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Spar Cave in Elgol, Scotland

September 23, 2021

Located on the Isle of Skye, Spar Cave is only accessible for an hour on either side of low tide, but for those prepared to brave the wet and brief clamber over the rocks, hides a beautiful cavern and a place steeped in local legend and literary history. Reaching the cave is no easy task. Visitors must traverse a canyon that drives some 200 feet inland, where walls of rock rise at least 100 feet tall on either side. The...

Meet the Afghan Kurdish Poet Who Finds...

September 23, 2021

Hajjar Baban has a shy smile that flickers across her face when she speaks about her work. Her voice is confident, but interrupted by long, contemplative pauses. “I’m someone who just cares a lot, maybe too much sometimes, about everything.” Then that smile makes a brief appearance. Still in her early 20s, Baban has already earned international notice for her intense and sometimes harrowing poems. Earlier this year she received a prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New...

Michelin House in London, England

September 23, 2021

In 1911, this building was one of London’s most elaborate and distinctive buildings. What has come to be known as the Michelin House was developed by Francois Espinasse, an employee of the French tire manufacturer, to house the company’s premier United Kingdom headquarters. Espinasse incorporated many shapes reflecting the Art Nouveau style. He also included many features that represented the business’s products, as well as the logo. One of the many striking elements is a trio of large stained glass windows depicting...

Haunted Margaritas in Concord, New Hampshire

September 23, 2021

All locations of Margaritas—the New England chain restaurant—offer chips, salsa, and, well, margaritas. But only one serves them to customers seated inside jail cells. Before 1 Bicentennial Square in Concord was a Mexican restaurant, it housed the Concord Police Department. From 1890 to 1975, cops came and went, occasionally locking people under arrest in the building’s jail cells. Margaritas opted to keep the cells, placing tables inside and in the hallways. From the outside, the colorful restaurant signs clash...

St. Bridget's Kirk in Dalgety Bay, Scotland

September 23, 2021

Situated between the coastal towns of Dalgety Bay and Aberdour on the shores of the Firth of Forth, lies the ruins of this historic place of worship. Historic records first note the existence of the church in 1178, and is thought it was most likely constructed around that time. It was in a Papal Bull written by Pope Alexander III that “The Church at Dalgety with its appurtenances” was first found in a public decree. The church was later appropriated...

George H.W. Bush Birthplace in Milton, Massachusetts

September 23, 2021

What do you think of when you think of George H.W. Bush? Of course, he was America’s 41st President, the Vice-President under Reagan, and the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency. But what about his life before public life? Famously, Bush owned and operated a gigantic oil company, the Bush-Overbey Oil Development Company, in Texas. It was here he amassed his fortune and first gained notoriety. Texas would also be where he first began his career in government,...

Caddie Woodlawn Historical Park in Menomonie, Wisconsin

September 23, 2021

The Wisconsin frontier inspired many to tell stories about growing up in the wilderness. Carol Ryrie Brink captured some of her grandmother’s, Caroline Augusta Woodhouse’s stories about the period in her Newbery Award-winning book Caddie Woodlawn. Though some of the portrayals of Native Americans in the book are dated and misleading, the book offered a snapshot of the time. Before Laura Ingalls arrived at the Little House in the Big Woods, Caroline “Caddie” Woodhouse lived in the Wisconsin woods...

Podcast: Magical Summer Memories Vol. 3 –...

September 23, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. All summer we’ve been asking you to send us your summer travel stories. In this installment of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we hear a listener’s tale of a theological dispute that became a real money-maker, known to some as “Old Hoaxy.” 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...

4 Ways Hotels can Leverage AI &...

September 23, 2021

AI and big data unlock opportunities for hotels to boost their direct revenue and operational efficiency while offering instant and personalized guest experiences. This article will focus on 4 ways hotels can leverage AI and Big Data to engage customers in the hotel direct booking process and drive their direct sales. 1) Deliver Instant Service The post 4 Ways Hotels can Leverage AI & Big Data to Boost Direct Sales appeared first on Revfine.com.

Tracing the Funky Story of D.C. Go-Go,...

September 22, 2021

Go-go is the rhythm of Washington, D.C. This homegrown musical genre—funk-adjacent, featuring percussion, bass, and call-and-response between the lead singer and the audience—emerged from the city’s Black music scene in the 1970s. Though the late Chuck Brown’s “Bustin’ Loose,” now a D.C. anthem, hit #34 on the Billboard charts in 1979, go-go never really caught on nationally. But its history is an important part of the story of the city, says District of Columbia Public Library archivist Derek Gray,...

Wanted: Sweet Skunks That Do Sick Stunts

September 22, 2021

The posters went up all over Texas: Keep an eye out for this spotted rascal, considered armed and extremely odorous, and wanted dead or alive. The fugitive’s mugshot was, quite frankly, adorable. Meet the charismatic, but sometimes stinky, spotted skunk. While all skunks douse would-be predators with a noxious spray, only the spotted skunk announces its intention to do so in a wholly ostentatious fashion: on its front paws, in a dramatic handstand with its tail skyward. The acrobatic...

Kempe Stones in Dundonald, Northern Ireland

September 22, 2021

County Down has an abundance of ancient standing stones, with this a rare example in the north of the county, sited not far from Strangford Lough, with views of Scrabo Tower, and close to the sprawling, modern, Ballybeen housing estate. This particular example, known as the Kempe Stones, or occasionally Greengraves, is a portal tomb or dolmen. The name Kempe Stone may derive from the Norse word Kampesten, which means big stone or prehistoric tomb. It features two large upright stones,...

The Curious Task of Digitizing Darwin’s Beans...

September 22, 2021

Emma Nichols never expected the beans to squeak. There were 392 of them in total, each concealed within brittle paper packets containing anywhere from one to 42 legumes of varying sizes and provenances. No one had paid much attention to them for more than a century, but now the beans needed to be sorted, counted, and preserved for posterity in the digital realm. “I devised a method of cleaning them using a polyurethane sponge between some tweezers,” says Nichols,...

Manantiales el Aguacate in Xodhé, Mexico

September 22, 2021

On the bottom of a dramatic canyon, a set of three stone-built pools gather warm spring water in a perfect location to retire from the urges of the world and enjoy a quiet time (while the children splash on the pool). This incredible place is located in Xodhé, a community within the municipality of Cadereyta. Located between the limits of Querétaro and Hidalgo is this natural paradise a thermal spring in the middle of a semi-arid landscape. Getting to el...

Henderson House in Falls Church, Virginia

September 22, 2021

After marrying in 1910 and moving to Falls Church, Virginia, the Henderson House was built in 1913 by Dr. E.B. Henderson and his wife, Mary Ellen Meriwether using a Sears Kit. In response to an ordinance that threatened to segregate the town along racial lines, Henderson teamed up with Joseph Tinner and seven other men to form the Colored Citizens Protective League, which morphed into the first rural branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...

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