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Guignard Brick Works in Cayce, South Carolina

February 24, 2022

By the banks of the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina, four squat brick kilns sit in a neat row on an unfenced, open lot. Wrapped in rusted metal bands, with patches of moss and wild grass emerging from their domed roofs, it’s evident their days of function are long gone—a point further underlined by the shiny new apartment complex next door. When it comes to urban development, however, these kilns have actually overpaid their dues: they’re all that...

Cemetery Island in Townville, South Carolina

February 24, 2022

The middle of the 20th century saw many federal dam projects carried out across the country. Some were designed for flood control, others for hydroelectric power, and more than a few bore unintended consequences. But only one, it would seem, turned an 18th-century hilltop plantation cemetery into its very own island. Cemetery Island, also known locally as Ghost Island, is all that remains (above water) of the Harrisburg Plantation, which was established in the late 1700s in what was...

Easey's in Collingwood, Australia

February 24, 2022

This quirky burger restaurant allows visitors to eat five stories up inside a “Hitachi,” one of the retired train cars from Melbourne’s suburban railway network. These trains are known as Hitachi trains because the electrical equipment was supplied by Commonwealth Engineering, with designs by the Hitachi company of Japan. The stainless steel Hitachi cars were the city’s first suburban trains with power-closing doors and heating. In total, 355 Hitachi train cars rolled along the Melbourne tracks between 1972 and...

Nanzoin Temple in Sasaguri, Japan

February 24, 2022

Most of the Buddha statues erected throughout Japan depict the religion’s founder sitting neatly in meditation. But one Buddhist temple complex nestled high in the lushly forested mountains east of Fukuoka City depicts the Buddha reclining on his side, moments before he enters parinirvana—the moment of death. The Nanzoin Temple Buddha stands out for another, likely more apparent reason, as well: standing 135 feet long, 36 feet tall, and weighing in at almost 300 tons, this is one of...

Podcast: Vermontasaurus

February 24, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a folk art dinosaur that was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit. 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...

What's the Hardest Wood in the World?

February 23, 2022

The thing about trees is that there are a lot of different kinds of them. A recent study found something more than 60,000 different species in the world, and this does not even include plants we think of as trees, but that are secretly something else (like all the species of palm tree, which are more closely related to grasses than oaks). My local lumberyard stocks wood from a tiny percentage of the world’s trees, but still felt overwhelming....

In Bhutan, a Rare Tiger's Mysterious Illness...

February 23, 2022

Martin Gilbert watched steep, green hillsides flash by as his plane descended in a narrow, winding valley to reach the airport for Bhutan‘s capital city, Thimphu. The route is considered one of aviation’s most dangerous approaches but Gilbert, a veterinarian who studies wild carnivore diseases for the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, is no stranger to remote locations and peril. Gilbert began planning his trip to Bhutan the minute he heard the news. One of Bhutan’s rare, high-elevation...

The World Coffee Museum in Thành phố...

February 23, 2022

Chairman Vu, Vietnam’s “Coffee King” and owner of the Trung Nguyên coffee company, opened The World Coffee Museum in 2018 with one mission: to build the coffee capital of the world. Vietnam is, after all, the world’s second-largest exporter of coffee. The result is a 100-acre property in the central highland province of Dak Lak that boasts spectacular views and a museum like no other. The building, engulfed in curved archways, is inspired by long-houses, a local architectural style...

Dhamek Stupa in Varanasi, India

February 23, 2022

Shortly after attaining enlightenment, Siddartha Gautama delivered a rousing speech on the Wheel of Law to a crowd of five, setting in motion a religious adherence that today boasts a following of 500 million. To commemorate the seminal spark of all Buddhist teaching, this 141-foot tall stupa has stood for millennia. The Dhamek Stupa was first built in 249 B.C. by Ashoka the Great (304–232 B.C.), Indian emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty, who came to rule nearly the entire...

Kleine Wache in Aachen, Germany

February 23, 2022

Located close to the highest point in the Netherlands is a tiny little house known as Kleng Wach, Kleine Wache, or the Small Watch. It has marked the border for over a century, and the stone next to it for much longer. The building was built somewhere in the 1890s on one of the main streets between Germany and the Netherlands near the town of Vaals. It was used until 1995 when the Schengen Agreement made it obsolete. Not...

Did the Dinosaurs Die on a Pleasant...

February 23, 2022

Spring was in full swing along the Tanis River that day. It curved lazily through forest and wetland on its way to the Western Interior Seaway, a shallow sea several miles away that covered much of what is now North America’s Great Plains. Winter’s chill, when temperatures dipped to just above freezing, was a distant memory, but the full heat of summer had not yet arrived. Plants were budding or starting to bloom, and turtles rested along the river...

Villaggio Minerario Asproni in Iglesias, Italy

February 23, 2022

Asproni Mine Village was a place where mine workers of Serra Moddizzis lived from the end of the 18th to the half of the 19th-century. The mine was founded by Giorgio Asproni (1841-1936), and was a fully operational village, with all the services of a small town. The town included an elementary school for miners’ children, a post office, church, grocery store, a little hospital, and more. Asproni and his family lived here despite the relatively short distance from...

Huly Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland

February 23, 2022

Not far from Edinburgh’s airport is this prehistoric site, which includes the remains of a cairn, along with standing stones. They have been dated to around the 25th century B.C., the United Kingdom’s transition from the Iron to the Bronze Age. This makes the Huly Hill roughly contemporary with Stonehenge, but more recent than other sites, such as Skara Brae on Scotland’s Orkney Islands. Animal bones have been excavated from inside the cairn, although evidence of human burials has...

Podcast: Lake Karachay

February 23, 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 Karachay in Ozersk, Russia, the site of a former secret Soviet Union nuclear facility that’s inspired art despite the little that’s publicly known of the site. 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...

The Italian Town Where You Can Eat...

February 22, 2022

Every morning by 3 a.m., at his shop in the northern city of Ferrara, Italian baker Sergio Perdonati recreates a Renaissance bread. Using a 90-year-old starter (which his father managed to save after the bakery was bombed during World War II), he rolls two lengths of dough, one beneath the palm of each hand, until they begin to curl. He then presses the two pieces together at the middle to form an “X” and pops it on a tray...

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