure was known as the Four Stones, but in 1903 a fifth stone was found nearby and re-erected to “improve” the skyline. But the five-stone layout is still not the original layout of the circle, as archaeologists have found that there were originally six or seven standing stones. An excavation in the 1890s found the empty sockets of two...

The Curse of the Viking Sally, the...

October 6, 2022

A powerful low-pressure system moving east from Norway brought sheets of icy rain, strong winds, and 20-foot waves to the Baltic Sea on the evening of September 27, 1994. The Estonia had left her home port of Tallinn 15 minutes behind the scheduled 7 p.m. departure, and now she was slicing through the murky, frigid waters at maximum speed, her engines pushing the 510-foot ship hard as the crew tried to make up time for the morning arrival in...

Chirori the Therapy Dog in Tokyo, Japan

October 6, 2022

The title of Japan’s most famous dog undisputedly goes to Hachikō, whose incredible story has been passed on for generations through books and films, even getting a Hollywood adaptation. Compared to him, Chirori the Therapy Dog is more than a bit obscure, even to the general Japanese public, but pay Tsukijigawa-Ginza Park a visit and visitors will find a lifelike sculpture dedicated to the dog. A mixed-breed dog born circa 1992, Chirori was found at a garbage dump in Matsudo...

How Homes in Bali Are Designed for...

October 6, 2022

Each evening before he goes to bed, I Wayan Gama completes a simple ritual to protect his family as they sleep. The artist walks through the tidy grounds of his family’s compound in Keliki, a jungle-draped village in Bali, Indonesia, and locks the metal doors of the stone gateway that is the sole entrance and exit. He does this not to deter criminals, but to block something less visible but just as potentially harmful. This Hindu-majority island in the...

Podcast: Kalakuta Museum

October 6, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit Kalatuka, the Lagos, Nigeria, home of iconic musician Fela Kuti. In 1970, he declared it an independent state. In 1977, it was invaded by the Nigerian Army. 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...

In Scotland, Trick or Treaters Sing (And...

October 5, 2022

The Halloween holiday has deep roots in Scotland. Starting out as the Celtic festival of Samhain, it marked the end of the summer and the harvest, and the coming of the dark winter. Over the years, Samhain developed into Halloween and spread around the world. But the Americanization of Halloween—through television, films, and both-ways immigration—means that Scottish children wear Toy Story costumes and carry plastic pumpkins to gather sweets from their neighbors. There is, though, still one big difference...

Five Vampire Stories You Haven’t Heard Yet

October 5, 2022

Vampire lore reaches back more than a millennium, to the first known written reference to the undead bloodsuckers in an Old Russian religious text. And Dracula scholar Edward G. Petitt doesn’t think our interest in them will ever die. “That fascination is rooted in our anxiety over death,” he says. “And vampires are tied up in the way we relate to each other and how we relate to each other in intimate ways.” These five favorite Atlas Obscura stories...

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