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'Cromatico' in Tallinn, Estonia

October 22, 2021

“Cromatico” is a visualization of the chromatic (“well-tempered”) musical scale, which has dominated Western music for nearly 300 years. It consists of 12 concrete chambers, all of which together represent notes of the piano for one octave. The visual view also represents the black and white keys of a piano. Like a piano, each key on the monument, or the chamber inside the structure, has its own pitch. For each sound, the corresponding note on the ceiling of the...

Robert Penn Warren's Birthplace in Guthrie, Kentucky

October 22, 2021

Guthrie is almost a ghost town— an old opera house that acts as an event hall for rent, a few homes, and empty storefronts with train nostalgia sprinkled around is all that remains. However, one home happens to be the birthplace of Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Warren. Warren’s first published novel was about local tobacco farmers’ war against big tobacco companies. At the location are historical markers about this story on the main street near the house. All the...

Why Is Mischief Night Different From All...

October 21, 2021

In 2013, graphics editor Josh Katz created what would become that year’s most-visited New York Times story: a linguistic quiz for Americans. “I was studying statistics, and I’ve always found linguistics interesting,” he says. “So it seemed like a dataset that would be interesting to apply some statistical methods to.” That quiz, with uncanny accuracy, can guess where an American is from based on a series of dialect questions by matching answers to the results of a survey. Some...

Remembering ‘Witch Cakes,’ the Evil-Fighting Baked Goods...

October 21, 2021

Depending on whom you ask, the Salem Witch Trials were the result of fear, confusion, psychological trauma, or possibly even a hallucinogenic fungus. But as the fervor was just beginning, the village reverend blamed another culprit: cake. The origins of the tragic trials lay within Reverend Samuel Parris’s own home. In January 1692, his daughter, Betty, and his niece, Abigail Williams, claimed to be suffering from fits and feelings of being attacked by an invisible force. Thinking it the...

Sea Tunnel at St. Anthony’s Canal ...

October 21, 2021

The channel is a natural phenomenon and was named after Saint Anthony the Abbot. It is the only natural water route to Šibenik. From the sea or the opposite shore you can see two holes in the coast, which locals call “Hitler’s eyes.” These are the entry into an underground water bypass built by the Germans in the 20th century. This construction allowed military boats and torpedo boats to access or to leave the city of Šibenik by water and...

Berkeley Plantation in Charles City, Virginia

October 21, 2021

The history of the property now known as the Berkeley Plantation begins back in 1619, only 12 years after the establishment of Jamestown. A small group of European explorers would land at a tranquil spot on the banks of the James River and dubbed the land Berkeley Hundred, after a noble family from England. The men, led by Captain John Woodlief, were eager to establish the area as a new settlement. As they took to shore, Woodlief would lead...

Pirelli Building in New Haven, Connecticut

October 21, 2021

One of the most infamous remnants of New Haven‘s urban renewal period looms over an IKEA parking lot. The Pirelli Tire Building, designed by Marcel Breuer, has been a striking feature of the city’s harbor for decades. In 1966, when the Armstrong Rubber Company was looking to build a new headquarters near the intersection of Interstates 91 and 95, Mayor Richard C. Lee saw a unique opportunity. Rather than move forward with a low-rise structure, as Armstrong Rubber had planned,...

Rockland (Woodhill) Tunnel in Kennerdell, Pennsylvania

October 21, 2021

Take a detour north off I-80 in western Pennsylvania and visitors will come across the remains of the Allegheny Portage Railroad, first designed during the late 1860s. Initially, a four-mile railroad loop was created in Woodhill as part of a section of track designed to help export crude oil from the region. However, this loop proved inefficient due to its sharp turns, ice jams, and rockslides. By the 1910s, a more direct route was needed. That direct route was...

St. Ann's Shrine and Grotto in New...

October 21, 2021

The city of New Orleans offers many ways for the devoted to practice in their faith, including the opportunity to climb the steps of a unique two-story shrine in Treme. The massive gate-enclosed shrine was built over 100 years ago and, due to its magnificent stature, has been a focal point for devotion since. The shrine fits into the wider historical context of the Catholic practice of replicating shrines: this one is meant to be a replica of the grotto at...

Memorial to the Edelweiss Pirates in...

October 21, 2021

Under the Ehrenfeld railway bridge stands a plaque and memorial mural that commemorates the heroic group known as the Edelweiss Pirates. The Edelweißpiraten, as they were called in Germany, was a youth subculture group that emerged in the 1930s. The movement grew in response to Nazi totalitarianism, which included the indoctrination of children and teenagers into the Hitler Youth and the suppression of any perceived nonconformity. The social mores and behavior of the Edelweiss Pirates stood in direct contrast to the culture of the Hitler Youth,...

'Sweet Brown Snail' in Munich, Germany

October 21, 2021

Street art often has a meaning tied to its look and location, perhaps the best example of this is a gigantic sculpture of a snail, looking longingly at a Munich museum filled with cars and other vehicles. The sculpture called ‘Sweet Brown Snail’ is a 29 fold enlargement of a popular tourist trinket, now towering at four meters high. The statue was made as a collaboration between Jason Rhoades and Paul McCarthy, known for works such as Paul McCarthy’s Santa...

Čebelarski muzej Radovljica (Museum of Apiculture) in...

October 21, 2021

These panels are a unique part of Slovenian folk art. The tradition of painting the frontal panels of beehives is a unique Slovenian tradition. The Museum of Apiculture’s collection includes more than 800 examples and is the richest in Slovenia. These paintings present different motifs of everyday life, historical events, relationships, but also illustrate folk tales, proverbs, and different religious themes. The oldest panel is dated 1758, depicting the Pilgrim Mary. This tradition was most actively followed during the...

This British University Has an Archive of...

October 21, 2021

The photographs housed at the University of Sheffield’s National Fairground and Circus Archive aren’t really meant to be spooky, but there’s just something about a vintage snapshot of a vacant carnival ride or empty sideshow stage that feels like a peek onto a horror movie set. That makes sense to collections manager Arantza Barrutia. She points out that, for many, fear is integral to the experience of a fair of any sort. The draw is “the thrill experience, the...

Podcast: The Pennsylvania Firefly Festival

October 21, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we venture into the deep woods of Pennsylvania, home to the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival, and a phenomena that has drawn attention from scientists and people around the world—and was recently almost destroyed. 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...

St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church...

October 20, 2021

On August 14, 1960, former professional Ukrainian soccer player John Kobziar invited some of his neighbors to his home in Hunter, New York. The meeting that took place that evening became the first of the “Temporary Committee for the construction of the Ukrainian Catholic Chapel in the Vicinity of Hunter, NY.” Together, the group raised the funds to build what is known today as St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church. Construction began on the chapel and grazhda, or...

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