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Nashville Tastes & Tunes

January 3, 2022

Former professional soccer player Tim Howard is a bit of a nomad. One of the most acclaimed goalkeepers in U.S. soccer history, Tim spent much of his life touring the world for tournaments and continues to travel for both work and pleasure. A proud father of two teenagers, Jacob and Alivia, Tim has worked hard to instill a sense of independence and adventure in his kids. They too are passionate about exploring new places, meeting new people, and discovering...

Podcast: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

January 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 a national park in southwest Uganda that is home to nearly half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. They and the local community rely on each other to survive. Learn how to help the Bwindi Mountain Gorillas. The sound of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and the mountain gorillas was recorded by Nick Penny. Our podcast...

Pricing Your Rooms in 2022 – Getting...

January 3, 2022

Cast your minds back to midnight on new years eve. You probably weren’t thinking about your room pricing. But if you had been, would you have felt confident about how demand will play out this year? How much would you bet on being right? If you are in charge of setting prices for a hotel, The post Pricing Your Rooms in 2022 – Getting The Best Results in Times of Uncertainty appeared first on Revfine.com.

The Volunteers Protecting Britain's Medieval Churches

January 3, 2022

Down a dead-end lane on a salt marsh, encircled by a forest of gnarled petrified oaks—a sight so strange that it inspired the Martian landing scene in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds—sits the only remains of an abandoned English village: the 13th-century church of Saint Mary’s. Christine McDonald and her friends were so intrigued by the ruins when they stumbled upon it as teenagers in Essex in the 1970s that they decided to make the church their...

House of Romeo in Verona, Italy

December 31, 2021

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous tragedies in literary history and is set in the city of Verona, Italy. While the story is just a play written by William Shakespeare, the tourism it generates for the Italian city is very real. One of the most visited landmarks in Verona is Juliet’s Balcony, located inside what is called the “House of Juliet,” but is actually just the former residence of a local noble family. Similarly, visitors can...

Garbh Allt Falls Bridge in Ballater, Scotland

December 31, 2021

Deep inside Queen Elizabeth’s Balmoral Estate is a beautiful iron bridge arching over the Falls of Garbh Allt. From the rough forest road, there is an easy footpath that leads to the bridge, but there is no path on the far side. Queen Victoria loved the falls and commissioned the bridge as a way to better enjoy the site and, in many ways, appreciate the falls more fully. The bridge, formally described as a “cast-iron segmental bridge with decorative...

WNB Financial African Safari Exhibit in Winona,...

December 31, 2021

WNB Financial’s historic downtown Egyptian Revival building in Winona, Minnesota, was designed by Chicago architect George Washington Maher. The building features incredible Italian marble, Tiffany stained glass windows, and a third floor that is sure to surprise, as it’s filled with taxidermy and hunting trophies. WNB, originally named Winona Savings Bank, was established in 1874. In 1900, J.R. Watkins, founder of the health and home goods company Watkins Incorporated, took a controlling interest in the bank. After his death, E.L....

Black Canyon National Water Trail in Boulder...

December 31, 2021

Hoover Dam has tight security, especially in this post-9/11 era. There are strict limits on where the public is allowed in the vicinity of the dam. In particular, views of the dam from downstream are not available to the public, with one exception: an authorized float trip that puts into Lake Mohave, which is backed up by Davis Dam downstream, just below Hoover Dam. This launch point is reached on a road that otherwise is closed to the public....

Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Cookbook Stories of 2021

December 30, 2021

Beyond recipes, cookbooks contain the stories of their creators. Between the pinches of salt and handfuls of sugar, a great-grandmother’s cookies or a 19th-century church group’s cake often reveals something far more precious than a mere dessert. Here at Gastro Obscura, we live for these stories that hide among ingredients and instructions. Perhaps no place embodies this better than Morris Press, the United States’ largest community cookbook publisher. This year, we visited Morris and combed through their treasure trove...

Wheatland Ferry in Salem, Oregon

December 30, 2021

The Willamette River, the historical heart of western Oregon, flows north through its eponymous valley to join the Columbia at Portland. It has long been both a north-south highway and a barrier to east-west travel. To this day, the Wheatland Ferry provides the only crossing of the Willamette (wil-LAM-et) between Salem and Oregon State Route 219 outside Newberg, a distance of roughly 25 river miles. This ferry was started by Daniel Matheny in the 1850s and has been in...

Onhoüa Chetek8e in Québec, Québec

December 30, 2021

Onhoüa Chetek8e means “From Yesterday To Today,” and it is the result of a man’s strive to share knowledge about the Huron-Wendat Nation. The main structures of the village are a longhouse, a shaman’s hut, and a tepee. Between these larger structures are also a sweat lodge, a smoke room, a dryer, a totem pole, and a hut with some canoes. The centerpiece of the village is the longhouse, which embodies and mirrors the social structure of the Huron-Wendat...

Gömböc in Budapest, Hungary

December 30, 2021

Remember the toy Comeback Kid? Weeble? Or maybe you called it roly-poly toy? You know, that little guy who stood back up on his round bottom every time, no matter how you pushed it. That was because he had a weighted sphere (his bottom was much heavier and from a different material, therefore, he was inhomogeneous) and a very low center of mass. He actually had a stable point of equilibrium. In 1995, world-famous Russian mathematician Vladimir Igorevich Arnold...

A Year in Wacky History, from Renaissance...

December 30, 2021

For decades, the Indian city of Mumbai operated under multiple time zones. In the Middle Ages, pilgrims wore bawdy badges to ward off the plague. In ancient Georgia, spring was ushered in with whips, wine, and mud. WWII “houses of horrors” trained American spies for combat using cardboard Nazis. Here at Atlas Obscura, it’s no secret that we like to explore the unexpected side of history. So as one more year drifts into the historical record, we’re here to...

Castell de Santa Florentina in Canet de...

December 30, 2021

In 1881, the Count of Canet commissioned his nephew Lluís Domènech i Montaner, architect of Palau de la Musica Catalana and Modernist place of Sant Pau in Barcelona, to enlarge the family castle with the aim of recreating a romantic past following the 19th-century archetype of a knight’s castle. Originally, the legendary castle was built as a Visigothic fortress from the foundation of an ancient Roman domus. Tradition explains that the castle is so old, that one of its...

Podcast: Beechey Island Graves Part 2

December 30, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this second installment of a classic two-part episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we continue our adventure tied to an infamous Arctic expedition. Tune in to learn about two groups of adventurers, separated by more than 170 years, and play witness to the disasters that befell them all. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes,...

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