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Monkeys Love Their Alcohol

April 21, 2022

In 1990, biologist Robert Dudley was enjoying a beer on a wide veranda overlooking a dense rainforest canopy. It had been a long, hot day on Barro Colorado Island, a six-square-mile landmass in the Panama Canal that’s become one of the world’s most researched rainforests thanks to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute there. Dudley was there to study insects, but that afternoon he was thinking about monkeys. As he sipped his beer and looked out at the spider monkeys...

Walthamstow Market in London, England

April 21, 2022

The distinction between the superlatives of a place being the largest or the longest may seem a bit pedantic. But in cases like that of Walthamstow Market, it is still an important one. While the largest outdoor market in Europe might be The Hague’s Haagse Mart, Walthamstow Market takes great pride in its title as possibly the longest. While often said to occupy a mile of this neighborhood’s High Street, its actual length is in fact closer to a...

Podcast: Bloody Island

April 21, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit an island between Missouri and Illinois that was a preferred meeting place for duels to the death in the early 1900s. 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...

This Challah is Key to Good Fortune...

April 20, 2022

When Rochel Schulgasser asks her neighbor Nava to bring over a house key each spring, it isn’t because Nava needs daffodils watered or a repairman let in. It’s always right after Passover, so it’s not like Nava has gone out of town and needs someone to housesit her home in Passaic, New Jersey. Instead, Schulgasser asks for her neighbor’s key so that she can bake it inside a challah bread. You know, as one does. Each year, on the...

Reversing Hall Agrarian Library in Pembroke, Maine

April 20, 2022

The Greenhorns Agrarian Library is a membership-based research library. The collection centers and archives agrarian material culture, and includes books from many disciplines. The library is housed in a historic Odd Fellows Hall constructed in 1896 once listed as critically endangered by Maine Preservation. In 2017, farm activist Severine von Tscharner Fleming purchased the building to continue her work with Greenhorns, a grassroots organization that supports young farmers. The building has been renamed Reversing Hall, in honor of the tidal...

Prince of Buda and Princess of Pest...

April 20, 2022

The Prince of Buda and Princess of Pest is a small sculpture positioned on Gellért Hill overlooking the city below. For many years, the towns of Buda, Óbuda, and Pest were separate and independent. In 1873, they were joined together and given the new name Budapest. The bronze and stone sculpture is meant to symbolize the unification of the city. The statue tells a beautiful but tragic tale of Prince Buda and Princess Pest, two lovers divided by the...

Prubechu in San Francisco, California

April 20, 2022

When Shawn Camacho and Shawn Naputi first opened Prubechu in 2014, it was the only Guamanian restaurant in San Francisco. Most of their customers had never heard of Chamorro food before. Now, the popular restaurant is a community stronghold, putting food from the Mariana Islands on the map. Before opening Prubechu, Camacho and Naputi had, for years, cooked their native cuisine for friends. Chamorro refers to an Indigenous people from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam....

The Japanese-Style House of Prospect Park South in...

April 20, 2022

At the turn of the 20th century, Brooklyn’s Prospect Park South neighborhood served as a real estate showcase for developer Dean Elvord, who wanted to create a “high class” suburban community. About 205 houses in Prospect Park South, the so-called “Garden Suburb,” were built in styles ranging from Queen Anne and Colonial Revival to Italian Villas and Spanish Mission. There is even a Swiss chalet. However, even today, the Japanese House is certainly one of the unique buildings in the...

How Indigenous-Led Conservation Brought a Caribou Herd...

April 20, 2022

Caribou, it turns out, can be fussy. “They’re picky about what they eat,” says Carmen Richter, a biologist and citizen of the Saulteau First Nations in British Columbia. “They definitely let us know what’s acceptable.” For nine years, Richter has been a part of an intensive caribou recovery effort, a collaboration spearheaded by the Saulteau and West Moberly First Nations, neighboring communities that live across a lake from one another, a few miles north of Chetwynd, British Columbia. Richter...

Pie Town in Pie Town, New Mexico

April 20, 2022

In the early 1920s, Clyde Norman started a bakery making dried-apple pies, selling to ranchers who traveled through on The Driveway, a famous cattle path that ran from Western Arizona through New Mexico to the Magdalena trail head, some 120 miles. His bakery was the only building at the time, but soon “Norman’s Place” was the site of a town, one built by homesteaders moving west for free land, and that the residents decided to name Pie Town. Just...

Liverpool Castle in Rivington, England

April 20, 2022

Lever Park lies in the Lancashire village of Rivington between the Lower Rivington Reservoir and a hill named Rivington Pike. The park was donated to the city of Bolton in 1902 by William Lever, who was also known as Lord Leverhulme and who founded the Lever Brothers company (which later became part of Unilever). The area contains a number of structures that Lord Leverhulme commissioned in the early 20th century, but the most unusual of these structures is Liverpool...

'Renée' in Leuven, Belgium

April 20, 2022

Leuven is a student city, dotted with university buildings throughout. This closeness to student life has inspired much of the art in the city, including the famous statue of Fonske, who pours knowledge or beer into his head. Not far from Fonske stands another statue of a student, this one a young woman. The statue depicts a fictional girl named Renée, who is made to represent the other side of student life. While Fonske is a silly, loud, and playful...

The Whale Monument in Tokyo, Japan

April 20, 2022

The district of Ningyōchō, a name that literally translates to “Doll Town,” is named after its past as feudal Tokyo’s center of puppetry and theater arts. Starting in the first half of the 17th century, the area attracted a number of kabuki and bunraku troupes, as well as merchants and craftsmen dealing in dolls and puppets with the said entertainers. Today, as you explore the quaint district you might come across a lifelike sculpture of a whale emerging from...

Podcast: The Louis Armstrong House Museum

April 20, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit famed jazz musician Louis Armstrong’s house in Corona, Queens, which is now a museum preserving his legacy. 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. Join us...

A Mystery Worm Is Threatening the Future...

April 19, 2022

This article was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. A dozen twists of a knife were all it took to tarnish the unblemished reputation of Washington’s oysters. It was 2017, and Teri King, an aquaculture specialist for Washington Sea Grant, a marine research institute, had been invited to shuck shellfish at a seafood event in Shelton, Washington. She was there to teach people about the local oyster industry, which...

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