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These Carved Camels Are the Oldest Life-Sized...

October 6, 2021

Deep in the northern Arabian Desert, in a sleepy farming community, huge red boulders rise out of the sand. The farmers already knew that the boulders abutting their fields were something special. When they looked closely at the towering rock edifices, they could just make out enormous, life-sized carvings of camels and hooved, horse-like animals. For millennia, the site has sat largely undisturbed, except for the occasional rooster crowing or dog barking on a nearby farm. In 2010, the...

Podcast: The Last White Deer of Mount...

October 6, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we hear the story of the white deer on Mount Madonna, the two robber barons who put them there, and the last survivor of the herd. We have a new book coming out! It’s called Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world’s edible wonders. Pre-order your copy, and as a bonus you’ll get...

How Historians of Modern Tattooing Explore a...

October 5, 2021

One of the challenges facing tattoo historians today is that many owners of historically significant material—from actual pieces of preserved human flesh to suggested patterns, some of them a little grotesque—don’t come forward to share their finds, out of fear that scholars and the public would dismiss the subject as superficial or repulsive. Undeterred, every year these historians are probing ever deeper into inking traditions worldwide. They are documenting rare tools and designs and uncovering provenance trails of tattooed...

Pioneer Mom and Daughter Roadside Statue in...

October 5, 2021

To most, a pioneer mother in a bonnet, holding a pie with her daughter clutching her dress sounds cute and comforting; but when visitors first lay eyes on the 15-foot statue outside Granny’s Motel in Frackville, Pennsylvania this roadside sculpture is anything but comforting. The Pioneer Mom statue was created for the Pot-O-Gold Diner in Hamburg but was installed at its current location when the diner closed its doors. Originally green and white, the figures were repainted a “happier”...

Carlyle House Historic Park in Alexandria, Virginia

October 5, 2021

John Carlyle was born in 1720 in England, the second son of an apothecary surgeon. He emigrated to Virginia in 1741 as an agent of merchant William Hicks. He built his own career as a merchant in Belhaven, a settlement that would later become Alexandria, Virginia in 1749. Carlyle was one of the founders of the burgeoning city. That year, Carlyle purchased two, half-acre lots strategically located between the Potomac River and Market Square. He began construction of his...

The Grotesques of Urgnano Castle in...

October 5, 2021

Urgnano Castle was constructed in 1354 as a military outpost, but the existence of something akin to a fortress on the same location was attested by a document dating back to 1016. Several families owned the castle, but it was the Albani family in the 1400s that turned it into the stately mansion that can be seen today. The castle is currently in the hands of the Urgnano municipality. Urgano Castle ticks all the boxes of a fantasy castle,...

This Halloween, Step Into a Mannequin Graveyard

October 5, 2021

In Lincolnshire, England, Roz Edwards is known as the “Mannequin Lady.” Over the past fifteen years, Edwards has built an impressive a collection of some 15,000 human-like forms. She regularly rents them to shows like “X Factor” and “Top Gear,” but she has amassed so many that the majority now form a mountain. The 20-foot-tall mound that stretches for 150 feet was originally christened Dollywood, but is now called Mannakin Hall—to sound more posh, Edwards jokes. Photography, film and...

The Lyric in Fort Collins, Colorado

October 5, 2021

Part movie theater, part live performance venue, and part art gallery, the ever-evolving Lyric’s look is curated by an eclectic owner and an in-house Art Czar. Featuring the best outdoor patio views of the mountains in town, the whimsical artwork of the Lyric spills out onto the lawn and becomes a playground for kids and adults. Hosting a variety of events ranging from live music, DJs, stand-up comedy, local food dinners, costume dance parties, and circus performers, the Lyric...

Jardins de les 3 Xemeneies in Barcelona,...

October 5, 2021

The Jardins de les 3 Xemeneies, or the Garden of the Three Chimneys is an outdoor art museum with giant exhibits that change weekly. Located near Montjuïc in the Poble-sec neighborhood, the park gets its name from the three giant brick chimneys nearby. They are all that remains of an early 20th-century power station built by the Barcelona Traction Power and Light Company. Dominated by over a dozen concrete walls of various shapes and sizes, the space is designed...

Podcast: The Scarpetta House

October 5, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, after visiting Baltimore’s Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death in our previous episode, we move to the nearby Scarpetta House, where full-size reenactments help investigators perfect their skills in evaluating death. We have a new book coming out! It’s called Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world’s edible wonders. Pre-order your copy, and as...

In the Canadian Rockies, High Tea Is...

October 4, 2021

It might seem strange that tea is practically the official drink of the Canadian Rockies. Usually, trekkers tend to subsist on trail mix and as much water as can be comfortably carried. But visitors to Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, not only want to climb the glorious slopes, photograph the crystal lakes, and peer at the mighty glaciers. Whether spring, summer, or fall, many set out to visit one of the park’s century-old teahouses. At these two quaint...

Is This an Erupting Volcano or the...

October 4, 2021

The mechanical creature swooped over shadowlands. Like a bird of prey on the hunt, its eye scanned a landscape black as orc blood and broken only by glowing streams of lava. It flew through choking fumes, into the heart of a malodorous hell. There it saw, and preserved for all to see, what appeared to be a single, baleful eye staring back. Okay, it was a camera drone flying over a volcano that thousands of people were able to...

The Weekly Cross-Dressing Balls of 18th-Century Russian...

October 4, 2021

Way before businesswomen wore shoulder pads in the 1980s to shove their way into the male-dominated business world, Empress Elizabeth of Russia and her niece-in-law Catherine the Great pushed 18th-century sartorial gender norms to cement their authority. “The Empress had a fancy to have all men appear at the Court balls dressed as women and the women as men, without masks,” Catherine wrote in her memoirs. These “metamorphosis balls” became a weekly occurrence at the Russian court. Elizabeth...

Mannakin Hall in Fulbeck, England

October 4, 2021

In the East Midlands of England, Roz Edwards has assembled one of the world’s most unique collections: a pile of mannequins so high they form a mountain. Edwards started her business during the 2007 recession, when many clothing stores were shutting their doors and looking to get rid of things like mannequins. Edwards rents out the plastic models to shows like Top Gear and The X Factor and supplies them to artists and the local police department, which uses them for...

Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West...

October 4, 2021

Though Thomas Edison is commonly referred to as “The Wizard of Menlo Park,” it would be in West Orange, New Jersey, where his imagination and innovative spirit would truly run wild. In 1884, Edison’s first wife, Mary, died and Edison left Menlo Park to move to West Orange to expand operations. He’d already done extensive experimentation on long-lasting filaments in the electric lightbulb and was looking to explore other avenues of invention. Edison purchased roughly five blocks in the...

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