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The Museum Where Everything Is on Display

January 21, 2022

The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen—the most visited-museum in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam—was founded in 1849. Over the next century and a half, its collection grew to more than 151,000 works of art, including masterpieces by household names like Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh, Hieronymus Bosch, and Peter Paul Rubens, all of it valued at €8 billion (about $9 billion). But as is the case for museums around the world, Boijmans’ galleries can only accommodate a fraction of these...

The Wood Cake House in Toronto, Ontario

January 21, 2022

This home in Toronto‘s Seaton Village neighborhood is completely covered in thousands of coins, corks, glass beads, and small wooden pucks called “wood cakes.” And if that wasn’t enough, the unique decor carries over onto the homeowner’s car, which is known as the “bug mobile” and you can often find parked out front. After suffering a career-ending spinal injury in 1994, homeowner Albino Carreira was looking for something to keep him occupied while he recovered. He started small by...

Hotel Casa Grande Wall in Taxco, Mexico

January 21, 2022

Taxco de Alarcón is known as a Mexican viceregal city where most of its constructions date from the New Spain Baroque period. At that time, those who could not afford to have elaborate facades carved in quarry asked to decorate the walls with illustrations made with pebbles at the time of construction. According to the history of the Hotel Casa Grande, the property dates back to 1571. It was the site where the hero of independence, Morelos, kept a...

Hot Springs in Hot Springs, North Carolina

January 21, 2022

The only natural mineral hot springs in the state of North Carolina sits in a picturesque mountain town aptly named Hot Springs, at the juncture of the French Broad River and the Appalachian Trail, encircled by the Pisgah National Forest. Heated, carbonated waters are jetted from the ancient river (one of the oldest on earth, by some measures) into a series of neat, private mineral baths lining the river, offering unobstructed views of the waterways and the Blue Ridge...

Crab Museum in Margate, England

January 20, 2022

The Crab Museum promotes itself as “Europe’s only museum dedicated to the decapod” but is more a quirky environmental action and climate change initiative launched by a team of absurdists. While there is certainly some scientific information about crabs, there is also a lot of tongue-in-cheek nonsense about giant crabs, bearded ladies, crabs engaged in class warfare, an info panel (in the toilet) on pubic lice (commonly called “crabs”), and a “carb display,” supposedly initiated by a dyslexic curator....

Great Plains Dinosaur Museum in Malta, Montana

January 20, 2022

Though Malta, Montana, has a population of just under 2,000 people, it boasts an impressive collection of dinosaur bones. The small town is home to a remarkable museum that holds some of the best-preserved dinosaur bones and fossils in its collection. The Great Plains Dinosaur Museum takes you back millions of years to a time when these giants roamed the earth (alongside smaller creatures too, of course). You can see full skeletons still caked in mud from where they were found. Specimens...

Frank Lloyd Wright Spire in Scottsdale, Arizona

January 20, 2022

This 125-foot tower was part of a design that architect Frank Lloyd Wright proposed in 1957 as Arizona‘s new State Capitol. Called “The Oasis,” Wright’s vision included a canopy of honeycombed glass and a delicate spire atop each of the three wings. At the time, the design was rejected by Arizona for being too “modern,” and for many years it sat as one of the hundreds of Wright designs that were never implemented. But in 2004, the Promenade Scottsdale wanted...

How an Apartment Balcony Became One of...

January 20, 2022

First come the punk riffs from Maksim Cristan on his electric guitar, then the operatic vocals from his partner Daria Spada, a discordant but thrilling mix of old and new, classic and experimental. The balcony concert has begun. In the courtyard of an apartment building in the historic center of Turin, in northern Italy, an intergenerational crowd—from adolescents to pensioners—moves to the music. The atmosphere is festive and cathartic. Early in 2020 videos flew around the world of Italians...

Bare Dark Sky Observatory in Burnsville, North...

January 20, 2022

Since the advent of incandescent light, humans have been casting away darkness with reckless abandon. Global light emissions have risen at an average rate of 2.2 percent annually since 2012, such that 99 percent of today’s North American and European populations now live under light-polluted skies. In an ever-brightening world, the Bare Dark Sky Observatory stands out even more for being so superlatively stygian. This public observatory crests a 2,700-foot high peak in a particularly undeveloped stretch of the...

Ein Keshatot (Spring of the Arches) in...

January 20, 2022

During the sixth century, a small but wealthy Jewish village in Golan Heights constructed a large synagogue. The synagogue stood for three centuries before a devastating earthquake in 749 destroyed the entire village. The village and its impressive synagogue have lain in ruins ever since. That is, until 2003 when engineer Yehoshua Dray and archeologist Chaim Ben-David began a project with an ambitious goal of reconstructing the ancient synagogue at Ein Keshatot (also known as Umm el-Qanatir). Digital scans...

Podcast: Razzouk Ink

January 20, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit Razzouk Tattoo, a studio in Jerusalem has given Christian pilgrims permanent souvenirs of their travel for centuries. 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...

Will the Gates of Hell Be Closed...

January 19, 2022

It’s best to go to hell at night. Drive three and a half hours north of Turkmenistan’s eerily quiet, marble-clad capital, Ashgabat, deeper and deeper into the flat, seemingly empty desert. In the middle of nowhere, surrounded only by sand, turn onto a dirt road. Then, you’ll see it. Bright orange flames rise out of an infernal abyss, licking the night sky. The air at the pit’s edge is thick and hot, like standing too close to an erupting...

Eating the Red Soil of Rainbow Island

January 19, 2022

In December of 2017, the Iranian-American cookbook author Najmieh Batmanglij tasted سوراغ (romanized: sooragh) for the first time in Evaz, a small inland town in the south of Iran. Halimeh Jonaybi, a local woman and talented cook, made the sooragh from scratch in her backyard under the shade of an old wild palm tree. Batmanglij remembers the salty, fishy taste of the sooragh, which had been pickled and preserved in a clay jar. Sooragh is a deep crimson sauce...

Riverside Plant Hotel in Savannah, Georgia

January 19, 2022

The Riverside Station, Savannah’s first modern power plant, was built in 1912 to cater to the city’s 20th-century hunger for electricity. At the time of its completion, the plant was hailed as a modern marvel, one of the most impressive engineering undertakings in the American South that pushed Savannah into the electric age with grace and confidence. For the next 95 years, you’d be hard-pressed to find more magnificent and iconic power stations south of the Mason-Dixon Line. But...

Miniature Park Boheminium in Mariánské Lázně, Czechia

January 19, 2022

In Mariánské Lázne it is possible to see many sights from all over Czechia in less than one day. The Boheminium miniature park opened in 1999 with six replicas of famous Czech landmarks, and has continued to add new exhibits over the years. Today the park includes 75 miniatures, including spa houses, churches, castles, towers, forts, a train track, a port, and an airport—every one of them on a scale of 1:25. Located on top of a hill at...

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