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Podcast: The Theater of Electricity

February 9, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we step inside the Theater of Electricity in Boston and learn about the World’s Largest Air-Insulated Van Der Graaf Generator. 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...

Natur-Park Südgelände in Berlin, Germany

February 9, 2022

Just south of the bustling streets of Berlin is an unusual park filled with decaying railway cars and art installations. The site originally housed the Tempelhof railway switchyard, constructed in the late 19th-century and completed in 1889. Throughout the early 20th century, the area boomed with industrial growth and the roar of steam engines. Following World War II, the railyard was gradually decommissioned and finally closed in 1952. Decades of non-use allowed nature to reclaim the site. Local citizens,...

Garron Point Headland in Mid and East...

February 9, 2022

Garron Point is just one of the many spectacular headlands along the Antrim Coast Road and the wonderful Glens of Antrim. From this location, visitors are treated to views of the Scotland Coastline such as the Mull of Kintyre and the island of Ailsa Craig, along with unprecedented views of the Antrim Coast and Glens Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Garron Point is located just north of the beautiful stone harbor village of Carnlough and is part of...

Taxi Drivers in Xalapa Are on the...

February 9, 2022

Roberto Villanueva glances in the rearview mirror of his taxi as he turns onto a side street heading toward Macuiltépetl, an ecological reserve on a mountain in the center of Xalapa. He’s been driving a cab here in the state capital of Veracruz, Mexico, for 35 years, and has most routes through the city committed to memory. “Almost muscle memory,” he says. That’s no small feat in Xalapa, a sprawling, hilly city of 750,000. Xalapa’s streets evolved centuries before...

Barju Taal in Chimadi, Nepal

February 9, 2022

A few miles west of the bustling Nepali city of Biratnagar and just north of the Indian border is this small lake system that teems with birds and wildlife. Barju Taal, sometimes called Chimdi Taal, is comprised of just over 250 acres of wetlands but hosts more than 500 bird species, and at peak festival times hosts up to 150,000 picnickers. The lake is partially handcrafted and undergoes periodic improvements to accommodate the ever-burgeoning collection of visitors. While birding...

Jorge Wilmot National Museum of Ceramics in...

February 9, 2022

The area around Guadalajara, one of Mexico‘s most populated cities, has historically been well-known for its pottery and ceramic traditions. In Tlaquepaque, formerly a town but now absorbed into the metropolis, a regional museum has been showcasing clay crafts since 1954. Tonalá, far enough from the city proper to be distinct, but still within range of its metropolitan area, is home to the National Museum of Ceramics. With two museums dedicated to the same subject within such a relatively...

Tsuribune Shrine in Kochi, Japan

February 9, 2022

Literally meaning “fishing boat shrine,” Tsuribune Shrine is a little spot located on the grounds of Kochi Hachimangu Shrine, in the city of Kochi. According to legend, a long time ago when fishing boats went out into the bay beyond the Mimase district of Kochi City, there would be huge schools of little whiting fish. One day when fishermen pulled up their nets, among the fish there was a sacred Shinto object, which was enshrined here. Since that time,...

Basotho Hat in Maseru, Lesotho

February 8, 2022

The Basotho people comprise 99 percent of Lesotho‘s population, so it seems fitting that the remote enclave country’s only official Visitor’s Center was fashioned after their traditional straw hat. The hat has a wide brim and a pointed top, a design that is said to be inspired by the shape of Mount Qiloane. A similar style of hat was worn by Basotho tribal chiefs, who performed a type of song known as mokorotlo at certain ceremonies. In the 1950s and 60s, the hats...

How to Grow Your Own Wondrous Fruits

February 8, 2022

Every time you shop for groceries, you see them: Red Delicious apples, Cavendish bananas, Crimson Seedless grapes, and so on. The monotonous array of fruit stacked onto supermarket shelves does little to represent the bountiful biodiversity of the world’s fruit. But beyond the standard produce aisle, the pineapples are pink and the bananas taste like custardy melons. Sadly, it’s not always easy to find rare fruits from far-flung corners of the globe. Chocolate pudding fruit and pink lemonade blueberries...

Why Is This Rippling Alaskan Glacier a...

February 8, 2022

There’s a restless giant on the Alaskan landscape. Just where the state’s panhandle squeezes past a corner of Canada’s Yukon, at the foot of the Saint Elias Mountains, a massive glacier sprawls across a flat plain. Alternating bands of snow and rocky debris ring its miles-long edge to create the appearance of ripples on a pond frozen in time. The Malaspina Glacier, known as Sít’ Tlein in Lingít, is the largest glacier of its kind in North America, at...

Tusher Tunnel in Moab, Utah

February 8, 2022

Tusher Tunnel is a crack that extends vertically through one of the sandstone units, the Slickrock Member of the Entrada Sandstone, that caps a ridge outside of Moab, Utah. Despite the name, it isn’t strictly a “tunnel” because it’s open at the top. Nevertheless, the crack is wider at the bottom, such that it effectively provides a tunnel through the sandstone ridge because the flared part is tall enough to stand up in. The feature formed as water coming down...

Rookhope Arch in Durham, England

February 8, 2022

The lone arch left at Rookhope is the only remaining feature of the buildings that were once Rookhope (or Lintzgarth) Smelt Mill. The smelt mill was built in 1737 by the Blackett family and became the smelt mill for all the lead mines in Rookhope Valley, replacing an older mill further up the valley at Groverake. The purpose of the mill was to smelt lead ore from the mines along the valley into bars of lead, known as “pigs.”...

Pantelegraph in Milan, Italy

February 8, 2022

Long before ASCII images or the fax machine, there was another way to send an image: the pantelegraph. Using a swinging pendulum to scan the image, the recipient would receive it via an electric current passed through a paper at each point where the “scanner” saw dark, and chemicals in that paper would dye it. This contraption was invented by Giovanni Caselli in the mid-19th century. While teaching at the University of Florence, Caselli dedicated much of his time to studying how...

Is This the End of the Cannonball...

February 8, 2022

On a May day in 2020, a nondescript sedan set out from the Red Ball Garage in Manhattan, its driver determined to take back a piece of history. Departing shortly before 6 p.m., the silver Audi S6 should have encountered rush hour—but the world had closed down due to COVID-19. The sedan hit one stoplight on East 31st Street and was through the Lincoln Tunnel into New Jersey in six minutes, the start of a daylong, cross-country odyssey. Drivers...

Corrigan Suspension Bridge in Balook, Australia

February 8, 2022

Situated in the unique rainforest in the heart of the Tarra Bulga National Park lies the Corrigan Suspension Bridge. This bridge, named after a local engineer who led the construction project, was originally constructed in 1938 in an attempt to attract visitors to the perfect vantage point high above the tree ferns. This special structure was rebuilt by the local armed forces in 1982. Visitors are rewarded with a fantastic view over the rainforest and the variety of wildlife...

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