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Podcast: World's Loneliest Tree

September 8, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we travel about 400 miles south of New Zealand. Here, on the subantarctic Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, stands a Sitka spruce whose nearest neighbor is 170 miles away. 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 the way you’ll...

Ode to a Denny's Hobbit Menu

September 7, 2021

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE SEPTEMBER 4, 2021, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. In the winters of 2012 and 2013, Denny’s offered, of all things, themed menus based on the first two Hobbit movies. The sheer hilarity of this partnership means I can still rattle off menu items from memory: Radagast’s Red Velvet Pancake Puppies. The Hobbit Hole Breakfast. Gandalf’s Gobble Melt. Sadly, I never made it to Denny’s to try...

Hobo Joe in Buckeye, Arizona

September 7, 2021

Herb Applegate moved to Phoenix from Detroit in the 1960s. With a successful background in restaurant management, he quickly found investors in his newest venture: an affordable, family-friendly coffee shop and restaurant. Hobo Joe’s Coffee Shops were represented by an eponymous mascot who was meant to be a mixture of urbane sophistication and lovable tramp. Described in ad copy as a “World Traveler, Philosopher, and Connoisseur of Good Food,” he was meant to evoke refined taste and thriftiness. Although...

Church Pillars of Sai Island in Wadi...

September 7, 2021

Sai Island is a tiny island in the Nile stretching just five kilometers across and 12 kilometers long, but it contains ruins spanning thousands of years and several empires. Though Sudan is now primarily an Islamic country, a medieval Christian empire known as Makuria flourished in Sudan between the 7th and 14th centuries. Despite the length of its existence, there are still many unanswered questions about Makuria and its people. Sai Island was once a bishop’s see (residence). The...

Hall's Hill Wall in Arlington, Virginia

September 7, 2021

The neighborhood of Halls Hill emerged from the plantation owned by Basil Hall, a slaveowner whose family was infamously cruel. To wit, Hall became a widower when his first wife, Elizabeth, was so abusive to an enslaved woman named Jenny Farr that she cast Elizabeth into a hearth, killing her. Ms. Farr was later sentenced to death for the murder. Hall purchased 327 acres of land in 1850, but was forced to flee his home in 1861 due to...

Richmond Bridge in Richmond, Australia

September 7, 2021

Bridges are commonplace, so what makes the Richmond Bridge in Tasmania such a unique destination? It has the distinction of being Australia‘s oldest existing stone arch bridge. Bigge’s Bridge was named after Royal Commissioner John Thomas Bigge, who suggested the bridge’s construction in 1820. It was constructed by incarcerated laborers, men imprisoned in the nearby Richmond Gaol, which was a regular practice at the time for big construction and road projects. These incarcerated workers were forced to mine sandstone from...

Can India Solve Its Macaque Conundrum With...

September 7, 2021

Excerpted and adapted from Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law, by Mary Roach, available September 14, 2021, from W.W. Norton. The Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun is a thrown-down cluster of concrete buildings connected by outdoor walkways. Because these corridors have no walls, rhesus monkeys from the neighboring forest can occasionally be seen walking along behind or beside the humans. Neither species pays the other much mind, as if the monkeys, too, have meetings to get to and...

Collection of Peddler Bicycles in Almenno San...

September 7, 2021

Tino Sana Carpenter Museum (Museo del Falegname) is a personal collection of carpenters’ workshops and tools, musical instruments, puppets, sleighs, boats, motorbikes, bicycles, and much, much more. Each and every thematic section of the museum is special and unique in its own way, but the peddler bicycle section is definitely the shining star. Peddler bicycles are bicycles that were equipped by an artisan for a specific work-related purpose. These bicycles were made from the end of the 1800s to...

“Angels” of Ek' Balam in Ekbalam, Mexico

September 7, 2021

Ek’ Balam, the archaeological site whose name means “Black Jaguar” and comes from a legendary, unverified founder of the same name, has many distinctive characteristics that make it notable. Its taller pyramidal structure which, as is the case with many similar structures in Mexico, is commonly known as the Acropolis nowadays, can still be climbed freely (unlike El Castillo at Chichén Itzá, for example). At a maximum height of 31 meters, it offers an impressive sight over the rest of...

Jefferson Rock in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

September 7, 2021

This incredible vantage point is named after Thomas Jefferson after it inspired him to write an impassioned description of his experience when visiting this location in his 1785 book, Notes on the State of Virginia. The following portion of his description appears on a historical marker located a short distance from the formation: “On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac...

Pine Valley Chapel in Pine Valley, Utah

September 7, 2021

In 1855, pioneer Isaac Riddle discovered Pine Valley while driving cattle from Santa Clara to cooler valleys in the north. He immediately recognized the value of the lumber in the area and opened the first lumber mill. Soon, others followed and a community developed around the lumber mills. As the community grew, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints settlers wanted to build a new place to worship. Many of them had come from New England and wanted...

Front Royal Quartermaster Remount Depot in Front...

September 7, 2021

On property now home to the Northern Virginia 4H Educational and Conference Center are the well-worn remnants of an organization created to fulfill the U.S. Army’s unabated need for horses and mules that continued through the Second World War. By the early 1900s, the popularity of the automobile made it increasingly difficult to procure substantial quantities of quality military horses on the private market. To ensure an adequate equine supply for cavalry, artillery, and pack units, the Army’s Quartermaster...

Podcast: Million Dollar Point

September 7, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we head to Vanuatu in the South Pacific and go underwater to visit a very strange place from a very strange episode at the end of World War II. 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 the way you’ll...

MiG-21 Monument in Zelenikovo, Bulgaria

September 6, 2021

You could be forgiven to think that Zelenikovo, a small rural village with a population of less than 300, has little to offer to a tourist or passerby. But the small town in the heart of Bulgaria is home to a relic of the Soviet era: A wonderfully preserved jet fighter Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 sits on a pedestal at the side of the main road that crosses town north-to-south, tucked between the small houses. The supersonic aircraft was designed by...

Southern Cemetery in Manchester, England

September 6, 2021

As you head south out of the city of Manchester, the cities huge Southern Cemetery houses some of its biggest names. Opened in 1879 in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, the municipal cemetery is the largest in the United Kingdom and was originally a 100-acre plot of land, bought for the princely sum of £38,340 by the Manchester Corporation in 1872. It was expanded by another 90 acres in 1926, although some of this land has subsequently been developed for housing and some has...

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