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Casa Gilardi in Mexico City, Mexico

August 31, 2021

Luis Barragán was a Pritzker Prize winning architect whose work came to represent an architectural trend born in his native Guadalajara known as the Escuela Tapatía de Arquitectura. He was living in retirement in mid-1970s Mexico City when Francisco “Pancho” Gilardi and Martín Luque approached him for a home design. Gilardi and Luque, partners in an advertising firm, invited an unconvinced Barragán to the site where the house was to be built. Impressed by a large jacaranda tree on the...

An Australian Lake Returns to Life Amid...

August 31, 2021

On a bright, cloudless April morning, the water began to flow. As the dam gates opened, the welcome flood sheeted down a concrete spillway and onto cracked, orange-brown ground for the first time in five years. Here, in the remote northwestern corner of New South Wales, Lake Menindee, the largest of nine lakes strung together like a beaded necklace, was finally becoming a lake once more. A few weeks later, when a satellite zipped overhead, it captured Lake Menindee...

Ohrmann Museum & Gallery in Drummond, Montana

August 31, 2021

On the way down Highway 1 in Montana, there are some odd signs for a place that is “usually open.” They’re for the Ohrmann Museum, a yard filled with large metal sculptures. The yard is filled with animals and insects, both contemporary and prehistoric, all crafted of metal. You’ll be amazed at the creative artwork on display—one walk around the building isn’t enough. Looking at the details of each work of art makes one happy this is shared with the...

Smoke Hole Caverns in Cabins, West Virginia

August 31, 2021

Over the course of millions of years, drops of water carved out the expanse of the Smoke Hole Caverns. And drop by drop, the stalactites and stalagmites that fill the caves were formed through the slow accumulation of minerals. Though West Virginia has more than 4,000 caves, Smoke Hole is one of the few commercial caves (that is, caves for visitors who don’t want to go full-on spelunking). The Smoke Hole Caverns first opened to the public in 1940,...

Summersville Lake Lighthouse in Mt Nebo, West...

August 31, 2021

A construction crew was installing wind turbines in Beech Ridge, a wind farm project in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, and Summersville Lake Retreat in neighboring Mount Nebo became the summer home for one of the crew members. The Lake Retreat staff would admire the massive steel towers, their blades stretching half a football field, as they drove by each day. What if, someone asked, what if one of those towers found its way to us? We’d plant it high...

Thorny Mountain Fire Tower in Dunmore, West...

August 31, 2021

In 1933, Camp Seneca was established in West Virginia by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The program was established in the wake of the Great Depression as a jobs program for unemployed men. The work was often labor-intensive, as men were put to work building trucking roads, planting trees, and carving out hiking trails. They built state and national parks, and dotted them with structures—cabins, bridges, dams, and fire towers. Today, tucked away among the 12,884 acres of what is...

New Italy in New Italy, Australia

August 31, 2021

New Italy was a community founded in 1882 by survivors of the disastrous de Rays Expedition, a deceptive venture perpetrated by French nobleman, Marquis de Rays, who conned hundreds of Venetians into believing they were leaving behind the poverty of their homeland for the paradise of a prosperous colony known as New France on the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. Despite both the French and Italian governments banning the expedition from departing from their respective countries and warning...

The Original Home of A&W Root Beer...

August 31, 2021

A&W had a humble start, for what was to become both a root-beer behemoth as well as the first-ever franchised restaurant chain. Roy Allen, a hotelier by trade, bought a root-beer recipe and ingredients from a pharmacist in Arizona in 1919. Being the entrepreneur that he was, he soon decided to sell his brew. Allen settled in Lodi, California, and on June 14, 1919, he began selling root beer to townsfolk during a parade. His original root-beer cart is...

Podcast: Big Bertha Drum

August 31, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit the controversially named Big Bertha at the University of Texas, the world’s biggest bass drum—once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project. 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 meet some fascinating people and hear...

Fior D' Italia in San Francisco, California

August 30, 2021

Fior D’ Italia closed its doors in May 2012 to sad howls from the San Francisco culinary community. The restaurant was already venerable by then: For 126 years, it had served plates of pasta and veal to presidents and Pavarotti. It wasn’t a bad run for a place that got its start at a brothel in 1886. But San Francisco only went without Fior D’ Italia for about six months. The restaurant reopened in December 2012, in the same...

Fall Creek Falls in Swan Valley, Idaho

August 30, 2021

This little gem in Idaho feels like it came out of a movie or was designed as a theme park attraction, but it is a beautiful natural wonder. A small creek tumbles down step-like cliffs overlooking the Snake River as it meanders through the beautiful Swan Valley. The cascading waterfall creates several mossy veiled grottos, where adventurers can wade into small chambers and watch the water droplets shimmer down. You can also relax in the shallow sitting pools in...

Why Is There Just One Top Banana?

August 30, 2021

This article is adapted from the August 28, 2021, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. I eat a banana just about every day. But for almost my entire life, I only ever ate one kind: the Cavendish. Originally from China, it’s the banana variety that conquered the world: the same color, taste, and shape nearly everywhere you go. But in the banana’s ancestral homelands—Southeast Asia, India, various Pacific Islands—the fruit is found in...

Sir Arthur Chichester Mural in Carrickfergus, Northern...

August 30, 2021

The Chichester family has been connected with Ireland for over 400 years, but there was one member of the fabled family that stands out in Carrickfergus history. Arthur Chichester came to Ireland in 1597 after his brother Sir John Chichester, Governor of Carrickfergus was beheaded by the Native Irish clan leader Hugh O’Neill after the Battle of Carrickfergus. Arthur a professional soldier who had served against the Spanish Armada, as well as in many other foreign wars, was a...

The Story Bank in Maryborough, Australia

August 30, 2021

The magical, colorful story of Mary Poppins—the stern yet ethereal nanny, friend to every screever, constellation, and animal—has its origins in, of all places, the serious confines of a bank. Mary Poppins book series author, P.L. Travers, was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, on August 9, 1899, in the top floor apartment of the Australian Joint Stock Bank managed by her father, Travers Goff. Goff had always been a dreamer and a storyteller himself. A child at heart, he...

Sharp Point Crash Site in Bedford, Virginia

August 30, 2021

An Army Air Force B-25D flying a nighttime navigation training mission was supposed to be a routine exercise, however, it ended in tragedy. On February 2, 1943, the plane crashed at 3,100 feet on the side of Sharp Top Mountain in southwest Virginia. The forest is slowly reclaiming the wreckage but still visible is a large portion of one wing, a large radial engine, and some unidentified pieces wrapped around trees. There were five crewmen aboard this tragic flight, whose...

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