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Sun Hing Restaurant in Hong Kong

December 10, 2021

Tucked away on a busy street of Kennedy Town, Sun Hing is known for serving up heaping steamer baskets of fluffy char siu bao (barbecued pork buns), curried tripe, spare ribs, and Cantonese sponge cake to night owls starting at 3:00 a.m. every day. By the time the sun rises, the place is packed with customers ranging from elderly people sipping tea to students from the nearby university and still-tipsy revelers seeking late-night bites. Opened by Chui Hoi in 1973...

Nottingham Park Tunnel in Nottingham, England

December 10, 2021

A magnificent piece of Victorian engineering can be found hidden just outside the Nottingham city center. Completed in May 1855, built originally to allow horse-drawn carriages access to the private enclosed village The Park estate. Commissioned to architects Thomas Holland to design and build. The Park Tunnel never fulfilled the expectations of being the main thoroughfare over other routes. You have to have a keen eye to locate the obscure access. Make your way up Derby Road making your...

Palermo's Unique, Centuries-Old Puppet Tradition Enters a...

December 10, 2021

Deep in the historic heart of Palermo, a dragon stirs. A drumbeat thuds through the darkened room—once part of a luxury hotel—as the creature takes flight. The dragon lurches toward our armor-clad hero, Orlando, but he is no match for a knight. Orlando’s sword slices through the beast and its body falls to the ground. Its bloodied head dangles by a string above the stage. Off to one side, 10-year-old Martina Bumbello turns the crank of the puppet theater’s...

Phillip Island Koala Conservation Reserve in Rhyll,...

December 10, 2021

The Phillip Island Koala Conservation Reserve is a peaceful sanctuary in the heart of Phillip Island, which allows visitors to come face to face with koalas in their natural habitats. This park is unique and special in that it helps koalas who have suffered at the hands of natural disasters or from the effects of human encroachment into the natural areas of Australia. It is thought that there are around 80,000 of these unique animals left in Australia and...

The Photographer Gargoyle in Palencia, Spain

December 10, 2021

The Gothic Cathedral of Saint Antolín in Palencia is sometimes known as “the unknown beauty.” It is the third-largest in Spain and also the one with the longest central nave. The cathedral’s exterior is lined with a number of striking gargoyles. Among the skeletons and mythical beasts, there is one that seems to be out of place: A curious character in a buttoned cassock juts out from one of the cornices, wearing a camera around his neck. The story...

Stained Glass Demons of Fairford in Fairford,...

December 10, 2021

The medieval church of St. Mary’s in the town of Fairford is notable for the menagerie of nightmarish demons that lurk among more conventional religious imagery in the stained glass windows. Goggle-eyed demons pout, cackle, drool, gnash their teeth, and loll their bloodthirsty tongues from fanged maws while wielding clubs and bladed weapons with menacing intent. In a number of the central window panes, red and blue-skinned apparitions are depicted gleefully swinging spiked maces or merrily poking tridents towards...

Pickering Pedestrian Bridge in Pickering, Ontario

December 10, 2021

Completed in 2018, this record-holding 250-meter (820-ft) bridge spans 14 lanes of Highway 401, six live rail tracks, and a two-lane road. It can be seen clearly from planes flying overhead and provides a vital link between the regional commuter train station (Pickering GO) on the south side to Durham region’s largest shopping mall, local college, and regional bus service on the north side. The landmark bridge has a very distinct metal exoskeleton. It’s wrapped in Kalzip, a lightweight...

In India, a Sweet Tradition Calls for...

December 9, 2021

Decked out in a black silk saree and pearly white beads, my neighbor’s daughter Medha handed out tilgul and sought blessings from the elders. “Tilgul ghya goad goad bola,” she repeated to the youngsters of the family, telling them to “take this tilgul sweet, and talk as sweetly.” This was her first Sankranti festival celebration after marriage. The white beads she wore, though, weren’t pearls. Instead, the tiny spiked spheres threaded around her neck were the same candies that...

Could an Infamous WWII Bunker Become a...

December 9, 2021

At a nighttime command conference convened on May 21, 1945, Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, commander of the 120,000-man Japanese 32nd Army in Okinawa, decided that his troops would have to evacuate their underground headquarters deep beneath historic Shuri Castle and retreat further south. The ferocious Battle of Okinawa had been raging for eight weeks, and Ushijima’s well dug-in Japanese fighters had made American forces pay dearly for every small gain thus far. But by late May, US army and...

Meet the Woman on a Quest to...

December 9, 2021

On Midsummer’s Eve, the central square in Whalton, a small village in Northern England, glows red with fire. The Baal Fire tradition—locals build a bonfire and light it up—is intended to bless the season’s crops and has continued uninterrupted for centuries. The Mari Lwyd tradition in South Wales is so old that no one knows how or when it began. In the depths of winter each year, individuals wearing sheets or sacks carry mounted, decorated horse skulls door to...

Mulkot Mirror Wall in Purano Jhangajholi, Nepal

December 9, 2021

Near the village of Mulkot Bazar, along a windy stretch of the BP Koirala Highway, a retaining wall is covered with thousands of small mirrors. The mirrors are offered up to the goddess Seti Devi Mata as prayers to avoid accidents. A nearby temple sells additional mirrors to any travelers who wish to add to the panoramic oblation. Also known as the Banepa Sindhuli Bardibas Road, this 98 mile-long highway connects the Kathmandu Valley with the Eastern Terai. Although...

'Sincretismo' in Guadalajara, Mexico

December 9, 2021

On one of the main avenues of the city of Guadalajara stands a dazzling sculpture that is immediately recognizable as the Virgin of Guadalupe. But take a closer look and you may be surprised to see a garland of human skulls and fork-tongued and razor-fanged snakes adorning this strange monument. The sculpture Sincretismo was created by the artist Ismael Vargas, who was commissioned by the city to produce a monumental piece of public art reflecting the traditions of Mexico. As...

Rickwood Caverns in Warrior, Alabama

December 9, 2021

Rickwood Caverns were discovered around the 1950s by a band of boy scouts and their leader, Eddie Rickles. Although the property itself had been known by locals as a graffiti hotspot. Rickles decided to develop the caves into a public attraction with a friend of his, Sonny Arwood. The two combined their names and dubbed the caverns “Rickwood Caverns.” The caverns opened in 1954, but the caverns were sold to the state of Alabama to become a state park. ...

Lady Well in Glasgow, Scotland

December 9, 2021

Perhaps even before Glasgow city was founded, this medieval spring has been quietly gurgling its way through history. The well is situated in an unlikely spot in Scotland‘s largest city. At the end of the appropriately named Ladywell Street, the well’s small niche is carved into the western wall of the Glasglow Necropolis and Tennent’s Brewery, home to the UK’s largest beer attraction. There used to be 16 of these watery founts across the city in 1736, but few have survived into...

Klo & So Museum of Historic Sanitary...

December 9, 2021

Everybody does it every day, and still, it is kind of a spicy topic: using the toilet. In Gmunden, Austria, Fritz Lischka decided to point out the fascinating and interesting aspects of the practice of using a toilet bowl instead. That’s why it’s now possible to find oneself surrounded by a variety of historic toilet bowls ranging from neatly painted bowls to jerrys to very sophisticated solutions like the toilet chair that blends with the personal bookshelf. Gmunden is...

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