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Podcast: The Capital Stones

March 7, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we marvel at the gigantic pieces of the United States Capitol in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C.—waiting for anyone willing to step off the beaten path. 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...

How Can Hotels Convey Sustainability Efforts in...

March 6, 2022

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel Today’s guests are growing increasingly aware of sustainability efforts in travel. What marketing messages best convey a hotel’s sustainability efforts? (Question proposed by Alessandro Inversini) Our Marketing Expert Panel Susanne Williams – Performance and Revenue Director, Journey Hospitality Daphne Beers – The post How Can Hotels Convey Sustainability Efforts in Marketing Messages? appeared first on Revfine.com.

A Short Drive From New Orleans, Cajun...

March 4, 2022

As part of a special series for 2022, we’re doing a deep visual dive into fascinating Carnival traditions around the world. We’ve all seen the sweaty, thrilling, bedazzled New Orleans version of Mardi Gras, but there’s something else going on in Cajun country, in the small towns a few hours west of the Big Easy. There, a kaleidoscopic, bead-free inversion of the Carnival celebration takes center stage. Welcome to Cajun Mardi Gras. The old story goes that Cajuns are...

This Depression-Era ‘Magic Cake’ Has a Secret...

March 4, 2022

Sylvia Plath baked her mother’s tomato soup cake on the day she wrote “Death & Co.” in 1962. This was hardly unusual for the poet, who churned out apple pies and hot milk cakes dripping in caramel at a rate sometimes described as fanatical. Despite her critique of gender roles, Plath was an avid home baker who once wrote that she would “study The Joy Of Cooking, reading it like a rare novel.” Since her death in 1963, Plath’s...

How Félicité Niyitegeka Saved her Tutsi Neighbors...

March 4, 2022

It was the second week of April 1994, and Félicité Niyitegeka saw the specter of genocide heading in her direction. Niyitegeka served as director of the Centre Saint-Pierre, a Catholic charity center in Gisenyi, a quiet lakeside town in western Rwanda that people often visited to escape their ordinary lives. She had served her community—both Hutu and Tutsi members—for decades, giving food, clothing, and money to those in need. But as Hutu militia bands swept toward Gisenyi with plans...

Ellsworth Kelly's 'Austin' in Austin, Texas

March 4, 2022

This white stone building on the grounds of the University of Texas‘s Blanton Museum was designed by the renowned artist Ellsworth Kelly. It is the only building the artist ever designed, and it is named for the location for which he designed it: Austin. Kelly envisioned the 2,715-square-foot stone building as a place of “joy and contemplation.” The initial designs for the building were made in 1986, but after the project fell through it was shelved for more than 30...

How to Connect With Nature Like a...

March 4, 2022

When Sicelo Mbatha was just seven years old, his life changed. Born on the edge of Africa’s oldest nature reserve, now Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park in northwestern South Africa, Mbatha had developed an intense love of all living things, from a shimmering fish he’d caught but thrown back because it was too beautiful to eat, to a massive umbrella thorn acacia he called the “queen of trees.” But nature, as we know, is not always benign. To walk the roughly 10-mile...

Chaukhandi Stupa in Varanasi, India

March 4, 2022

The Chaukhandi Stupa was built in the fifth century. The structure stands atop a rectangular plinth, and is capped by an octagonal Mughal tower that was added more than a thousand years after the stupa was originally built. Like the other stupas in Sarnath, the Chaukhandi Stupa is thought to house a relic of the Buddha. Its unique octagonal tower is a later addition, commissioned in the late 16th century by Emperor Akbar in memory of his father Humayun. This...

Thaba Bosiu Cultural Village in Motloang, Lesotho

March 4, 2022

More than a museum, more than a cultural center, Thaba Bosiu would be best described as the pride of Lesotho. Featuring a full-scale recreation of a traditional village as well as a fascinating museum, this flagship tourist attraction is a must-visit on your first trip to the Mountain Kingdom. A blanket-clad guide is available on request, and their tour will change the way you view this fascinating enclave country. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau located between the Orange and...

Seattle Chinese Garden in Seattle, Washington

March 4, 2022

The Seattle Chinese Garden is a hidden gem located in South Seattle. It was built to commemorate the sister-city relationship established in 1983 between Seattle and the municipality of Chongqing in southwest-central China. This five-acre Sichuanese-style garden offers a number of unique features such as the Song Mei Pavilion, Knowing-the-Spring Courtyard, Chan Education Center, Luoyang Peony Garden, and a bamboo grove. The garden was first conceived in the late 1980s, but construction was put on hold after Chinese troops forcibly...

Huber’s in Portland, Oregon

March 4, 2022

Restaurants don’t stick around for nearly 150 years without picking up a few quirks along the way. Between flaming coffee cocktails of mysterious origins, century-old architectural features, and a truly inordinate amount of turkey options, Portland’s oldest restaurant is no exception. The establishment known today as Huber’s Cafe opened in 1879 as the Bureau Saloon. It became Huber’s by name in 1891 upon purchase by Frank Huber and relocated about 20 years later to its current home in the...

Acteal Pillar of Shame in Acteal, Mexico

March 4, 2022

The “Pillar of Shame” is a project by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt, consisting of a series of sculptures, all representing human faces and extremities contorted in states of agony and fused into 8-meter tall pillars. They’re installed in places that have borne witness to actual massacres or tragedies, and are meant to symbolize humanity’s shame at these events. So far, four have been installed: one in Rome, addressing the deadliness of global food insecurity ahead of 1996’s U.N. Food...

The Fight To Save Chile's Glorious White...

March 3, 2022

It’s nearly Christmas in the foggy Nahuelbuta Range of south-central Chile and berries the size and color of ping-pong balls are ripening in small gardens that tumble down steep forested slopes. The dwindling number of aging farmers who still cultivate these frutillas blancas have just five weeks to comb these gardens and harvest their goods. Five weeks to make a year’s worth of profit. In that brief time, these white strawberries—which turn a pale pink when ripe—will have two...

Carnival in Guinea-Bissau Represents Resistance and Possibility

March 3, 2022

As part of a special series for 2022, we’re doing a deep visual dive into fascinating Carnival traditions around the world. Guinea-Bissau is a small country on the coast of West Africa, tucked between Senegal and Guinea. Though it has fewer than two million citizens, and is among the world’s least-developed nations, it is rich in culture, language, and religion. There may be no better place to begin to understand that mix and the country’s history than at its...

Replica of the Matthew in Bristol, England

March 3, 2022

In an English harbor sits this replica of the Matthew, a ship that sailed from Ireland to Newfoundland in 1497 under Venetian explorer Giovanni Caboto, better known by the Anglicized name John Cabot. Though it is a recreation of the original, this replica is seaworthy and has shown itself to be capable of crossing the Atlantic. Christopher Columbus has reached the Bahamas in 1492, but Cabot was the first modern European explorer to reach the North American mainland. (Vikings are...

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