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The Magnificent Orchards That Protect the World's...

November 16, 2021

This article is adapted from the November 13, 2021, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. Picking fruit at the University of California, Riverside, is a singular experience. In the Citrus Variety Collection’s orchard, researchers walk among trees bearing oranges, lemons, and limes of all shapes and sizes, from spindly to oblong, bumpy to smooth, huge to tiny. There are more than 1,000 kinds of citrus, two trees of each: a Noah’s Ark of...

Natzweiler-Struthof in Natzwiller, France

November 16, 2021

Surrounded by the picturesque forests of Alsace sprawls a sinister leftover of the Nazi occupation of France, the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Prior to the arrival of Nazi occupying forces, this area was commonly used by local Alsatian people as a popular spot for picnics during summer and in winter such activities as skiing and sledging, however, the German invasion of France put an end to all that. The geology of the area had been identified as being of great strategic...

Gilnockie Tower in Canonbie, Scotland

November 16, 2021

The name Gilnockie is from the Scottish Gaelic Geal Cnocan, which means “Little White Hill.” Gilnockie Tower sits in what was once referred to as the “Debatable Lands” because it was unclear who ruled over them. The simple pele tower built from rubble stands five stories tall. Gilnockie Tower was built around 1519-20. While it currently can’t be said with absolute certainty who built the tower, tradition links this place to one of the most famous and feared Reivers of the...

Columbia Street Waterfront District Sculpture Garden in...

November 16, 2021

Once a neglected junkyard before being purchased by Ben van Meerendonk in the 1980s, this property in the Columbia Street Waterfront District of Brooklyn, New York is now an eclectic sculpture garden. The lot, which is not publicized or marked on any maps, is one of those rare oddities that one simply stumbles upon. For van Meerendonk, it is a way to make people smile and showcase his zany taste in art. Today, stone lions guard the Piet Mondrian-inspired...

Hello Peoria Building in Peoria, Illinois

November 16, 2021

This crumbling, abandoned building in Peoria, Illinois has recently been reclaimed by artists. The building is actually seven different buildings cobbled together that contain an assortment of quirky windows and doors that have inspired various forms of art. Amid the nooks and crannies are various small treasures created by local artists. Visitors can search for hand-painted wooden spools nestled in various locations. Painted sidewalk squares make the location resemble a giant board game. In the parking lot, artists have...

Everything You Thought You Knew About ‘Hobo...

November 16, 2021

Connecticut Shorty caught her first ride in the porch of a grainer—the slender, metal cutout on a grain-filled train car—traveling about 200 miles across Northern California, from Dunsmuir to Roseville. It was 1993, and Shorty, then 51, was learning how to hop freight trains from a man known as Road Hog USA. He was a hobo, part of an American tradition that emerged after the Civil War: transient laborers who rode the rails and found short-term work along the...

Macleod's Stone in Outer Hebrides, Scotland

November 16, 2021

Clach Mhic Leoid, as this standing stone is known in Gaelic, is one of many such stones in Scotland. Just in the Outer Hebrides archipelago, visitors can find what is likely the country’s tallest stone, alongside one of the most famous groups of standing stones. Macleod’s Stone is different from these, however, as it is located in plain view of some of the characteristically powder-fine sands and turquoise waters of many Hebridean beaches. The stone is closest to Traigh Iar...

Nyamunini Island in Rwanda

November 16, 2021

Known jokingly as “Napoleon’s hat” for the similarities between its shape and Bonaparte’s unique headgear, Nyamunini Island has become a destination for Rwandese and foreigners alike. Hidden near the eastern shores of Lake Kivu on Rwanda’s shared border with Congo, Nyamunini is home to thousands of fruit bats. As many as 40,000 straw-colored fruit bats of the Eidolon helvum species have their home on the island, the largest colony of this kind in Rwanda. According to a biodiversity survey...

Podcast: The Office of Collecting and Design

November 16, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we meet Jessica Oreck, a woman who has spent the last 30 years collecting odd and forgotten objects Now, they’re all beautifully curated and on display in the Office of Collecting and Design in Las Vegas, which you can follow on Instagram. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15...

How Can Hotels Benefit Most from Automation...

November 16, 2021

Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: Automation in revenue management can mean significant time-saving. Where can automation bring the most value to a hotel revenue management team and what tasks are best suited to automation? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Dr. Betsy Stringam-Bender – Professor of Hotels The post How Can Hotels Benefit Most from Automation in Revenue Management? appeared first on Revfine.com.

The Race to Preserve East Germany's Colorful...

November 15, 2021

In the 1960s, many East Germans ate their soft-boiled eggs out of colorful plastic eggcups shaped like chickens. Manufactured in Wolkenstein, a tiny town in Saxony, the popular Huhn eggcup came in cheerful shades of blue, green, yellow, red, and orange, allowing consumers to mix-and-match at breakfast according to their fancy. In all likelihood, the neighbors down the hall in the Plattenbau—a type of prefabricated apartment block still found throughout the former German Democratic Republic—were using the same eggcups,...

Turf Tutorial: Birdwatching

November 15, 2021

Most of humanity lives in urban centers. Unbelievably, over 20% of the world’s different bird species (approximately 10,500) also reside in our towns and cities. Even more fascinating–90% of all bird species found in the US have at some point wound up in a city. This means that practically anything can turn up anywhere at any time. All you need to do to start watching birds is to get on nature’s wavelength. Have an open heart and open mind...

Turf Tutorial: Stargazing

November 15, 2021

As a self-professed space cadet, I grew up dragging friends and family out at all hours of the day or night to look up at the sky. I’m not sure how or when it actually started but I’ve been looking skyward for as long as I can remember. My mom loves to remind me how we used to always look for the Moon at bedtime when I was little. As soon as I spotted it, I’d get all excited,...

Bellagio Patisserie Chocolate Fountain in Las Vegas,...

November 15, 2021

When the Bellagio’s chocolate fountain was unveiled, the casino’s president boasted that it was “nothing short of genius.” In a mesmerizing display, liquid chocolate (dark, medium, and white) drizzled down the 27-foot-tall ode to sweet treats, only to be pumped to the top and drizzle down again. It stands outside the casino’s patisserie, and the Guinness Book of World Records certified it as the world’s largest chocolate fountain. Who’s their competition? As of 2019, a chocolate fountain in a Zurich Lindt...

Tummel Bridge Hydro Power Station in Tummel...

November 15, 2021

In 1943, only one in a hundred crofts in the Scottish Highlands had access to an electricity supply. This would rapidly change in just a few decades thanks to affordable electricity produced by hydropower stations. One of Scotland‘s earliest hydropower plants was the Tummel Bridge Power Station, which was completed in 1933. The Tummel Valley collects water from 1,800 square kilometers (690 sq mi) of the Grampian Mountains, with Tummel Bridge Hydro Power Station receiving water from Dunalastair Reservoir...

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