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La Piedra Escrita in Jayuya, Puerto Rico

April 25, 2022

La Piedra Escrita translates to “the written stone” and resides in Jayuya covered in Taíno petroglyphs from the pre-Columbian era. Located inside the Rio Saliente, La Piedra Escrita partially blocks the path of the river, forming a tidal pool safe for swimming. The area surrounding La Piedra Escrita has picnic tables, viewing towers, and a wooden boardwalk that goes to the river. While the atmosphere invites visitors to float and relax in the natural pool, thrill-seekers often climb la Piedra Escrita and jump...

La Puerta de San Juan in San...

April 25, 2022

La Puerta de San Juan is the last of the five gates that allow access into the walled city of Old San Juan. The vibrant red gate, which stands 16 feet tall and dates back to 1635, is located at the end of El Paseo de la Princesa, the historical promenade of San Juan. When the Spaniards moved from Caparra to the islet of San Juan, now known as Old San Juan, they started to build structures to protect...

Ruta de la Longaniza in Orocovis,...

April 25, 2022

Although many travelers may be familiar with “La Ruta del Lechón” in Cayey, Puerto Rico also has a lesser-known gastronomical route. Located on State Route 156 in the town of Orocovis, you will find “La Ruta de la Longaniza.” This winding road nestled in the mountains of La Cordillera Central, the mountain range traversing Puerto Rico, is known for its longaniza. Longaniza, a long, thin sausage, has roots in Spain and Portugal and was brought to the Americas by...

How Radar Is Helping Track Down Lost...

April 25, 2022

This piece was originally published in Undark and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Over four days last May, members of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, a First Nations community in the interior of British Columbia, oversaw a site survey of around two acres of land surrounding the province’s former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Using an electromagnetic technology called ground penetrating radar (GPR), an archaeology professor charted what appeared to be the grave shafts of 215 children...

Kioskos de Luquillo in Luquillo, Puerto...

April 25, 2022

Kioskos de Luquillo are a row of side-by-side food kiosks with all the best samplings of Puerto Rican cuisine. With everything from fritters to exquisite seafood, Los Kioskos de Luquillo is a popular stop for travelers visiting El Yunque, Luquillo, and Fajardo. Los Kioskos are located right across the Montserrate Beach on Route 3, offering a beachfront, open-air dining experience. The atmosphere is casual and often visitors spend time going back and forth between the kiosks and Monserrate Beach....

Smokey Jack Observatory in Westcliffe in Westcliffe,...

April 25, 2022

Some people might take the night sky for granted. Seeing a cascade of stars is as simple as looking up in those cases. But for others, the night sky is a precious, and dwindling, resource. According to a 2016 New York Times article, “four out of five Americans live in places where they can no longer see the Milky Way.” Westcliffe, Colorado wasn’t going to be one of those places. The tiny town located in the Wet Mountain Valley...

Charco Azul in Almirante Sur, Puerto Rico

April 25, 2022

Just a short drive west of San Juan, is Charco Azul and Cuevas Arenales, a stunning double-dip in nature for the adventurous-minded. Charco los Murielogos de las Cuevas Arenales roughly translates as “Pool of the Bats at Sand Caves” and Charco Azul means “blue-water swimming hole.” Getting to the water itself is a challenge, thanks to a steep walk down. But arriving at the bottom is worth the descent—and the return climb later—as you reach the Rio Morovis. Wading into the river, head...

Piñones, Loíza in Loíza, Puerto Rico

April 25, 2022

Located in Loíza in the north of Puerto Rico, Piñones hosts dozens of food kiosks with traditional Puerto Rican food like mofongo, alcapurrias, and tostones, making it the go-to destination on the Island to enjoy the best of local food and culture. Locals visit to do “chinchorreo”, jumping from food kiosk to food kiosk eating different fritters while enjoying the music, dancing, or talking about politics. While Piñones is most popular for food, it is a neighborhood that gathers the...

Podcast: Islands of America

April 25, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, Anna Marlis Burgard takes us on a tour of some of the strange, incredible, and wondrous islands she’s encountered in America. 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....

The 19th-Century Woman's Secret Guide to Birth...

April 22, 2022

In 1878, Sarah Chase was on the lecture circuit. A graduate of a homeopathic college and a single mother, Chase made her living in Manhattan giving talks at community spaces around the city and, afterwards, selling what contemporary police reports and newspapers called “vile articles,” including sponges, syringes, and instructions for how to, in the parlance of the era, “bring down the menses,” in other words, induce an abortion. Examples of the kind of ad hoc birth control devices...

The Rocky Road to Saving Hyderabad's Stunning...

April 22, 2022

On a cloudy Sunday morning in Hyderabad, a group of hikers makes their way across a sprawling university campus, first on paved roads lined with colorful bougainvillea and then through prickly shrubs. Their destination: pathar dil, or heart of stone, a natural formation of four boulders that stands as tall as a two-story building. Upon reaching it, the hikers rush to take pictures and try to squeeze through the gaps in the boulders, “slicing through the heart,” one of...

Bridgestone Arena Smilodon Bones in Nashville, Tennessee

April 22, 2022

During the construction of the First American National Bank building in downtown Nashville in 1971, a small cave containing a collection of bones was unearthed. These included the remains of a Woodland Period human burial, rodents, deer, amphibians, horses, and the partial skeleton of the sabertoothed “tiger,” from the genus Smilodon. Radiocarbon dating of this specimen places it at the end of the Pleistocene, 9410+/-155 B.P. and 10,035+/-650 B.P. This would make it one of the most recent occurrences of...

Graves of David and Mabel Todd in...

April 22, 2022

In Wildwood Cemetery, a pair of graves mark the final resting places of Mabel and David Todd. David Peck Todd was an astronomy instructor and observatory director at Amherst College in Massachusetts in the late 1800s. He focused much of his work on solar phenomena, especially solar eclipses. He and his wife, Mabel Loomis Todd, made several trips around the world to observe eclipses, often spending years planning out trips and raising money for them. Unfortunately, every one of David’s...

Jovanča Micić Monument in Jagodina, Serbia

April 22, 2022

Many of you have heard about Phileas Fogg and his adventures in Jules Verne’s 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days. A similar play was written in 1910 by Serbian playwright Branislav Nušić, called Пут око света (Travel Around the World). In the play, the main character Jovanča Micić goes around the globe from his hometown of Jagodina in central Serbia. In 2019, the citizens of Jagodina made a monument to their famous neighbor and world traveler. The monument was made...

The Triumphant Story of Britain's Desi Pubs

April 21, 2022

Despite being a long walk from a high street in outer West London, The Scotsman is very busy for a drab Monday lunchtime. Before I open the door, I hear loud voices and music, at odds with its austere-looking Edwardian exterior. I pause, wondering what welcome I, a brown drinker, will receive in a locals’ pub unfamiliar to me. I needn’t have worried. Two old Asian boozers glued to their barstools nod when I approach, and the brown bartender...

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