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Merrill Fountain in Detroit, Michigan

October 12, 2021

The Merrill Fountain sits in the middle of Palmer Park in Detroit, Michigan. Built in 1901, the fountain once occupied a place of honor in front of the old Opera House. Though the Detroit Opera House is long gone, its stunning white marble fountain remains. Palmer Park is located at the corner of Merrill Plaisance Street and Second Avenue. The park is home not only to the fountain, but also to a public golf course tennis courts, a playground,...

Barbar Temple in Barbar, Bahrain

October 12, 2021

Despite the historical significance of this site, it has very few visitors, and is secured by a single guard who is very happy to tell you all he knows of the site. The Barbar Temple is actually three Dilmun temples, built on top of each other, starting in the third millennium B.C. (For context, the Egyptian Pyramids at Giza started construction in the middle of the second millennium B.C.). Temple 2 was built approximately 500 years after Temple 1,...

John Brown Monument in Akron, Ohio

October 12, 2021

As an abolitionist leader, John Brown is a complicated figure in American history. In the wake of the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, the state of Kansas became awash with pro-slavery “border ruffians” from Missouri and “Jayhawkers” from the east, with a mission to influence the state’s stance on slavery. After a rash of violence on abolitionist structures in Lawrence, Kansas, Brown led an attack on the pro-slavery instigators, attacking them with broadswords, leaving five dead. Three years later, Brown...

Jünger-Haus Wilflingen in Langenenslingen, Germany

October 12, 2021

In the sleepy village of Wilflingen, in southern Germany, stands the house of Ernst Jünger, an eccentric and controversial best-selling German novelist. A pioneer of sci-fi and magical realism, Jünger was a rebel, a philosopher, a decorated WWI veteran, an entomologist, a psychonaut, and a centenarian. After fighting in the First World War, Jünger studied biology and wrote his most famous work In Stahlgewittern (Storm of Steel), which chronicled his personal experience of the war and went on to become...

Castle Cornet in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey

October 12, 2021

This 800-year-old castle boasts incredible views of the whole east coast of Guernsey and across to the other islands of Herm, Sark, and Alderney. It is steeped in history that includes the English Civil War and the German occupation of the castle and islands during World War II. Formerly a tidal island, this plot of land was first fortified as a castle in the early 13th century. In its earliest days, the castle comprised a keep, a chapel, two courtyards,...

Clarkes Collectibles & Lunchbox Museum in Nice,...

October 12, 2021

The Lunch Box Museum is near the shores of Clear Lake in rural California’s wine country. Right off Highway 20 in the town of Nice, it resides in what looks like a garage. But what’s inside will surprise visitors as they are treated to all things retro, including lunch boxes to suit any childhood—from Strawberry Shortcake to the Lone Ranger (thermos included in most cases). The collection spans the walls, rests on shelves near the ceiling, and fills the...

Is This an Australian Salt Lake or...

October 12, 2021

Splatters of color, red as viscera and yellow as bile, stain an otherwise ghostly landscape. Salt formations resemble bones and body parts when seen from overhead, creating an unsettling piece of art that might be mistaken for a crime scene photo. Photographer Timothy Moon, who captured this arresting image of Australia’s Lake Tyrrell using a drone, compared the site to “a beating heart laid bare.” The vivid colors in Moon’s photograph, taken from about 250 feet above the lakebed,...

Podcast: Sourdough Library

October 12, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we bring you a Gastro Obscura classic: Inside a living, breathing collection of sourdough starters in Belgium. Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide is a whirlwind tour of the world’s edible wonders is officially out today. Order your copy now! Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll...

These Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of...

October 11, 2021

This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. When caterpillars of a beautiful butterfly were introduced to the tiny island of Sottunga in the Åland archipelago, scientists hoped to study how the emerging butterflies would disperse across the landscape. But researchers did not realize that their introduction of the Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) would lead to the emergence of three other species, which sprang out of the butterfly like...

Clearing Up Some Myths About Victorian 'Postmortem'...

October 11, 2021

Victorian England had a unique relationship with death. Because Victorians died young, died quickly, and died of injuries and infections modern medicine helped abolish, they invented elaborate grieving rituals to give meaning to their loved ones’ ephemeral lives. All of this happening at the same time as advances in photography led to the prevalence of postmortem photos, where Victorians would haul out their dead, prop them up on stands, and take a picture worth a thousand words. These stands...

Les Étagères de la Nuit (Shelves of...

October 11, 2021

Located in the Saint-Paul Aurélien cathedral in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, Les Étagères de la nuit (“Shelves of the night”) contain 31 “skull boxes” that date from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Each box contains one genuine human skull, most of which you can have a quick peek at through a heart- or trefoil-shaped hole. Skull boxes were commonly used to keep a track of the deceased while clearing out the graveyards in order to leave space for new tombs. Five years after...

Sawley Abbey in Sawley, England

October 11, 2021

Whether you are interested in the history or the architecture or just looking for a picnic site with an unusual backdrop Sawley Abbey is well worth a visit. The site is directly alongside the River Ribble and sits just inside the Forst of Bowland “area of outstanding natural beauty.” It is the ruin of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery established by monks from northeast England and has a history of conflict and bloodshed After its formation, the monastery got by for many years,...

Thunder Dome Car Museum in Enumclaw, Washington

October 11, 2021

Tucked into the small town of Enumclaw, Washington, this museum is packed with a rotating collection of classic, vintage, and other exotic import cars sure to capture visitors’ attention. On any given day, visitors might see a Model T Firetruck from 1921, a 1964 Falcon Sprint, race legend Sam Auxier Jr’s ford racing rig, or the Boss 429 Mustang. The museum started as a home for private collector’s vehicles and has grown ever since. Proceeds help benefit the Epilepsy...

The Wreck of the Dorcas Pendell in...

October 11, 2021

The wreck of the Dorcas Pendell is a rare treat— a shipwreck in crystal clear shallow water. No need for scuba gear, a quick kayak trip in a sheltered bay and visitors can almost touch the wreckage. Constructed in 1884, the Dorcas Pendell was a 149 foot long, two-masted schooner that plied the Great Lakes for years until it was grounded during the Big Storm of 1913. Eventually, the ship eventually caught fire and burned to the waterline. The...

The Dolphin Fountain in East Melbourne, Australia

October 11, 2021

Fitzroy Gardens has several quirky sights and attractions scattered across 64 acres of green space, but none received such mixed reviews than The Dolphin Fountain. Situated in the middle of the park at the edge of the Central Business District in East Melbourne, this fine monument consists of a pyramid of granite boulders, on top of which lie a variety of different sea creatures. Visitors will find dolphins, octopuses, crabs, sea birds, sea turtles, and many more aquatic animals...

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