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The Güell Pavillions Dragon Gate in Barcelona,...

December 20, 2021

Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí was commissioned to remodel this summer house, gardens, and adjoining farms located on the outskirts of Barcelona that his patron, Eusebio Güell, had inherited from his father. The Catalan genius designed the gatehouse, the stables, and the brick walls in the Mudejar style, with his unmistakable seal. But the most remarkable part of this complex is the extraordinary iron gate, where a horrible dragon welcomes visitors. The dragon is actually a symbolic tribute that Güell...

The Travel-Log in Myers Flat, California

December 20, 2021

Charles Kellogg was a popular Vaudeville singer from northern California known for his impeccable imitations of bird songs sung from the throat instead of by whistling. When he would return home, he would see his beloved redwood forests under threat, and thought of a new way to spread a message of conservation. In 1917 the Pacific Lumber Company donated a fallen redwood trunk 11 feet in diameter from their lands and Kellogg cut a 22-foot section to mount onto...

Smith's Bridge in Wilmington, Delaware

December 20, 2021

The first state is home to three covered bridges, with the 154 foot long Smith’s Bridge in Wilmington being the longest. Originally built in 1839, this one-lane, Burr arch-truss bridge spans Brandywine Creek in New Castle County Delaware, just south of the Pennsylvania state line. The bridge was torched by arsonists in 1961 only five years after being restored to include the addition of piers and steel beams. The year after the fire, the bridge was reconstructed without the cover...

Remembering When Mrs. Claus Cracked the North...

December 20, 2021

This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. Clement Clarke Moore’s 1823 poem “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” redefined Christmas in America. As historian Steven Nissenbaum explains in The Battle for Christmas, Moore’s secular St. Nick weakened the holiday’s religious associations, transforming it into a familial celebration that culminated in Santa Claus’s toy deliveries on Christmas Eve. Nineteenth-century writers, journalists, and artists were quick to fill in details about...

Shipwrecks, Stolen Jewels, and Skull-Blasting Are Some...

December 20, 2021

There’s nothing like a good mystery—criminal, historical, scientific, artistic, culinary—to make for a great read. This year, Atlas Obscura investigated unsolved cases from around the world and through the centuries—from a 16th-century shipwreck off the coast of Australia that may or may not exist to a modern Midwestern ice cream flavor that just might be made with beaver secretions. A few of these unknowns may eventually become known through technological breakthroughs or newly discovered archival documents, but most are...

On the Atlas Obscura Podcast, Deserts Boom,...

December 20, 2021

On March 15, 2021, Atlas Obscura launched its first, long-awaited podcast: a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places. Now, more than 150 episodes and seven million downloads later, we’re remembering why we embarked on this project in the first place—some stories you just need to hear. It’s one thing to read about an organ created by striking stalactites in a massive cave. It’s something else entirely to listen to a composition played on it....

Sierra Buttes Lookout in Sierra City, California

December 20, 2021

The Sierra Buttes are a spectacular set of glacier-carved pinnacles that anchor the northern end of the Sierra Nevada. A Forest Service fire lookout, still in use, was built on the topmost pinnacle and is accessed by three long and exposed flights of stairs. An open-grate catwalk surrounds the lookout, with the grate on the outward side suspended over a cliff several hundred feet high, the head of a glacial cirque. The views are obviously stunning, but those with...

Podcast: Widow Jane Mine

December 20, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this installment of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we bring you a classic episode: a visit to an old cement mine in Rosendale, New York, that has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio. 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...

Mabu Mabu Big Esso in Melbourne, Australia

December 17, 2021

Though indigenous cuisine is increasingly available in Australia, venues serving dishes from the Torres Strait Islands on the mainland are still rare. The collection of nearly 300 islands above northeastern Australia have been home to Torres Strait Islanders for nearly 70,000 years, and chef Nornie Bero is taking that long history and putting it on a plate. Bero, a member of the Komet tribe of Mer Island, opened a market stall in Melbourne in 2016 serving island specialties and...

The 'Rock Food' Feast That Looks Good...

December 17, 2021

The feast looks so lifelike that more than a few gawkers over the years have tried to partake. Spread across the central table is a generous dinner for 8, complete with an immense ham made of petrified wood. In the bowl of fruit at the center sit prunes made of Apache tears, a round pebble form of obsidian, along with blueberries made from azurite. Hearty bowls of hominy consist of pearl slugs, iridescent wonders produced by mollusks in the...

From Killer Clams to Roman Emperor-Detectives, Atlas...

December 17, 2021

We love year-end lists of great reads, even if they occasionally inspire a little dread. Our tsundokus (that is, stacks of unread books) are already pretty precarious. At Atlas Obscura, we like to offer a little taste alongside our book recommendations—excerpts that both offer a great read and invite you to explore further. Here are some of our favorite book excerpts of 2021, covering everything from giant killer clams to bizarrely colorful landscapes to books bound in human skin....

Topi of Boma National Park in South...

December 17, 2021

Every fall the plains of South Sudan, normally pale yellow and brown, turn a vibrant viridescent shade. This explosion of greenery helps spur on the largest mammal migration in the world. Every October, at least a million antelope thunder across the plains towards the vast lowlands around the White Nile. An estimated 125,000 of the migration’s participants are the spectacularly weird topi. With an estimated 300,000 spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa, the topi migrating through South Sudan number a little...

White River Falls in Maupin, Oregon

December 17, 2021

The White River rises on the eastern flank of Mt. Hood and flows easterly, dropping into the canyon of the Deschutes River over an attractive set of stepped waterfalls. From 1910 through 1960, the falls were also the site of a small hydroelectric generating station. Water was diverted above the falls and run to a powerhouse near the base. The operation always had problems with siltation and was finally rendered obsolete by the completion of The Dalles Dam on...

'Tick Tock' in Kirriemuir, Scotland

December 17, 2021

Situated in the back garden of the birthplace of Sir J.M. Barrie, the celebrated author of Peter Pan and other literary works, visitors may be drawn to the sounds of an amplified ticking clock. Turning the corner, they will come face-to-face with a life-sized replica of a giant crocodile. This lumbering sculpture is the work of James Doran-Webb. Construction of this ginormous reptile consisted of a comprising a vast array of recycled pieces of driftwood. They form the shape of the...

1722 Waggonway Project in Cockenzie, Scotland

December 17, 2021

Waggonways are a peculiar type of rail transport, consisting of wooden wheeled vehicles that are pulled by horses along a rail, most commonly made of metal, but occasionally of wood as well. The predecessor of the waggonway originated in mines of mainland Europe, but the type exemplified in Cockenzie was an English innovation from the 1600s. By the next century, in 1722, the waggonway made its way north to Scotland. Coal mining in the town of Tranent was connected...

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