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Whorlton Old Church in Northallerton, England

January 27, 2022

The hamlet of Whorlton is believed to have been a Saxon settlement, it appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wirueltune. The church and nearby ruined castle attest to the fact that Whorlton was once a thriving, functioning village before it was abandoned. The tower and the chancel of Whorlton’s Grade 1 listed church remain, hidden within the grove of Yew trees that surround it, tucked to the side of Castle Bank Road. Old Whorlton Church, sometimes also called the...

Wishart Arch in Dundee, Scotland

January 27, 2022

Like many cities throughout Britain and mainland Europe, Dundee was once surrounded by a defensive stone barricade. The coastal port of Dundee’s last remaining fortress lies to the east and likely survives today due to its connection to the Scottish Protestant Reformer George Wishart(1513-46). During the Plague of 1544, the controversial preacher was said to have given a sermon atop the balustrade to the infected, who were quarantined on the other side. A plaque on the wall reads: “During...

The Surprising Science of Measuring Snowfall

January 27, 2022

This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. The Blue Hill Observatory, a few miles south of Boston, recorded the deepest snow cover in its 130-year history, an incredible 46 inches, in February 2015. The same month, Bangor, Maine, tied its record for deepest snow at 53 inches. Mountainous locations will sometimes see triple-digit snow depths. Impressive numbers, for sure, but assuming you have a measuring stick long enough to reach...

Todt Hill in Staten Island, New York

January 27, 2022

At 401 feet (122 meters), Todt Hill is the highest natural point in New York City and the entire Atlantic coastal plain. This summit can be found in the middle of Staten Island, New York City’s fascinating but often-overlooked borough. Being the highest elevation on the Atlantic coastal plain from Florida to Cape Cod in Massachusetts isn’t the only remarkable thing about this area. It is also considered to be one of the most expensive neighborhoods of Staten Island to live in,...

Box Canyon Falls in Ouray, Colorado

January 27, 2022

Ouray, Colorado bills itself as the “Switzerland of America.” Several waterfalls and slot canyons surround the town, and one of them is right at the southwest edge forming the centerpiece of a city park: Box Canyon Falls (with “Canyon” often spelled “Cañon” in the Spanish fashion on park literature). A trail starts near the back of the park admission building and quickly heads out onto a steel catwalk built inside the canyon along the left (looking upstream) wall. It...

The Lantern of Guy Fawkes in...

January 27, 2022

In one of the display cabinets of Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum sits a rather unremarkable and shabby-looking iron lantern, however, this 16th-century lamp once belonged to one of the most infamous and colorful characters of British history, the conspirator and terrorist Guy Fawkes. The gunpowder plot is one of the most notorious events in English history and is commemorated every year on the night of the 5th of November, also known as Guy Fawkes Night, with fireworks (somewhat ironically)...

Medeber Market in Asmara, Eritrea

January 27, 2022

Piles of discarded metal, rubber, wood, and plastic greet workers and visitors alike to Asmara’s Medeber market. Here, scrap material is repurposed by welders and craftspeople to make new kitchen appliances, furniture, bicycles, household utensils, and more in Eritrea’s capital city. The open-air workshop was used as a caravan trade post in pre-colonial days, until Italian architect Odoardo Cavagnari redesigned the city of Asmara in the early 1900s, about three decades after Italy occupied and colonized Eritrea. From the...

Podcast: City Museum

January 27, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit the City Museum where, in 1993, Bob Cassilly began to turn an old shoe factory into a massive interactive museum that now includes a plane fuselage, caves, and a ten-story slide. 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...

Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts

January 26, 2022

As noted in the Illustrated Map of America’s Worst Utopias, the experimental society of Fruitlands was founded at Harvard, Massachusetts, in June 1843 by English Transcendentalist and reformer Charles Lane and Bronson Alcott, father of Little Women writer Louisa May Alcott. It lasted seven months. The author was 10 when her family moved from Concord to the little farmhouse to live by Bronson and Charles’s ascetic ideals. She would later give the society the name “Apple Slump” in her comic tale Transcendental...

Kaweah Post Office in Three Rivers,...

January 26, 2022

This is one of the oldest functioning post offices in the United States. It’s in the tiny town of Three Rivers, just outside the south entrance to Sequoia National Park. Built from local cedar and redwood in 1910, the building measures just 12 feet by 15 feet. It has remained in almost continuous operation since then—though as of 2010, it is no longer a full-service post office. Today the office is manned by volunteers and serves about 50 people...

The Once-Extinct Auroch May Soon Roam Europe...

January 26, 2022

When the Swedish armies descended upon Poland in 1655, they laid waste to the kingdom and pillaged whatever they could. Among the spoils stolen from the city of Jaktorów was one of King Sigismund III’s most prized possessions: an ornate drinking horn, longer than a grown man’s arm and as thick as an elephant tusk. Although the artistry was exquisite, the horn’s true value had little to do with the metal wrapped around its circumference. In life, the horn...

How to Keep Europe’s Most Magnificent ‘Praying...

January 26, 2022

Ladies and gentleman, start your vacuums. Have your paintbrushes, thick and thin, at the ready. Tools out! It’s cleaning week at Dresden’s glorious Frauenkirche, a beloved house of worship and international symbol of reconciliation and resilience. “It’s just a big praying room,” says its lead architect Thomas Gottschlich, a soft-spoken man whom calling understated is, well, an understatement. Gottschlich’s duties include overseeing the iconic church’s maintenance, including the annual January spruce-up, when every inch of the interior gets a...

The Maiden of Deception Pass in Rosario...

January 26, 2022

Placed here in 1983, the Maiden of Deception Pass has continued to both guard Sharpe Cove and educate visitors about the beautiful story of Ko-kwal-alwoot, who married the king of all sea creatures to ensure that the bay would always be teeming with life and continue to provide for the Samish people. The statue also serves to commemorate and remember the Samish people, who called Fidalgo Island, north of Deception Pass, home. Their federal recognition was lost due to...

Margherita Peak in Bundibugyo, Uganda

January 26, 2022

The Rwenzori mountain range is home to Margherita peak, which at 16,762 feet is the third-highest mountain peak in Africa, after Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya. It’s considered the more challenging of the three, however, because of the rainforest trek required to reach the top. The Rwenzori range is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its exceptional beauty and biodiversity. The name Rwenzori is said to come from the nearby Bakonzo people’s rwe nzururu, which means...

In Southern France, Unique Boats Revive a...

January 26, 2022

In a workshop hazy with sawdust, just a few steps away from the main canals of an idyllic Provençal village, Alain Pretôt crafts a small, wooden boat. It’s one of two or three he’ll make this year, in a style unique to the Sorgues River. The workshop, decorated with posters of Georges Brassnens, The Rolling Stones, and AC/DC, is narrow. There’s just enough space to circle the long table where the boat’s skeleton takes shape. This is a place...

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