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Harriet E. Wilson Memorial in Milford, New...

February 28, 2022

In Milford, New Hampshire’s Bicentennial Park, a statue celebrates Harriet E. Wilson, the first Black American woman to publish a novel in the United States. In 1859, Wilson published Our Nig; or Sketches From the Life of A Free Black. The novel, which is a semi-autobiographical work, conveys the hardship and abuse Wilson endured in her life as a Black woman in 19th-century New England. After being abandoned by her parents, Wilson was forced to support herself from a young age,...

Lion's Head in Baguio, Philippines

February 28, 2022

Kennon Road serves as an important artery to Baguio City, sometimes called the summer capital of the Philippines with an elevation of 1,500 meters (4,921 feet). This mountainous region is punctuated by large boulders and when the road was first built, passersby observed a particular limestone that resembled the shape of a lion’s head. In the late 1960s, a local club decided to make that resemblance more literal. Members of the Lions Club of Baguio wanted the rock to...

Heaviest Corner on Earth in Birmingham, Alabama

February 28, 2022

The Heaviest Corner on Earth is located at the heart of downtown Birmingham, where 1st Avenue North intersects 20th Street North. It is surrounded by a number of imposing buildings. Whether this corner actually weighs more than any other is hard to verify (maybe impossible), but there’s an interesting history as to how the intersection came by its nickname. In 1911, Jemison Magazine published an article entitled “Birmingham to Have the Heaviest Corner in the South,” based on the...

Could 'Monsters' Exist in the Modern World?

February 28, 2022

According to Indonesian folklore, deep in the Sumatra highlands, among the monster flowers and sun bears, a 4-foot-tall primate known as the orang pendek, “tiny man,” walks on two legs. And beneath the calm waters of an almost circular lake, Congolese legend says an enormous, 50-foot crocodile, known as mahamba, devours entire canoes—passengers and all. Scientists have found no proof that these creatures or other storied cryptids like them exist, but cryptozoologist Richard Freeman believes these mysterious animals are...

Ancient Egypt Museum of Shibuya in Tokyo,...

February 28, 2022

You’d be forgiven for not noticing the Ancient Egypt Museum of Tokyo, which is located on the eighth floor of a building located on a busy Shibuya intersection. Many of the salarymen, shoppers, and tourists walking by don’t realize they are walking right under the mummified remains of some of Ancient Egypt’s own, right in downtown Tokyo. The Ancient Egypt Museum of Tokyo boasts over a thousand artifacts. While the tickets are a tad pricey by Japanese standards, and...

The Tyranny of Europe's Noble Grapes

February 28, 2022

This article is adapted from the February 26, 2022, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. Last summer, I went to an upscale wine bar in the East Village, Manhattan. The waiter informed me that the menu’s theme that week was “unusual wines.” My mind immediately went to a rare type of wine I’d become interested in. Excited, I asked if they had any made with grapes native to the Americas. The waiter gave...

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House in Washington,...

February 28, 2022

Mary Jane McLeod was born on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the first member of her family born free but her family had little means. She was the first member of her family to attend school, and against great odds, she would go on to be an educator and pioneering leader, playing a key role in the fight for racial and gender equality. Mary met her husband Albertus Bethune during one of her teaching assignments...

African Wild Dogs Survive by 'Living in...

February 28, 2022

This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. Large carnivores in Africa are important from ecological, economic, and cultural perspectives, but human activities put them at risk. Increasingly, lions, hyenas, and African wild dogs are restricted to protected areas like national parks. Within these limited areas, they must compete for the same food sources. Competition is, of course, nothing new. For several million years, African wild dogs have evolved within a...

Sant'Anastasia Basilica in Verona, Italy

February 28, 2022

Elegant, beautiful, and solemn, this Gothic basilica church is located in the oldest part of the historic center of Verona. The church is from the 13th-century and the complex was in the center of political, noble, and everyday life of Verona throughout the centuries. It still plays an important role and is surrounded by other historic hotspots. The complex and the church are very well kept. From outside, the bricks are soft colored under the sunlit of the day....

Podcast: The Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office

February 28, 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 office, established by the founder of the American Red Cross, that changed the lives of thousands of Civil War soldiers and their families. 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...

This Startup Is Transforming Used Chopsticks Into...

February 25, 2022

For more than 5,000 years, chopsticks have been the preferred dining utensil of a sizable swath of humanity. Nowadays, around a third of the global population uses chopsticks daily. This is both a fact of life and, given these implements are often single-use, a serious environmental problem. Every year, around 80 billion pairs find their way to landfills. Activists in China, by far the world’s largest producer, have documented rates of deforestation as high as 100 acres a day...

The Carnival Masks of Jacmel, Haiti, Are...

February 25, 2022

As part of a special series for 2022, we’re doing a deep visual dive into fascinating Carnival traditions around the world. Carnival in the coastal Haitian town of Jacmel is a showcase for Haiti’s artists and a trip through the looking glass for animal lovers. The town’s festivities are renowned for the papier-maché masks that don’t so much depict animals as conjure visions of them. The images are stunning: from the tart red and yellow of the jaguar to...

Sold: A $44,000 Doghouse With a Hole...

February 25, 2022

On April 23, 2019, at 9:07 PM, a meteorite struck a doghouse in rural Costa Rica. The doghouse’s resident at the time, a German shepherd named Rocky, was soundly asleep inside when the 69-pound space rock came flying through his rusty tin roof. The meteorite just barely missed the lounging Rocky, leaving a gaping seven-inch hole in its wake and destroying the doghouse’s weathered wooden floor. Professional meteorite hunters were on the scene almost immediately, having watched satellite images...

Monson Steps in St. Augustine, Florida

February 25, 2022

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested on these steps in 1964. Charged with trespassing, his “crime” was attempting to join friends for lunch. The Monson Motor Lodge & Restaurant was a “Whites only” establishment. From a jail cell, King wrote to Rabbi Israel Dresner encouraging him to speak out against local injustice. This was also the scene of an infamous hate crime, when a motel owner poured acid into a swimming pool full of anti-segregationists. Both incidents made...

Old Mosque in Chinguetti, Mauritania

February 25, 2022

Visitors to Chinguetti have the chance to see new Chinguetti, where most accommodations are located, and old Chinguetti, the semi-abandoned, half-buried city where ancient libraries can be found. There is, however, a third Chinguetti, which has almost entirely been reclaimed by the desert. A little over one mile (two kilometers) northeast of modern Chinguetti, on the way to the village of Entkemkemt, the desert track runs through a set of unimpressive sand dunes. Buried under these sand dunes are...

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