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The Wallace Collection Armory in London, England

November 12, 2021

In the heart of London there is a weapons and armor collection, the work of two eccentric Victorian aristocrats. The collection is housed inside the Herford House, a grand 18th-century townhouse. The Fourth Marquess of Hertford began the collection in the 19th century. The Marquess was an obsessive collector of Asian and European medieval weaponry. After his death in 1870, his illegitimate and equally eccentric son, Sir Richard Wallace, inherited and expanded the collection. Wallace attended auctions and made...

How Scholars Cracked a Medieval Alchemist’s Secret...

November 11, 2021

In summer 2018, Megan Piorko was deep into research for her doctoral dissertation on 16th- and 17th-century alchemist and physician Arthur Dee. On a beautiful London day, she called up a little-studied alchemical notebook from the archives of the British Library, Sloane MS 1902. Immediately, Piorko was intrigued. The notebook, to which both Dee and his famous alchemist, polymath father, John Dee, had contributed, was “odd,” she says. The fabric and leather-bound manuscript has 31 leaves of both parchment...

Thirty Nine in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

November 11, 2021

Oklahoma is home to 39 different Indigenous tribes. Some of those groups have always lived in the region, but others arrived as part of the U.S. government’s deadly displacement campaigns. The First Americans Museum of Oklahoma City honors their resilient history in its exhibitions and performances, and at its on-site restaurant. The restaurant’s name, Thirty Nine, is a direct nod to the number of Indigenous groups residing in Oklahoma. Its menu was crafted in part by Indigenous chefs Loretta...

Look What Happened When Lyon Got a...

November 11, 2021

For most of the 20th century, Lyon, France, was known as “la belle endormie,” “the beautiful, sleeping woman.” The potential was there: the city sits at the confluence of two rivers with two opposing hills, one topped with a basilica, the other home to a thriving silk-weaving industry. But Lyon’s beauty was hidden in thick layers of smog and an intricate web of ring roads and tunnels. France’s Sleeping Beauty was known for having some of the worst pollution...

Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Leeds, Alabama

November 11, 2021

In Leeds, Alabama, there is a sprawling museum dedicated to cars and motorcycles. For the people interested in automotive history, this place is a dream come true. The Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum has the largest motorcycle collection in the United States with more than 1,600 motorcycles and racing cars that date from the early 1900s to modern day. The museum began as the private collection of George W. Barber, a former racecar driver. Barber first opened a museum in...

Ambleside Roman Fort in Ambleside, England

November 11, 2021

On the northern shores of Windermere, just outside of Waterhead, the remains of what is now referred to as Ambleside Roman Fort probably date from the 1st or 2nd century. However, excavations have suggested the presence of an earlier fort with a turf wall and timber buildings, built around 90 A.D., this is just to the northeast side of the currently excavated site. The Roman ruins at Ambleside have been tentatively identified as Galava, which was mentioned in the...

Deep Rock Swimming Hole in Fairfield, Australia

November 11, 2021

On the Yarra River, Melbourne‘s iconic waterway, is a location that was frequented by the Deep Rock Swimming and Life Saving Club. First established in 1906, this site has seen many visitors searching for a break from busy city life over the years. In 1918, Alick Wickham, a Solomon Islander swimmer and diver, broke the world record for a dive of 205 feet (62.7 meters) from a tower erected on the opposite side of the cliff from the Deep...

Driving Creek Railway in Coromandel, New Zealand

November 11, 2021

This delightfully constructed forest mountain railway was originally built by Barry Brickell to collect clay and wood for his pottery art business. Track laying commenced in 1975 and it took around 32 years to complete the 1.6 miles (2.7 kilometers) line to the top scenic station, the brilliantly-titled EyeFull Tower. This is New Zealand‘s steepest and arguably most spectacular narrow-gauge railway. It has it all, from big drop viaducts to several small tunnels covered in ceramic artwork from Brickell’s...

Tomphubil Lime-Kiln in Glengoulandie, Scotland

November 11, 2021

During the 18th and 19th-century, limestone was quarried locally at Tomphubil and transported to Strathtay. There, it was rendered down to make fertilizer and mortar. Around 1865, someone decided to build a large kiln at this location instead. The kiln was constructed into the hillside. The quarried limestone was broken into small pieces then loaded into the pot of the kiln. It was then alternatively layered with wood or peat and fired. The ash and quicklime were then drawn...

Ru du Pan Perdu in Chatillon, Italy

November 11, 2021

Far in the northwest corner of Italy, in the town of Antey-Saint-André, an ancient, little-known aqueduct hugs the hillside. Dating back to the ninth century, the medieval aqueduct, known as Ru Du Pan Perdu, was originally built as an irrigation canal. The structure would collect water falling from mountainside streams and funnel it to the agricultural land below. The name Ru Du Pan Perdu literally means “channels of lost bread” and indicates that the laborers who built the aqueduct were...

Podcast: The Hot Ale Flip

November 11, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit the taverns of colonial America to take a frothy sip of the hot ale flip and learn how it helped pave the way for contemporary mixology. 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 meet...

Early On-Demand Music Streaming Required Lots of...

November 10, 2021

Loretta Shepard was still a teenager when she started using an alias and talking to strangers in the middle of the night. It was 1953 and Shepard, who called herself Joyce, worked past midnight in an undisclosed studio, operating what was, for its time, state-of-the-art technology. “We were told to give no information of ourselves, so we had to work under a different name,” recalls Shepard, who chose to go by her middle name. “I remember they were real...

The Debonair Restaurateur Who Inspired the First...

November 10, 2021

On March 29, 1924, Chin Foin, the wealthiest restaurateur in Chicago’s Chinatown, was found dying at the bottom of an elevator shaft in his own business, the Mandarin Inn. Some said it was a tragic accident, while others suspected foul play. Chin’s wife wondered if her own brother had given her husband a fatal push in a fit of jealous rage. Others suggested it was the work of one of the tongs, the local Chinese crime syndicates. Prior to...

Spindle Sears House in Centreville, Virginia

November 10, 2021

Roger Spindle was a mail supervisor with the U.S. Post Office Department during the Great Depression. Using funds from the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, Spindle and his wife Wilma purchased a 4.5-acre lot and a kit home from Sears, Roebuck & Company—the Brentwood model—for $1,244. The building materials and assembly instructions were delivered by rail to a nearby station and Mr. Spindle hired a pair of local contractors, Bernard and Wallace Cross, to assist with the construction of...

Museum of the Future in Dubai, United...

November 10, 2021

The Museum of the Future in Dubai can best be described as a torus with an elliptical void standing up. This spectacular building, situated near the financial district it is an amazing feat of architecture in a city filled with extraordinary buildings. It’s not only the shape of the building that sets it apart from others. The outer structure is covered with Arabic calligraphy, more specifically a poem by Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed describing his vision for the...

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