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Old Irontown in Cedar City, Utah

August 12, 2022

Known as Utah’s first ghost town, the ruins of Old Irontown can be found 22 miles from Cedar City. Southern Utah saw a population boom in the 1850s as Mormon pioneers were called to populate the area by Brigham Young after iron was discovered there. The pioneers of this ghost town needed iron as part of their daily lives, and they used it in everything from Dutch ovens to wagon wheels. The Great Western Iron Company built two charcoal...

Sweden's Geographical Midpoint in Torpshammar, Sweden

August 12, 2022

Calculating the center of a country is a difficult and often controversial task. There are many different methods of finding such a point, varying in complexity and popularity. The midpoint at Flataklocken is the “geometrical” center of Sweden, which accounts for the country’s islands without measuring the water in between. Geographers Nils Friberg and Tor Andeldorf of Stockholm University calculated the point in 1947. They did so using a rigid map of the country that had the islands of...

The Living Obwarzanek Museum (Żywe Muzeum Obwarzanka)...

August 11, 2022

If the obwarzanek is the offspring of a bagel and a pretzel, then Kraków is its birthplace. You’ll see the doughy ringlets sold throughout the city from street carts, but if you’re craving a deeper dive into all things obwarzanek, then take a trip to a museum dedicated to the baked good. At the Żywe Muzeum Obwarzanka, you’ll learn the history of the centuries-old obwarzanek, but perhaps more importantly, you’ll also learn how to make it yourself. There’s no stale...

1929 Phillips 66 Station in McLean, Texas

August 11, 2022

A sign on the side of this restored gas station claims that this location, which opened in 1929, was the first Phillips 66 station in the state of Texas. (Though another Phillips 66 gas station in Turkey, Texas, is slightly older, having opened in 1928.) According to Roadside America, the Phillips 66 station in McLean operated for more than 50 years before it closed down. In 1992, the building and gas pumps were partially restored by a local Route...

Should Casablanca's Iconic Buildings Be Saved?

August 11, 2022

In downtown Casablanca, Morocco, next to the city’s new modern tram line and across from the white arcades of the Marche Central, a building seems to hang in midair. Without a foundation, interior, or roof, the crumbling, brown brick facade floats in space, retaining a strange elegance despite the bristling metal scaffolding that holds it up. On this Saturday morning, a local woman in her fifties, dressed in a yellow-and-purple shirt and armed with a binder, explains the mystery...

Meteorite Crater in Duckwater, Nevada

August 11, 2022

A 1951 article in Popular Astronomy suggested that this enigmatic depression might be a meteorite crater, and a report of a local Native American legend about “a ball of fire rushing from the sky” lent some support. The feature has even given its name (“Meteorite Crater”) to the USGS 7.5′ topographic quadrangle map. However, the feature is not mentioned in the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 99A on the geology of northern Nye County. The depression has been...

There Maybe Could Possibly Be a Treasure...

August 11, 2022

The archives of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library in Portland house many treasures—but only one honest-to-goodness treasure map. “It is an odd thing,” says research services manager Scott Daniels of manuscript number 2039, a scrap of creased and stained tracing cloth kept in the library’s climate-controlled vault. Unfolded, the document is 6 inches tall and 18 inches wide, covered from edge to edge on one side with long strings of blunt capital letters written in blue pencil, and...

Podcast: Friendship Park

August 11, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a binational service at the Border Church at Friendship Park, which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, with one reporter on the American side and another on the Mexican side. Join us to learn more about how changes to the border have affected the park and the community. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous,...

Eating Like an Explorer Once Called for...

August 10, 2022

When British explorer and Royal Navy captain James Cook set sail aboard the HMS Endeavour on August 26, 1768, for an expedition around the Pacific, he brought along 18 months of provisions. These included pigs, poultry, a goat for milking, and a large supply of portable soup. Also known as “pocket soup” or “veal glue,” the latter became a breakfast staple—often reboiled with celery and oatmeal, or mixed with hot water and green pea flour to create an edible...

Podcast: Seven Keys Lodge

August 10, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit the world’s largest random, assorted key collection. It’s located outside Denver, Colorado, and was inspired by a literary infatuation. 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 stories....

Meet the Woman Who Made a Historic...

August 9, 2022

By day, Lauren Tischendorf, 39, is a special education assistant principal in Sydney, Australia. But, outside of work hours, Tischendorf swims, a lot. Just about every day, Tischendorf dives into the Pacific Ocean as part of an intense open-water swimming regime she’s maintained for years. And in 2021, Tischendorf set her sights on something that had never been done before—to become the first woman to circumnavigate the shark-infested waters around Lord Howe Island. Five hundred miles northeast of Sydney,...

Podcast: Trevor Paglen and Experimental Geography

August 9, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, listen as MacArthur Genius Grant winner, artist, and experimental geographer Trevor Pagen and host Dylan Thuras discuss documenting government surveillance, AI, and place. 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...

What Changes in Business Traveller Behaviour Can...

August 8, 2022

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel How will business traveller behaviours change this year? What advice can you share on marketing messages for hybrid stays / workcation / bleisure offers? (Question proposed by Susanne Williams) Our Marketing Expert Panel Daphne Beers – Owner, Your-Q Hospitality Academy Adele The post What Changes in Business Traveller Behaviour Can We Expect in 2022? appeared first on Revfine.com.

How The Thames, Once a 'Zombie River,'...

August 8, 2022

This piece was originally published in Slate and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Around 200 years ago, during the Industrial Revolution, London’s River Thames was both a hub of trade and transport and a dumping ground for human excretion and industrial waste. The cradle of England’s industrial heritage was quickly becoming a glorified sewer. The stench was so unbearable during the sweltering summer of 1858 that it forced some government offices on the riverbank to...

How Scientists Are Using Cake to Share...

August 8, 2022

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE AUGUST 6, 2022, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. I first noticed the #BakeYourResearch phenomenon when I saw a photo of an incredibly gorgeous bûche de Noël on Twitter. It wasn’t posted by a professional baker, but a mycologist, who’d crafted hyper-realistic mushrooms growing out of the log-shaped cake. This mycological masterpiece is not alone. Scientists, engineers, and researchers on social media are using flour and sugar...

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