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Gishora Drum Sanctuary in Gishora, Burundi

January 24, 2022

Nestled in the lush, verdant hillside, just over five miles from Burundi’s capital, Gitega, is the Gishora Drum Sanctuary. Burundi’s last independent ruler, King Mwami Mwezi IV Gisabo Bikata-Bijoga, founded the sanctuary in celebration of a victory over the rebellious chief Ntibirangwa in the second half of the 19th century. Since its founding, the Gishora Drum Sanctuary has been a place to practice and teach specific ritual drumming techniques. Drumming in Burundi is an ancient practice that mixes combat-style...

Wood and Swink General Store and Post...

January 24, 2022

Visitors to this 1882 general store-cum-post office might wonder if they’ve arrived at a tourist attraction—or some fantasy of Old Florida as it looked when writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived less than 10 miles from this sleepy, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it town off US-441. Boxes of vintage detergent and canned goods from the 1940s line shelves in an interior virtually unchanged from 1933, when Frederick W. Wood and Paul C. Swink bought the place. Swink sold his shares in the store less...

Barshaw Park in Paisly, Scotland

January 24, 2022

As Glasgow developed and standards of living slowly increased, the Paisley Burgh Council went searching for the site of a new park for public recreation. In 1911, the Arthur family came calling and sold the council 55 acres of land on their Barshaw estate. The Arthur family was well-known and owned several successful Glasgow firms. The park was developed before it officially opened on June 15, 1912. The park stands out from others in Glasgow due to the sense...

Melanin Cafe in Opelika, Alabama

January 24, 2022

When Catrice Hixon worked as a barista in college, she would create off-menu beverages for customers, playing around with the different syrups, beans, and milks to create the perfect cup. She knew, even then, that she would open up her own coffee shop one day. Melanin Cafe is a Black-owned coffee shop in Opelika, Alabama, that celebrates coffee, culture, and Blackness. The café features local Opelika history on its menu, and the drinks are named after important African-American leaders,...

Maryland Watermen's Monument in Grasonville, Maryland

January 24, 2022

Dedicated in 2o03 to those who died while working in Maryland’s seafood industry. Shortly after the Civil War the seafood industry in the Chesapeake Bay boomed and by the turn of the 20th century, nearly a quarter of all boats registered in the United States were harvesting seafood on the Chesapeake. These boats harvested fish, crabs, oysters, and clams. But by the 21st century, climate change, pollution, and overfishing had decimated the industry. Commercial fishing is one of the most...

Back Lot in West Hollywood, California

January 24, 2022

The production studios at 1041 North Formosa Avenue in West Hollywood have a long and glamorous history. In the early 1920s, silent-film stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford bought the complex for their newly established production company, Pickford-Fairbanks Studios. Five years later, the company got a rebrand and became United Artists. In the decades since, the studios, now collectively called The Lot, have hosted everyone from Frank Sinatra to Adam Sandler to Oprah. One of The Lot’s garages, located on...

The City of Live Mermaids – Only...

January 24, 2022

The good news is that mermaids are real. They’re on the Florida state payroll as such, but to them, it doesn’t feel like work at all. The bad news is they don’t travel. They perform in one place only, a venue of unthinkable circumstance whose singularity cannot be understated. “No one could ever duplicate what we have here,” says John Athanason, gazing from a submerged 400-seat theater into one of the deepest freshwater springs on earth. Weeki Wachee Springs...

Podcast: Chopin's Heart

January 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 the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, Poland, the final resting place of famed composer Frédéric Chopin’s heart—smuggled there by Chopin’s sister after his death. 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...

Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery in Lititz, Pennsylvania

January 21, 2022

At the Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery, bread is historic, salted, and loopy. The establishment is the first commercial pretzel bakery in the United States. And it just so happens that the Sturgis family is the oldest pretzel baking family in the country, as well. In 1861, German immigrant Julius Sturgis was a spry 26 when he purchased a stone house at 219 E. Main Street in the little town of Lititz. The building, which dates to 1784, soon became...

How a Big Mac Became a 'Historical...

January 21, 2022

In 2012, when moving out of his house, Hjörtur Smárason found in his garage a pair of old, mice-chewed roller blades, tools, boxes, and an untouched bag of food from McDonald’s, still in its paper bag. It had been sitting there for three years after Smárason purchased one last McDonald’s meal, a Big Mac and fries, on the day before the three outlets of the fast food chain in Iceland closed their doors in 2009. Surprisingly to him, the...

Inside the Decades-Long Effort to Build a...

January 21, 2022

After more than 25 years, Helen’s Bar-B-Q has a reputation that extends far beyond Brownsville, Tennessee. Six days a week, Helen Turner rises in the morning dark to tend the oak and hickory logs, which take hours to burn down to embers. Sometimes her husband, who is now retired, lends a hand, but for the most part, she is accustomed to manning the pit alone. By the time customers roll in, the hog skin has acquired a formidably blackened...

Stobs Camp in Hawick, Scotland

January 21, 2022

Due to its extraordinary level of preservation, Stobs Camp is an internationally important First World War site. This rather bleak and exposed Scottish hillside was chosen for its remote location. For many years, it was shrouded in secrecy. The military training camp at Stobs was established in 1902 and became important at the outbreak of WWI. After hosting a series of Officers’ Training Corps, it became an internment camp for various “aliens” and then a prisoner of war camp. The detainees were mostly...

Shrine of the Stations of the Cross...

January 21, 2022

A deep history of Hispanic heritage runs throughout the San Luis Valley in Colorado, and this is perhaps most evident at the Shrine of the Stations of the Cross in San Luis. Constructed in the 1980s and dedicated in 1990, the Spanish-Moorish style adobe church was created by parishioners of the Sangre de Cristo Parish in San Luis, Colorado, crafted as an act of love and good faith. The shrine also resides atop a mesa and was designed as a place where...

Stadsbank van Lening (City Bank of Lending)...

January 21, 2022

Banks and pawnshops have been a staple of society for centuries. Nowhere is this more clear than at the city bank in the center of Amsterdam, where an office has been in continuous use since 1614. While the inside is modern, the outside remains true to 17th-century architecture, especially when looking at the text above the door. The text translates to: “Have you not money, nor goods, pass this door by. Have you the latter, and miss you the...

Musée d'Art et d'Industrie Paul Charnoz in...

January 21, 2022

In 1993, a pair of houses next to a former tile factory were converted into a museum celebrating the long tradition of tile-making in Paray-le-Monial. Among the exhibits at the Musée d’Art et d’Industrie Paul Charnoz (Museum of Art and Industry Paul Charnoz) are two great masterpieces, monumental frescoes made for the world fairs in Paris of 1889 and 1900, each awarded with the first prize. Paul Charnoz was born in 1845 in the city of Metz. He learned about ceramics...

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