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Matthew Shepard Memorial Bench in Laramie, Wyoming

March 16, 2022

Despite Matthew Shepard’s murder being one of the most impactful and memorable crimes in American history, there are no memorials marking the event besides this small plaque on a bench. The bench is outside the Arts and Sciences building on the University of Wyoming campus, where Shepard was a student. Often the bench has flowers and mementos left by people coming to pay their respects. A plaque on the bench reads: “Matthew Wayne Shepard December 1, 1976 – October...

Mini Statue of Liberty in Leicester, England

March 16, 2022

Having long been a landmark atop of the old Liberty shoe factory, on the way to Leicester City’s old Filbert Street ground, this replica of the Statue of Liberty disappeared when the building was demolished in 2003. It reappeared five years later on a large roundabout very close to its former home near the western entrance to the Swan Gyratory. The statue was inspired after a visit to New York by the directors of the Lennards Liberty shoe factory...

Wallace and Gromit Statue in Preston, England

March 16, 2022

Passersby in Preston Market are invited to sit with these two claymation legends. Sporting the iconic “techno trousers” featured in the duo’s second film, The Wrong Trousers, a bronze likeness of Wallace balances clumsily behind long-suffering Gromit who is reading a newspaper featuring references to the characters and actors of the Oscar-winning films. The paper also features local humor relating to Preston, the hometown of their creator Nick Park. Designed by Park himself in collaboration with Aardman Animation and local...

Podcast: Rhubarb Triangle

March 16, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit Yorkshire, England, where farmers take years to coax their rhubarb plants into a world-renowned delicacy, using a century-old technique. 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....

6 Groundbreaking Women You Didn’t Learn About...

March 15, 2022

It’s almost hard to imagine all the things women once weren’t allowed to do, by custom or by law: smoking in public, wearing pants, owning property. But for every forbidden act, there was one woman who stood up to be the first to do it anyway. There was the 16th-century Italian nun Plautilla Nelli, the first woman to paint a scene of the last supper; Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot’s license; and 67-year-old Emma...

Balibó Fort in Balibo, East Timor

March 15, 2022

Sitting atop a hill at a commanding height above its surrounds, facing out to the Savu Sea to the north and across the Indonesian border to the west, in years past the Balibó Fort was a vital strategic holding for Portuguese colonists. The Balibo Trust estimates the fort to be 350-370 years old, and it is believed to be the second-oldest such fort in East Timor. According to the trust’s website, the fort was built by the Portuguese, who...

What Tookoolito Taught Explorers About the Arctic

March 15, 2022

For Women’s History Month, Atlas Obscura is living on the edge with Women of Extremes, our series dedicated to those who dared to defy expectations and explore the unknown. In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to navigate the Northwest Passage. Both ships promptly disappeared and the 128 crew and their captain were never heard from again. It was a mystery that gripped the Western world and demanded an explanation. Charles Francis Hall...

Castello Pozzi in Milan, Italy

March 15, 2022

Walking on a sunny afternoon in the City Life area of Milan, you can make a slight detour on Viale Berengario to meet the famous Castello Pozzi. Walking among the buildings, you will be amazed to suddenly encounter a huge house of cards that stands triumphantly in front of the front facade of the building. The large installation is the work of Rinaldo Denti, owner of the castle, and Elio Fiorucci, the well-known stylist, and is presented as a...

Emu Dads Raise the Young—Which May Not...

March 15, 2022

Ecologist Julia Ryeland was on the hunt for emu nests. These trampled patches of vegetation, padded with grass and twigs, measure a few feet across but can still be tricky to spot. At Ryeland’s field site a few years ago, about 300 miles northwest of Sydney, Australia, the nests were camouflaged among clumps of low-growing plants. When she found one, she would gather the gorgeous, deep turquoise eggs carefully—each one weighs more than a pound—and take them to a...

Podcast: Haitian Monument

March 15, 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 Haitian Monument in Savannah, Georgia, which was built to commemorate the Haitian soldiers who came to the rescue of patriots fighting in the Revolutionary War. 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...

Returning to the Valley of the Assassins...

March 14, 2022

“The original cause of trouble” was when a nine-year-old girl received a copy of Arabian Nights. At least, that’s how Freya Stark would explain her wanderlust more than 30 years later in the preface of her 1934 travelogue, The Valley of the Assassins. Fast forward more than a century later, and another book, this time female explorer Alexandra David-Néel’s My Journey to Lhasa, inspired a different young girl’s adventures to far-flung corners of the globe. That child is now...

Old Mulgrave Castle in Whitby, England

March 14, 2022

The Old Mulgrave Castle was constructed in the 13th century as a defensive residence, replacing the earlier Foss Castle also located in Mulgrave Woods. Since then, it has been home to the de Mauley family, the Bigot family, the Radcliffe family (not that one) and Edmund Lord Sheffield, though none undertook the monumental efforts to sufficiently restore this now historic castle ruin. The castle was built piecemeal on a narrow ridge between the Sandsend and East Row Becks starting...

Earthquake House in Comrie, Scotland

March 14, 2022

The town of Comrie in Perthshire is known as the “Shaky Toun” due to its history of being a haven for earthquakes and tremors. Following the largest earthquake recorded in the region (4.8 on the Richter Scale in 1839) the Comrie Pioneers, a local postmaster and a local shoemaker respectively, created the world’s first modern seismometer in 1840. It was decided to house it in this small building in The Ross, Comrie. It became the world’s first dedicated observatory...

5 Forgotten Pies Worth Making for Pi...

March 14, 2022

This article is adapted from the March 12, 2022, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. This week, I summoned the spirit of spring by making Shaker lemon pie, one of the sunniest sweets I know. It doesn’t sound like much: a simple combination of sugar, lemons, egg, and pastry crust. But this sweet-and-sour treat is an absolute delight, and I’m bummed that more people don’t know about it. So I’ve become something of...

Yul Brynner Monument in Vladivostok, Russia

March 14, 2022

Yul Brynner is remembered in Hollywood for such iconic roles as the Siamese king in The King and I, the cold-hearted pharaoh in The Ten Commandments, and as the leader of the heroic gunslingers in The Magnificent Seven. However, the only monument dedicated to him is not in Tinseltown, save for the star on the Walk of Fame—but in his hometown of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Briner on July 11, 1920, at his four-story home...

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