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Shrum Mound in Columbus, Ohio

December 7, 2021

Located right off a major road in the Columbus metropolitan area sits this 2,000-year-old conical burial mound. Constructed by people of the Adena Culture, this 20 foot high, 100-foot diameter burial mound sits between a roadway and an operating quarry lake. There are two dirt pathways up to the top of the mound: one starting at the entry gates and being a more gradual path and a second, steeper, and more direct route on the western side. The mound...

Frisco Ghost Town in Frisco, Utah

December 7, 2021

Founded in 1875 as a silver mining town, Frisco earned a reputation for being one of the wildest towns in the western frontier. The town was often labeled, “Dodge City, Tombstone, Sodom, and Gomorrah all rolled into one.” At its peak, the town had a population of roughly 6,000 people and over 23 saloons, brothels, and gambling dens. A sheriff by the name of William Pearson was eventually brought in to bring law and order to Frisco by “any...

American Society of Dowsers in Danville,...

December 7, 2021

The town of Danville, Vermont has been the home of the American Society of Dowsers headquarters since 1961. This unusual practice may be what the town of Danville is best known for. Also known as divining or water-witching, dowsing is the practice of using a forked stick, rod, pendulum, or other device to locate sources of water or minerals deep underground. The practice has been a subject of discussion and controversy for hundreds of years, if not thousands. The classic...

Podcast: Museum of Minerals and Crystals

December 7, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a small mineral museum in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, which is home to plenty of rocks—some of which may rival those in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 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...

How Can Revenue Management Ensure Collaboration Amongst...

December 7, 2021

Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: Successful Total Revenue Management strategies rely on great communication between all hotel departments. What tips can you offer to Revenue Management teams to help ensure a collaborative effort? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Patrick Wimble – Managing Director, Lightbulb Consulting Theresa The post How Can Revenue Management Ensure Collaboration Amongst Hotel Teams? appeared first on Revfine.com.

No Longer Ignored, Mumbai’s Ornate Drinking Fountains...

December 6, 2021

On a sweltering October afternoon, I found myself on the edge of Mumbai’s Shivaji Park staring at a water fountain. It looked rather ordinary to me—a stone structure that supported two basins. But as my companion, architect Rahul Chemburkar, explained to me, it was one of a handful of successfully restored colonial-era drinking fountains in the city. This remnant of Mumbai’s past had been in ruins, and was brought back to life just a few weeks earlier. Chemburkar has...

Keeping the Memory of Zora Neale Hurston...

December 6, 2021

As far as Marjorie Harrell knew, her sophomore English teacher in 1958 was just an old woman—quiet, tired, a bit sick. It was only after the teacher died a couple of years later that Harrell learned that she had been one of the most unique, critical figures in Black literature and culture during the 20th century. Harrell, a historian who grew up and still lives in Fort Pierce, Florida, a small coastal city halfway between Miami and Daytona Beach,...

St. Michael's Flags and Angel Meadow Park...

December 6, 2021

Only a stone’s throw from Manchester‘s city center, this public park was, through the 18th century, a prosperous neighborhood with contemporary Georgian houses overlooking the surrounding countryside. Towards the end of the century, in 1788, St Michael and All Angels’ church was built. Within 20 years however, the industrial revolution had entirely altered the area’s demographic and appearance. In only a few decades, the church came to be described in a local newspaper as “one of the ugliest churches...

Quinlan Castle in Birmingham, Alabama

December 6, 2021

The Quinlan Castle is a medieval-style four-story apartment building built in Birmingham, Alabama in 1927. Its name comes from from the former name of 9th Avenue South, Quinlan Avenue. The street was named after Bishop Quinlan, who bought the land where structure stands to use as the grounds of Birmingham’s first Catholic church. Quinlan Castle was designed by William Welton, who was inspired by European castles that he saw during World War I. During World War II, the building...

St. Ninian's Fife Earth Project in Lassodie,...

December 6, 2021

This corner of Fife is renowned for its long history of coal mining, with several deep-level mines peppering the area. As technology developed, the deep coal seams were extracted using open cast mining techniques, gouging huge craters out of the landscape. This mine, St. Ninians, was operating right into the 21st century and swallowed up the remains of the village of Lassodie. A young Sean Connery was said to be a regular visitor to the village after his grandparents...

Teotenango in Tenango del Valle, Mexico

December 6, 2021

Just outside of the city of Toluca can be seen the impressive ruins of Teotenango, an ancient citadel built by a little-understood civilization. It is believed by scholars that the city of Teotenango was founded in the centuries that preceded the collapse of the mighty civilization of Teotihuacan around the year 900. The true identity of the ancient peoples who constructed the city remains something of a mystery. But several compelling theories regarding the identity of the Teotenanca have been...

Brooklyn-Flatbush Border Line in Brooklyn, New York

December 6, 2021

It’s often said that if it were on its own, Brooklyn would be the fourth-largest city in the United States. But it’s actually only one borough out of the five that make up the city of New York. Before that, what we know as Brooklyn today wasn’t just one city: Many of Brooklyn’s iconic neighborhoods started off as their own villages, and the “city” of Brooklyn wouldn’t properly exist until 1834. But even then the area of Flatbush retained...

Pando, the World’s Largest Organism, Is Being...

December 6, 2021

This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. In the Wasatch Mountains of the western United States, on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for thousands of years. Found in my home state of Utah, “Pando” is a 106-acre stand of quaking aspen clones. Although it looks like a woodland of individual trees...

Podcast: The Deadliest Lake

December 6, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit Lake Nyos in Menchum, Cameroon. In 1986 an unknown natural disaster left more than 1,700 people dead in one night—and puzzled scientists. We learn how they solved the mystery. 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...

Beautiful Betsy Crash Site in Valentine Plains,...

December 6, 2021

On February 26, 1945, a B-24 Liberator bomber named the Beautiful Betsy went missing on a flight across Australia from Darwin to Brisbane. Onboard were six Americans and two British soldiers. The bomber, which had been damaged in previous combat missions, was now only used for short transportation flights and was slated to be retired once it could be replaced. The reason for the Beautiful Betsy‘s crash remains unknown, both mechanical failure and stormy weather could have been factors....

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