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Glenquicken Stone Circle in Creetown, Scotland

April 7, 2022

Also known as Billy Diamond’s Bridge Stone Circle, Glenquicken is an oval stone circle with a single central pillar standing 1.6 meters tall. The central stone is cobbled. The outer ring was originally formed from 29 stones, but today only 28 remain, with a gap to the western side indicating where the stone was removed. The circle has a 28-meter diameter, with the stones being taller on the southeastern arc. The British archaeologist Aubrey Burl has referred to Glenquicken as...

Desert Lakes of Ounianga in Chad

April 7, 2022

Eighteen lakes snake through the arid Ennedi region of Chad to form a breathtaking oasis in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Collectively they are known as the Desert Lakes of Ouianga, which make up the world’s largest permanent freshwater lake system in a desert environment. The first sketches of these lakes date back to 1913, when French colonizers launched a geographic mapping exercise of northern Chad. The exceptional flora and fauna that flourish here are rare, partly due...

Podcast: Lake Natron

April 7, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit Lake Natron in Monduli, Tanzania, which can leave welts and burns on human skin but is a bit of a paradise for another animal. 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...

The Horseman Fighting to Preserve Burkina Faso's...

April 6, 2022

When Madi Dermé touches down at Thomas Sankara International Airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, he is met by a phalanx of men on horseback with whom he rides through the city streets. Every year, the French-Burinabè equestrian artist trades the polished arenas of Europe, for the bustling streets and dusty hippodromes of his homeland—where his ancestors, who were blacksmiths and cavaliers, or traditional horsemen, rode steeds into battle and made them dance for kings. Dermé is one of the...

Millican Daltons Caves in Borrowdale, England

April 6, 2022

Millican’s cave was the home to Millican Dalton for around 50 years. He was a British self-proclaimed “Professor of Adventure.” He left his city life and decided to live in a cave and remained self-sufficient. He also offered climbing and walking adventures for visitors to the area. He was famous for his hat and raft that he used to travel to the nearest town of Keswick. A few of his famous quotes are inscribed on a stone outside his...

Gros Piton in Soufriere, Saint Lucia

April 6, 2022

Soaring 2,500 feet from the clear blue waters of the Caribbean, two towering peaks dominate the skyline. The larger of these green-laden summits is known as Gros Piton and its smaller counterpart is Petit Piton. They border Soufrière, a colorful Saint Lucia town that once served as the country’s capital. The Pitons are volcanic plugs that were created when lava cooled within a vent of the currently-dormant volcanoes. The Pitons of Saint Lucia are among the largest of the...

Raritan Water Power Canal in Raritan, New...

April 6, 2022

Before the advent of electricity, the biggest source of power was water power from rivers and streams. Almost all had gristmills located on them. However, manufacturing needed a more powerful source. In 1791, the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, created by Alexander Hamilton, looked for a place with enough power for a manufacturing hub for the nascent American nation. The society looked at this spot on the Raritan River before deciding on the Great Falls of the Paterson River....

Käthe Paulus Memorial in Berlin, Germany

April 6, 2022

When Katharina “Käthe” Paulus met the balloonist Hermann Latteman in 1889, her great love began, not only for this man, but also for airship travel, aerial acrobatics, and parachuting. This love led her to become the first woman in Germany and the third woman in the world to do a parachute jump in 1893, and ultimately to the development of the foldable parachute, which is still used today. Käthe Paulus was born on December 22, 1868. Even as a...

In 1980, an Earthquake Destroyed an Italian...

April 6, 2022

The thousand-year history of Conza della Campania, a town in the southern Apennines of Italy, was interrupted by the earthquake of November 23, 1980. A magnitude 6.9 tremblor, it killed 2,914 people, including 184 in Conza alone. If one travels to “Conza della Campania” today, they will be in a different place, a new town of modern villas, with large roundabouts and a regular plan. Many other towns were rebuilt after that disaster, right where they had once stood....

Karonga Museum in Karonga, Malawi

April 6, 2022

It’s an eight-hour drive from Malawi’s capital city Lilongwe to Karonga, a district seated on the northwest banks of Lake Malawi. Karonga encompasses a rift valley, a low-lying region where the earth’s crust pulls apart. Rifting unearths ancient sediment and rock strata, making the discovery of fossils easier, and helping to piece together Earth’s long history. In Karonga, that history includes the discovery of the geological formation known as the Dinosaur Beds, where numerous fossils dating back millions of...

Podcast: Sinchi Warmi Amazon Lodge

April 6, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we learn how a group of Indigenous women in Puerto Misahuallî, Ecuador, fought “machismo” to become entrepreneurs and build an eco-friendly getaway. 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...

'Crowning Woman' in Madison, Wisconsin

April 5, 2022

Outsider artist Sid Boyum was a fixture of the Schenk-Atwood neighborhood on the east side of Madison until his death in 1991. His painted concrete sculptures feature fantastic beasts, lanterns, human forms, and abstract shapes, often with Asian influences. In addition to sculpture, he was an industrial photographer, political cartoonist, and graphic designer. He was a close friend and collaborator with Alex Jordan Jr., founder of House on the Rock, and Tom Every AKA “Dr. Evermor,” creator of the...

Catholic Church of Agios Georgios in Ano...

April 5, 2022

Greece is one of eastern Europe’s most Orthodox Christian countries with 90 percent of the population practicing the religion. This Church overlooks a national anomaly: the most Catholic region in the heart of the Aegean Sea. Agios Georgios, also known as San Tzortzis to the locals or the Catholic Cathedral of Saint George to English speakers, in Ano Syros was first built in 1208. Since the 13th century, the church has been destroyed and rebuilt three times. Most recently,...

Varyag Memorial in Lendalfoot, Scotland

April 5, 2022

On January 27, 1904, the Russian cruiser Varyag and another boat became blockaded by a Japanese squadron of 15 vessels at the Korean port of Chemulpo. The boats were given the opportunity to surrender to the Japanese, but instead the Russian seamen decided to reject the offer and engage in an uneven battle. Both the boats suffered extensive damage, with no possibility of continuing their resistance the Russians scuttled the boats and returned to Russia on foreign vessels. The...

The Female Spies Who Helped Win World...

April 5, 2022

In Atlas Obscura’s Q&A series She Was There, we talk to female scholars who are writing long-forgotten women back into history. It was April 1943 and a man was staring at her. British secret agent Odette Sansom (codename: LISE) noticed him immediately, with his “puffy red face” and thinning black hair. The stranger followed her into Hôtel de la Poste, a stucco-and-wood lodge that was her home in the quaint French alpine town of Annecy. Inside, another agent introduced...

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