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Rainbow Row in Charleston, South Carolina

October 29, 2021

Charleston is a city known for its rich history, southern cooking, and picturesque waterfront views. As such, it’s no surprise that visitors are often enchanted to find a line of beautiful pastel painted houses on the main strip downtown. They are a part of none other than the aptly named Rainbow Row. Rainbow Row’s origins stretch back to the 1920s when Susan Pringle Frost, a prominent local historic preservationist, took the buildings under her wing as they’d fallen into...

Cypress “Ghost Swamp” in New Orleans, Louisiana

October 29, 2021

A platform in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans overlooks 400 acres of a cypress tree “ghost swamp,” a once thriving natural habitat dense with protective cypress trees up until the 1960s. Today, the area is mostly open water, with only a few sparse trunks struggling up from the waterline. In a neighborhood so damaged by Hurricane Katrina, this park serves as a sobering monument to the impact of human destruction on natural habitats. It was the construction...

Amalias 42 in Athens, Greece

October 29, 2021

When German forces began withdrawing from the Balkans toward the end of World War II, the exiled leaders of the occupied countries started making plans for post-occupation governance. The status of Greece was especially complicated. On September 26, 1944, the “Caserta Agreement” was signed by the Greek government-in-exile and resistance forces, the National Republican Greek League (EDES), and National Liberation Front (NLF). This agreement stated that all Greek resistance forces would be placed under the control of the British...

Troglodyte Monastery of Saint Roman in Beaucaire,...

October 29, 2021

Carved entirely in a natural cave by hermits during the 5th-century, the cave was enlarged, fortified, and used by Benedictine monks as an abbey. The troglodyte construction is located on top of a limestone hill where a castle was built, which centuries later was demolished leaving the old monastery exposed. The chapel, rooms, cells, cisterns, abbatial thrones, were all carved out of the rocks. On the upper terrace, visitors are treated to an open-air necropolis and an awesome view...

Bubble Beach Spa in Soufriere, Dominica

October 28, 2021

Dominica is a hotbed of the weird and wonderful things that nature has to offer. One of the most striking examples is this mineral-rich sea that fizzes like a vat of champagne due to volcanic gasses bubbling up from thermal springs on the seabed. While most tourists will experience this spectacular phenomenon—not to mention the plethora of colourful coral and sea life that it nourishes—by snorkelling or diving off at Champagne Reef, locals tend to head a little further south,...

The Haunted Houses Designed to Scare Spooks

October 28, 2021

The wooden building looked like something out of a child’s drawing: a squat rectangle topped by a pitched roof, with a darkened window on either side of the central door. It stood at the edge of a forest clearing, fringed by towering hardwood trees. Herbert Brucker clutched a .45-caliber Colt automatic pistol in his hand as he entered the building one day in the fall of 1943. The tall, lean 21-year-old had two magazines—12 bullets. Behind him, just out...

Mosby's Rock in Herndon, Virginia

October 28, 2021

John S. Mosby, also known as the “Gray Ghost,” was a first-class rabble-rouser who commanded the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. His unit was a partisan ranger unit known as Mosby’s Raiders (also Mosby’s Rangers and Mosby’s Men), and they were infamous for lightning-fast raids on Union targets and their uncanny ability to elude capture as they repeatedly disrupted Union supply lines and communications. In 1863, a southern spy named Laura...

Tomb of Henry Bataille in Moux, France

October 28, 2021

On the outskirts of the town of Moux can be found a curious mausoleum outside of which stands an unnerving sculpture of a grinning cadaver in a state of advanced decomposition, which holds a human heart aloft in one of its skeletal hands. This curious and macabre tomb is the last resting place of the famous 19th and early 20th-century poet and playwright Félix-Henri “Henry” Bataille. His work often featured recurring themes such as the power of indomitable passion and...

Keith Haring Mural in Collingwood, Australia

October 28, 2021

Those who have an interest in the art world will instantly recognize this Melbourne wall mural as the work of Keith Haring. Haring was born in 1958 and was known for being one of the main figures who brought street art into the mainstream sphere. His social activism and philanthropic values made Haring an iconic character and his murals are just one legacy he left behind. This mural in Collingwood was painted in Melbourne in 1984 during a visit...

Lady Bavaria in Munich, Germany

October 28, 2021

This statue of Bavaria in Munchen is the earliest bronze statue of the modern era, commissioned by King Ludwig I in 1837 to crown the Bavarian hall of fame. It was also designed to showcase the influence and culture of the then independent kingdom. The statue took 13 years to complete, with the project outliving the architect and the reign of the king. This was due in large part to techniques not used since ancient times. The king was even...

The Macabre Art of Baking ‘People Pot...

October 28, 2021

Spectators have long had a grotesque affinity for the fictional villain, Sweeney Todd, whose victims are ingeniously baked into human meat pies and sold by his baker accomplice, Ms. Lovett. But what happens when this Victorian “penny dreadful” serial takes a contemporary turn? Two oddities-loving artists have created their own “people pot pies” using very different media. Special effects artist Ashley Newman was the first to try her hand at making gory, decidedly inedible pies. Made of perfectly skin-toned...

Union Passenger Terminal Murals in New Orleans,...

October 28, 2021

Setting off on a voyage, travelers’ minds are typically preoccupied with their immediate concerns: departure times, the relaying of luggage, and the journey ahead. But the sweeping scenes depicting New Orleans history in the local Amtrak and Greyhound station set travelers off thinking about the past. While many public historical murals are painted through rose-colored glasses, artist Conrad Albrizio chose to paint 400 years of Louisiana history using intense colors, abstract figures, and macabre moments. The four panels comprising...

Podcast: Isla de Las Muñecas

October 28, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit an island filled with hundreds of hanging and decomposing dolls—a window into the sociology of why we pursue the macabre and experiences that inspire fear. 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 some...

Café in the Crypt in London, England

October 27, 2021

The easiest way to identify St. Martin’s-in-the-Field Church is by its signature spire. But to truly experience what makes this 18th-century church special, visitors must venture down the stairs and elevator to the crypt. There, beneath the brick-vaulted ceiling and spread across the grave-lined floor, they’ll find a café. Café in the Crypt certainly wasn’t what the builders had in mind when they constructed St. Martin’s in 1726. But since most of the crypt’s bodies were removed in the...

Dracula Lives! (in Philadelphia)

October 27, 2021

A.W.S. Rosenbach was the best-known book collector and dealer of the late 19th and early 20th century, says Edward G. Pettit, the manager of public programs at the Rosenbach museum in Philadelphia. “He would pay the highest prices, and he would publicize it,” Pettit says. Rosenbach loved Sherlock Holmes and the works of Lewis Carroll—both of which are well represented in museum that was established in his will—but he probably wouldn’t have been into the pieces that are now...

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