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Dale’s Wheels Through Time in Maggie Valley,...

January 19, 2022

With more than 350 rare and vintage motorcycles on display, this western North Carolina facility is widely believed to house the broadest collection of American motorcycles and associated memorabilia anywhere on earth. There are bikes that race, bikes that jump, those that ride walls, and those that climb mountains. And while it is technically called a “museum,” the artifacts here don’t just gather dust. As per its slogan, the “Museum That Runs,” nearly every bike on display—even those a...

Roman Columns of Brindisi in Brindisi, Italy

January 19, 2022

Near the port of Brindisi, one of the largest in Southern Italy, a set of monumental stairs climb from the waterfront to a small square with a column and the remains of another. These are the Roman Columns of Brindisi, the origins and purpose of which are still unknown. Historically, it’s believed the columns marked the end of the Via Appia, a massive Roman road that connected the capital to the port of Brindisi, or the Via Traiana, a...

Skite Sainte Foy in Saint-Julien-des-Points, France

January 19, 2022

In a renovated, 11th-century priory in rural France, Orthodox monk Frère Jean cooks delicious, seasonal dishes prepared using produce from the monastery garden. The kaleidoscopic plates are served with artistic flair: In a past life Frère Jean was a fashion photographer and journalist. Frère Jean became a monk in his 30s and was quickly appointed monastery chef. He cooked for his brothers at a monastery in Greece, before spending several years at a monastery near Jerusalem, always using locally...

Carroll Creek Covered Bridge in Frederick, Maryland

January 19, 2022

As Carroll Creek meanders along the southern side of Baker Park in Frederick, Maryland, it passes beneath several distinct bridges, including an iron and swinging bridge, but the most eye-catching one of all is Carroll Creek Covered Bridge. Like a microcosmic companion to the larger covered bridges a few miles north of downtown Frederick in Thurmont and Rocky Ridge, the Carroll Creek Covered Bridge has a similar look and feel with its red-painted exterior, but it’s much smaller in...

North Creek Mosaic Project in North Creek,...

January 19, 2022

The North Creek Mosaic Project is the largest piece of public art in North Creek. It was conceived by local artist, Kate Hartley over 12 years ago. Work went on for years and was finally completed in 2020 and consisted of well over 700 volunteers. The mosaic is comprised of four, 60 foot long by 10 foot high panels of tile and glass depicting a stylized early spring day in North Creek. The mural showcases people enjoying outdoor activities...

Queen Bertha and King Æthelberht in Kent,...

January 19, 2022

The sculptures of a mustachioed medieval warrior king and queen stand ready to knight any of the busy passersby in the city of Canterbury. Unfortunately, few stop to take in the royals. During the period of Anglo Saxon rule of England, separate kings ruled over nine different regions. The territories traded, made alliances, and (when those alliances didn’t work out) waged wars against one another. King Æthelberht ruled the kingdom of Kent from his capital in Canterbury from 589 to...

Podcast: Great Zimbabwe

January 19, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, visit the ruins of an ancient economic powerhouse’s capital city, Great Zimbabwe, and learn how a colonial empire was determined to rewrite its story. 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...

Considerations When Setting Stay Extension Pricing

January 19, 2022

Most revenue managers are well aware of the latest industry trend of monetizing the requests for early check-ins and late departures. Why is this activity now trending? Before the pandemic, generally, favorable market conditions made normalized stay extension offers operational challenges simply not worth the effort. However, owners and asset managers are now pressing the The post Considerations When Setting Stay Extension Pricing appeared first on Revfine.com.

Sea Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands

January 18, 2022

A large three-story floating Chinese pagoda is perhaps not the first thing that one expects to see when leaving Amsterdam Central Station, but despite all expectations, that is indeed a huge floating restaurant docked in the water. The aptly-named Sea Palace was built in 1984. The massive building was then considered the world’s largest Chinese restaurant, capable of seating 900 people at once. The whole project cost over 5 million gulden (about 4.3 million Euro, in 2021) and was...

The Farming Colony That Grew Under the...

January 18, 2022

Each year, both locals and tourists from around the world crowd into the farm exhibit building at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer to get a look at cabbages the size of huskies, carrots so big they seem otherworldly, and pumpkins that must be lifted by a small crane. With its fertile soil and summer days boasting close to 20 hours of sun, this region of Alaska, including Palmer’s Matanuska Valley, has garnered a reputation for producing huge, record-setting...

Egyptian Building in Chino Hills, California

January 18, 2022

A little over 30 miles away from Los Angeles in the unassuming city of Chino Hills in an average-looking shopping center lies one of the most interesting buildings you’ll ever see. The “Egyptian Building,” as the locals now call, was originally constructed to be an Egyptian restaurant called Farou Food. Work on the exterior of the building was completed in early 2020 and features highly detailed facades on all four sides of the building, including scale replicas of the...

Remembering a Little-Known Chapter in the Famed...

January 18, 2022

Excerpted and adapted with permission from Ranulph Fienne’s Shackleton: The Biography, published January 2022 by Pegasus Books. Copyright © 2022. When explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out for Antarctica on the Endurance in 1914, they had no idea their journey would become one of history’s greatest epics of survival. After sea ice trapped the ship for nearly a year, ultimately crushing it, the men camped on unstable sea ice for months. The loss of the Endurance and...

German-Italian Memorial Cemetery in Anniston, Alabama

January 18, 2022

On a little road surrounded by pine trees and quaint houses in Anniston, Alabama, you can find a number of headstones that mark the final resting places of German and Italian soldiers who were held as prisoners of war. From 1943 to 1946, German and Italian soldiers from the North African Campaign were brought to Fort McClellan as prisoners of war. More than 400,000 Axis soldiers were held as prisoners in camps throughout the United States, and some 3,000...

Chimney Rock in Chimney Rock, North Carolina

January 18, 2022

Nestled between the candidly-named North Carolina mountain towns of Bat Cave (after an enormous mountainside bat cave) and Lake Lure (famed for its freshwater fishing, aside from being the primary filming location of Dirty Dancing), Chimney Rock does its part to toe the naming convention line. For miles in every direction, the village’s namesake rock is hard to miss. The titular rock is a half-billion-year-old monolith stationed along the eastern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains. While the “chimney”...

VC Bird Monument in St John's, Antigua...

January 18, 2022

Vere Cornwall Bird, the first prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, was born in St John’s in 1910. He became prime minister in 1981 and held that position until 1994. During that time, Bird took the twin-island nation from a British colony to an independent nation. Bird is seen by many as the father of the nation, and homages to him can be found all over the island of Antigua (the international airport for example was renamed in his honor). ...

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