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Thor's Rock in Thurstaston, England

February 3, 2022

Hidden within the woodland of Thurstaston Common is a mysterious red sandstone landmark known as Thor’s Rock. The rock has been the subject of much mystery and fascination for many generations, reached by following winding footpaths through the gorse and birch woodland on the common. The rock is around 30 feet in height and can be accessed via a series of eroded channels and gullies. The softness of the sandstone is revealed by the numerous visitors who have carved...

R34 Memorial in East Lothian, Scotland

February 3, 2022

Scotland‘s National Museum of Flight, located in the former Royal Air Force base of East Fortune, was the departure point for the first return flight across the Atlantic. The R34 airship was the first to complete an east-west flight across this ocean, as earlier attempts (both with scales and non-stop), succeeded by flying west-east, from North America to Europe. R34 was a rigid airship, unlike the airplane flown by Alcock and Brown used for the first non-stop transatlantic flight...

How a 400-Year-Old Cheese Got Its Groove...

February 3, 2022

“We’re about to run out of cheese!” Catherine Mead exclaims with a mixture of panic and pride as she steps out of the dairy and into the cheese shop on her farm in Cornwall. “It takes us months to make each truckle of Cornish Yarg. And we’re almost out!” Ripened in a coating of hand-foraged stinging nettles, Cornish Yarg is a semi-hard cow’s milk cheese with a distinctively crumbly texture and a creamy, mushroomy taste. Inspired by a rediscovered...

The Unsolved Murder That Haunted a Beloved...

February 3, 2022

Twelve miles from the Adriatic Sea, near the town of Cesena, Italy, a mosaic horse marks an unsolved 19th-century murder. The colorful artwork, made from enameled Venetian glass pieces, stands near a narrow rural motorway that cuts through a haphazard patchwork of tilled farmland, auto wrecking yards, industrial chicken hatcheries, and centuries-old estates. The monument commemorates the assassination of Ruggero Pascoli, father of Italy’s celebrated poet, Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912). Ruggero was gunned down at the location on August 10,...

Janakpur Women's Development Center in Janakpur, Nepal

February 3, 2022

Just south of the Kuwa district of Janakpur is an unassuming compound that houses an exceptional group of women with a noteworthy goal. The Women’s Development Center is dedicated to advancing women’s empowerment through the promotion of the 2,800-year-old Mithila artistic tradition. Sometime after the 9th-century in the Videhas Kingdom of Nepal, the distinctive two-dimensional Mithila style of art began to emerge. Originally, the artwork was painted on the mud walls of homes in the Terai region—as it still...

Ureka in San Antonio de Ureca, Equatorial...

February 3, 2022

From the moment you get out of your car and see that first waterfall tumbling down the cliff until you’re swimming beneath another waterfall deep within the jungle, you know you’re somewhere special. A two-hour drive to the south of Bioko Island, Ureka is a hidden world. Seeing that first waterfall you might wonder if you should bother to go any further. You could spend the day right there, like the locals do, on the beach, barbecuing and paddling...

DuBignon Cemetery in Jekyll Island, Georgia

February 3, 2022

There are five graves in this walled cemetery: three belong to members of the DuBignon family, which ran Jekyll Island for four generations, and two honor locals who drowned on the same day in 1912. Strangely, none of these five people are actually buried in the cemetery. In 1792, wealthy French royalist Christophe Anne Poulain DuBignon escaped from his homeland during the French Revolution. He and his family sailed all the way to the Georgia coast. By 1800, DuBignon...

Podcast: Boulders Beach Penguin Sanctuary

February 3, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit Boulders Beach in Simon’s Town in South Africa, where sunbathers, tourists, and penguins share the beach—and parts of town. 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....

A New Home for Hundreds of Photographs...

February 2, 2022

Individually, the photographs Gordon Parks produced during his long and storied career are iconic: Ella Watson, Park’s own American Gothic, posed stoically in front an American flag with a broom and a mop; Muhammad Ali, up close, his head bowed in contemplation; an unnamed Black family in Shady Grove, Alabama, waiting for ice cream at the “colored” window. But taken together, says curator Melissa Barton, the impact is overwhelming. “It is so moving to be able to see all...

Sergeant Stubby Statue in Middletown, Connecticut

February 2, 2022

While training for combat deployment at Yale University in 1917, Private J. Robert Conroy discovered a stray puppy on the campus field. He named the dog Stubby (because of his short tail) and introduced him to the other men of his unit, the 102nd Infantry Yankee Division. Stubby became the mascot of the 102nd and greatly boosted their morale. He quickly took to follow the daily training routine alongside his owner, even learning to salute by raising his right...

Salt-Loving Microbes Make Vivid, Massive Abstract Art

February 2, 2022

Munich-based photographer Tom Hegen has seen some salty places. Over the past several years, he has traveled from Africa to Australia capturing the brilliant colors and unexpected patterns that result from the evaporation processes that make sea salt. For the third installation of his “Salt Series,” Hegen visited Utah’s Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere (only Iran’s Lake Urmia and Tunisia’s Chott el Djerid are larger globally). The scale was unlike anything he had...

Marquess of Londonderry Statue in Durham, England

February 2, 2022

“The horse” is a frequent meeting place for people heading to Durham Market Place. But many people, even lifelong locals, don’t know who the double-life-sized equestrian statue represents. That ends here: The chap on the horse, clad in military regalia, is Charles William Van Stewart, the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry. The Marquess was a cavalryman in both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic wars. He led a brigade of hussars (light cavalry) and served as the right-hand man...

Temple Gardens in Redcliffe, England

February 2, 2022

If one were to walk from Temple Meads Train Station to the center of Bristol, they just might pass a 12th-century church with connections to the Knights Templar. From across the road on Victoria Street, visitors will notice that the tower has a rather severe lean. The steeple was a later addition and was most likely built during the 14th-century. The original structure was meant to be a round church built by the Knights Templar, this was to provide...

Esie Figurines in Esie, Nigeria

February 2, 2022

Esie is a small town in Nigeria’s Kwara state that lies in the south-central part of the country. It is most famous for being home to the largest collection of stone carvings in Africa. These stone carvings were first discovered by a hunter in 1775. The true origins of the Esie figurines remain unknown, though many theories have been put forward to explain them. The figurines are made from steatite stone, also known as soapstone. When they were found, the...

Gil Hodges' Grave in Brooklyn, New York

February 2, 2022

New York has a lot of well-known cemeteries, with a surfeit of burial grounds throughout Queens. Holy Cross Cemetery in central Brooklyn isn’t as famous, but it can boast of at least one celebrity burial to its name: Baseball legend Gil Hodges, who played first base for the Dodgers and later managed the New York Mets. Gil Hodges wasn’t a Brooklyn native, as he was born and raised in Indiana. He was signed to the Dodgers in 1943, but...

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