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Stones of Frederica in Athens, Greece

October 15, 2021

In 1923, over a million Greeks living in Turkey were expelled in the Great Population Exchange. Among these were over 800 refugee families from Attaleia and Alasia who settled in the Petralona district of Athens. The area they selected was formerly the Konstanellos Quarry, and the refugees used a variety of used and discarded building materials to turn the old quarry into a makeshift settlement. Many of the refugees found work at the nearby gaslight factory and their settlement...

Flying Horse Carousel in Westerly, Rhode Island

October 15, 2021

The Flying Horse Carousel, built around 1876, should not be confused with Martha’s Vineyard’s Flying Horses Carousel. Both were manufactured by the Charles W. F. Dare Company, one of the leading amusement manufacturers at the time, and both contend to be the oldest continually operating carousel in the country. Watch Hill’s carousel was never meant to end up in the coastal village; it was part of a traveling carnival, which abandoned it in Westerly in 1897. It was powered...

Lake Agnes Teahouse in Lake Louise, Alberta

October 15, 2021

The Lake Agnes Tea House in Alberta’s Banff National Park opened to hungry and thirsty hikers in 1905. This is no simple rest stop with only Lipton on hand. Instead, expect everything from 100 Monkeys white tea to Bora Bora mango rooibos. When it’s open during the warmer months of the year, the Lake Agnes Tea House offers 100 types of tea and a full snack menu, with everything prepared on propane. Up this high in the mountains, there’s...

Backpackers Memorial in Belanglo, Australia

October 15, 2021

Between 1989 and 1992, seven backpackers left Sydney and were never heard from again. The missing—Deborah Everist and James Gibson from Frankston, Victoria; Simone Schmidl from Regensburg, Germany; Gabor Neugebauer and Anja Habschied from Karlsfeld, Germany; Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters from Haslemere, England, and Maesteg, Wales, respectfully. They were all between the ages of 19 and 22 and last seen hitchhiking south on the Hume Highway, heading towards Melbourne. On September 19, 1992, runners in Belanglo State Forest,...

'Untitled (Figure Balancing on Dog)' in Kutztown,...

October 15, 2021

Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania but grew up in nearby Kutztown, where he lived until he moved to Pittsburgh in 1976 to attend art school. In 1978, he moved to New York City, where he found success within the pop art scene, and later became an avid social activist in the midst of the AIDS crisis. In 1990, Haring tragically succumbed to complications related to the illness at the age of 31. In spite of his worldwide...

Why Were Human Sacrifices Buried Beneath Ancient...

October 15, 2021

More than 1,600 years ago, close to the southeastern coast of the Korean Peninsula, laborers were hard at work building a palace for a fledgling kingdom. They finished the foundation layer of the massive western rampart and then paused before beginning the next construction phase, a stone wall. The foundation, made from packed shells and earth, was complete from an engineering standpoint. But the ancient builders believed something more was needed to protect the structure: human sacrifices. The victims...

Norwich Castle Museum in Norwich, England

October 15, 2021

The towering castle of Norwich built on the orders of William the Conqueror is an impressive edifice to behold, however, inside its walls is an unusual museum that is also worth visiting. The earliest parts of Norwich Castle date back to the early 11th century, when the Normans demolished a number of Saxon homes that once stood on the castle grounds. The castle was completed around 1112, during the reign of King Henry I. Though it was designed to...

Glenmont in West Orange, New Jersey

October 15, 2021

Thomas Edison—the inventor who needs no introduction—moved to West Orange from Menlo Park after the death of his first wife in 1884. After marrying his second wife, Mina, in 1887, he presented her with an incredible wedding gift: Glenmont, a sprawling estate in the peaceful neighborhood of Llewellyn Park. And when it’s said that the inventor presented the home as a gift, it’s no exaggeration. Aware that there would likely be dispute and contention over his estate and inventions...

It Takes a Village to Feed Cambodia’s...

October 15, 2021

Rotanak Ros woke to feed the ghosts before dawn. By the time the sun’s first rays began creeping over the rooftops of Phnom Penh, it would be too late—the spirits cannot stand the light. During Pchum Ben, the Khmer Festival of the Ancestors each year in September and October, the gates of hell open. With no fewer than 32 realms, the Cambodian version of hell would leave even Dante’s Virgil aghast. When the spirits of the dead slip through...

For Sale: Ricky Jay's One-of-a-Kind Collection of...

October 14, 2021

Some knew Ricky Jay as a magician, a renowned sleight-of-hand artist who could manipulate cards with superhuman dexterity. Others discovered him as an actor, in films such as Magnolia or the HBO series Deadwood. What’s more, Jay somehow found time to become an accomplished author—Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, and Jay’s Journal of Anomalies—guides to the perplexing and chronicles of the world’s more bizarre entertainments. Jay was also—not finally, but in addition—an eminent collector; among the foremost collectors of...

Nancy the Elephant Tombstone Monument in Moultrie,...

October 14, 2021

A visit to the cemetery located next to the Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church in the rural town of Moultrie, Georgia, brings a large surprise. Nestled among the traditional headstones in the churchyard is the life-sized marble statue of Nancy, a baby elephant owned by William F. Duggan. William Duggan, born January 18, 1899, loved circuses and wanted to one day have his own. At the age of 12, he ran away to join the Sparks Circus, a wagon...

Ferenc Puskás Memorial in Melbourne, Australia

October 14, 2021

It may come as a surprise that central Melbourne, Australia is home to a memorial statue dedicated to the life of one of Hungary‘s greatest sports stars. But Ferenc Puskás is widely regarded as one of the best footballers of all time and this statue unveiled on February 4, 2017, pays tribute to a highly decorated career. Born in April 1927, Puskás had a quite phenomenal goalscoring record and his club career saw him break many records for his...

La Cuevona in Cuevas, Spain

October 14, 2021

Cuevas del Agua is a quiet and picturesque little village surrounded by mountains in Asturias in northern Spain. It is known for its typical horreos (Asturian granaries), which are an example of the traditional architecture of this area. To get here by car you must go on purpose, and taking local narrow roads. The surprise hits at the end of the trip, when you pass through a wide tunnel to access the village. But it is not an ordinary tunnel—when...

Mapping the Ghostly Traces of Abandoned Railroads

October 14, 2021

In the 1830s, a rail line linked Elkton, Maryland, with New Castle, Delaware, shortening the time it took to shuttle people and goods between the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay. Today you’d never know it had been there. A photograph snapped years after the line had been abandoned captures a stone culvert halfway to collapse into the creek it spanned. Another image, captured even later, shows a relict trail that looks more like a footpath than a railroad right-of-way....

The Fairview Lift Bridge in Cartwright, North...

October 14, 2021

The Fairview Lift Bridge is a railroad bridge spanning the Yellowstone River, and is the only lift bridge in North Dakota (although it does have a twin located nine miles north and crossing the Missouri River in Montana). Its complicated lifting mechanism was only used a single time, before the bridge was even technically complete. Named after the town of Fairview, Montana located five miles to the west, construction on the bridge and its twin, started in 1912 and...

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