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This Italian Town Really, Really Likes Ocarinas

April 9, 2025

For thousands of years, humans across the world have played music using some version of the ocarina, a rounded wind instrument that produces a flute-like sound. In ancient China, ocarina-like instruments date back to 5,000 BC, and the Maya and the Aztecs used them in religious ceremonies. But the modern ocarina, a sweet potato–shaped instrument with 10 to 12 holes, was invented, by mistake, in the small Italian town of Budrio. Today, that same town is host to the...

Cordova Fisherman’s Memorial in Cordova, Alaska

April 9, 2025

Dedicated in 1985, The Cordova Fisherman’s monument stands quiet vigil over the town’s south harbor. Cordova stands as Prince William Sound’s gateway to the Gulf of Alaska, which experiences frequent storms as large and turbulent as Atlantic hurricanes. The Joan Jackson designed statue of a mariner seemingly guiding his vessel through a violent storm. He is surrounded by 132 plaques commemorating the lives of the men and women who spent their lives on the sea, including commercial fishermen, underwater...

Fu Garden in Taipei, Taiwan

April 9, 2025

Fu Garden (or Fu Ssu-nien Memorial Garden) sits quietly near the entrance of National Taiwan University. It commemorates Fu Ssu-nien, a prominent intellectual leader of China’s May Fourth Movement and NTU’s president during the turbulent time of the Chinese Civil War. Though his tenure lasted only a year or so between 1949 to until his passing in 1950, Fu played a crucial role in stabilizing the university’s administration. He is known as a champion of liberal values and a defender...

Chan Chi Kee Cutlery Co. in Hong...

April 9, 2025

From meat cleavers to woks to solid wood chopping boards and bamboo steamers, Shanghai Street, in Kowloon, sells it all. It’s Hong Kong’s go-to street for kitchen supplies, and one of the strip’s most legendary stores is Chan Chi Kee Cutlery Co. The current owner claims that the shop was started by his grandfather “Before WWII.” As the name indicates, the brand was originally known for its knives and cleavers. Until the ‘90s, they were made in Hong Kong....

Zenringai (Zen Temple Street) in Hirosaki, Japan

April 9, 2025

Just south of the historic center of Hirosaki is a unique street that seems to slip off the regular tourist radar. Zenringai (or Zenrin sanjūsan-ka-ji), which translates to the “forest of Zen temples,” is just what its name suggests: an avenue with 33 Japanese Buddhist temples, all part of the Sōtō school of Zen. While temple towns abound across Japan, it is rare for Buddhist temples of a single sect to be condensed in one neighborhood like this. It started...

Comic Sans Bathrooms in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

April 9, 2025

This rest stop in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, located off Green Bay Road, contains one of the Midwest’s best hidden gems: the Comic Sans Bathrooms. Both men’s and women’s bathrooms are adorned with yellow-gold walls and stalls on which you will find a wide variety of center-aligned quotes at haphazard angles. The text selections range in genre; there are inspirational quotes, tokens of sage advice, and tongue-in-cheek witticisms that would be equally at home on Homegoods wall hangings. Regardless of...

Lin Heung Tea House in Hong Kong

April 9, 2025

It’s not hard to find dim sum in Hong Kong, but finding the type of traditional place you have likely pictured in your mind is getting difficult these days.Ling Heung is thought to be Hong Kong’s oldest dim sum house. The restaurant can trace its roots back to mainland China in the late 19th century, and has been at its current location since 1996. Walk upstairs to a brightly-lit, noisy hall filled with round tables; you’ll most likely be...

Church of the Holy Cross in Nin,...

April 9, 2025

In contrast to the grandiose cathedrals in other parts of Europe, this “cathedral”—it lost that title in 1828—in the coastal island village of Nin measures just 7.8 meters long, 7.6 meters wide, and 8.2 meters high in its bare interior. Visitors will likely be surprised that, for centuries, such a small rural settlement—which is sleepy outside the tourist season—had a bishop and cathedral at all. But in fact, Nin was once one of the most important cities in the...

Lancaster County Courthouse in Lancaster, South Carolina

April 9, 2025

The old Lancaster County courthouse in South Carolina was constructed in 1828 and used as a courthouse for most of the last two centuries. Active use stopped due to an arsonist’s attempt to demolish the building in 2008. The building was subsequently restored in 2011 and is now the Lancaster History Museum. The design for the courthouse has been attributed to Robert Mills, a prominent early American architect, and for this reason the structure was designated as a national...

WEBB Military Museum in Savannah, Georgia

April 9, 2025

Webb Military Museum isn’t your typical museum, but rather, a privately owned collection of combat memorabilia and personal belongings curated over decades. The museum is a Savannah institution that marches to its own cadence, uniquely archiving military history by showcasing the experiences of people who experienced it firsthand. Spanning thousands of personal artifacts tightly packed into a 2,500-square-meter converted shopfront, the museum houses a diverse array of personal effects, such as diaries, letters, and uniforms. Principal artifacts include a...

Raising a Ghost Town From the Dead

April 8, 2025

Exploring the remnants of the former Brownsville General Hospital was a terrifying experience, even for me. It wasn’t just that the building was creepy, although it certainly was: full of long rooms lined with rusting hospital beds covered with chunks of paint and plaster, it felt like the real-world embodiment of every haunted place in a horror movie. Though I don’t put much stock in the supernatural, that doesn’t mean I’m immune to my imagination or the nagging suspicions...

Golden State Model Railroad Museum in Richmond,...

April 8, 2025

The Golden State Model Railroad Museum is home to highly detailed models and dioramas of Central and Northern California towns, roundhouses, street scenes, and stations. Various types of freight and passenger trains, from steam to modern diesel, wind their way through the scenes. The museum was opened in 1985 to celebrate the impressive models made by the East Bay Model Engineers Society. The Society is one of the oldest modeling clubs in the United States, founded in 1933 in San...

Lovecraft Arts & Sciences in Providence, Rhode...

April 8, 2025

Lovecraft Arts & Sciences is an eclectic little bookstore hidden away in the Arcade Mall in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. Despite its smaller size, the shop is densely populated with a niche yet wide selection of weird fiction, art, esoterica, academic texts, collectibles, and ephemera. Staffed by a rogues gallery of friendly bookworms, Lovecraft Arts & Sciences is a valuable resource for anyone new to genre fiction; the booksellers are always willing to offer guidance and recommendations. The store...

Oi Man Sang in Hong Kong

April 8, 2025

Follow the flames. Oi Man Sang, a restaurant in Hong Kong, can be located by the fire and smoke that emerges from its streetside, semi-open-air kitchen. Restaurants like this were once common in Hong Kong. They were known as dai pai dong, and at their peak, numbered in the hundreds. As early as the 1940s, Hong Kong’s health department started banning them, refusing to offer the “big license” (the eponymous dai pai) that permitted them to operate on the...

Tsukiji Hongan-ji Temple in Tokyo, Japan

April 8, 2025

When it was originally founded in 1617, the Tokyo branch of Kyoto’s Nishi-Hongwanji Buddhist Temple stood in today’s Higashi-Nihombashi district, until it burned down in the Great Fire of Meireki (1657). It was then set to be reconstructed in another location, closer to the sea. The Tsukiji area, famous today for its former fish market, was created for this purpose; the name, Tsukiji Hongan-ji or Hongwan-ji, literally means “reclaimed land.” The second Hongan-ji, built in 1679, again burned down in...

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