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Sorgente del Mercure (Mercure Wellspring) in Viggianello,...

August 27, 2021

About a kilometer and a half from the historic center of Viggianello, you find the Sorgente del Mercure (Mercure Wellspring), the birthplace of the Lao river, also known as the Mercure river in the Basilicata region. The wellspring has a flow of 2,000 liters per second and a temperature of a cool nine degrees Celsius (48 degrees Fahrenheit). Thanks to a settling tank built in the 1920s, the crystal clear water basin flows to a hydroelectric power plant through a covered...

Ghostly Satellite Image Captures the Arctic ‘Losing...

August 27, 2021

“We started hearing a noise, like breaking, or coins falling,” says Marco Tedesco, a climate scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He makes a loud, sustained crunching sound, recreating what he and his team heard, years earlier, while doing fieldwork on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Below the surface of the ice near where they were standing, a flood had begun. “The water below starts to move but you still have snow on top,” Tedesco says of the phenomenon....

Lockerbie Memorial Cairn in Arlington, Virginia

August 27, 2021

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, originating from Frankfurt, Germany, departed from Heathrow Airport in London, bound for New York City. Forty minutes into the flight, the plane exploded over the sky, above Lockerbie, Scotland. All 259 passengers and crew aboard were killed, as well as 11 Scots on the ground, who were struck by falling debris. The passengers and crew on Flight 103 hailed from 21 different countries and included 189 Americans, 15 of whom were...

Metro Farm in Sangdo 1(il)-dong, South Korea

August 26, 2021

A subway station in a skyscraper-studded metropolis might seem like an unlikely place to grow leafy greens, but that’s exactly what South Korean tech startup Farm8 has been doing since September 2019. Situated in Sangdo Station on Line 7 of the Seoul Metro, the company’s Metro Farm is a sleek, glass-encased plant nursery housing rows upon rows of hydroponic growing trays. Under the glow of LED lights and the attention of an automated tech network, 30 varieties of organic...

The Only Bookstore on Najafi Street

August 26, 2021

Tucked into an alleyway off Najafi Street in Mosul’s Old City is a small red and gold sign advertising a bookstore: Maktaba al-Sham. Not long ago, it was one of countless bookstores along the wide avenue lined with arched windows and doorways. Since the early 1900s the street has been a bustling cultural hub where intellectuals meet to sip tea, debate friends, and buy books. But today Najafi Street is in ruins, burned by the ISIS fighters who occupied...

Moenave Dinosaur Tracks in Tuba City, Arizona

August 26, 2021

Today the area around Moenave, Arizona in the Navajo Nation is a dusty, windswept expanse with breathtaking desert landscapes but not a tree or drop of water in sight. About 200 million years ago, however, the area was a marshy riverbed that preserved hundreds of footprints from the dinosaurs that trod across it. The preserved tracks are from the early Jurassic period. Geologists visiting the site hypothesized that there was likely shallow water flowing over the area when the...

Childers Backpacker Memorial in Childers, Australia

August 26, 2021

Sometime after midnight on June 23, 2000, a fire broke out at the historical Palace Hotel Backpackers Hostel in Childers, Queensland. Black smoke billowed from the second story, and flames engulfed the main stairwell and back courtyard, blocking the exits. While most of the first-floor residents managed to escape with only minor injuries; residents on the second floor struggled to get out, hampered by blocked doorways and safety bars on the windows. Some crawled underneath the smoke and down...

T. Rex Thrived in a Swampy Home,...

August 26, 2021

Today, southwestern Saskatchewan is a rugged swell of prairie. But in areas along the Frenchman River, the topography crumples into hilly bluffs and grass gives way to badlands built of layered gray and greenish-brown rock. To paleontologists, these cemented bands of clay and sandstone offer a window into the last days of the dinosaurs, some 66 million years ago. The Frenchman Formation is a bonanza of late Cretaceous fossils. Iconic species, such as three-horned Triceratops and armor-clad Ankylosaurus, have...

Maison de Nostradamus in Salon-de-Provence, France

August 26, 2021

One of the most famous visionaries in history spent his final 20 years in Salon, France, the town of his second wife, the rich widow Anne Ponsard. The reputed physician and astrologer lived in a tumultuous time—a time in which the plague wreaked havoc and free thought ended in the fire of heresy. Nostradamus was born in 1503 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and was one of nine children. In Salon, he wrote his prophecies about the future called Centuries. These predicted...

Chesterwood in Stockbridge, Massachusetts

August 26, 2021

Daniel Chester French may be the foremost sculptor of America’s Guilded Age. Locally, he’s known as the artist behind “The Minuteman Memorial” in Concord, Massachusetts, and several reliefs around Boston. Internationally, he’s known as the designer of the Pulitzer Prize medallion and sculptor behind the iconic Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. But in the small Berkshire town of Stockbridge, French is known as the town’s favorite son (well, maybe second-favorite behind Norman Rockwell). Born in New Hampshire, French traveled...

Secretariat Pole in Elmont, New York

August 26, 2021

On June 9, 1973, a bright chestnut horse with three white socks and a narrow white blaze crossed the finish line at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York to become America’s ninth Triple Crown winner and the first since a horse named Citation in 1948. The horse was Secretariat, and he is considered by many to be the greatest thoroughbred racehorse of the 20th-century. Secretariat arrived in New York for the 105th running of the Belmont Stakes having already conquered...

Juan Rulfo House of Culture Mural in...

August 26, 2021

Built in 1912, this building was originally the seat of the local authority for the town of Mixcoac, in the outskirts of Mexico City. By 1970, when the city gained its most recent boroughs, the government of the Benito Juárez Borough would also be based from the building, as the urban sprawl had now fully engulfed the former town. Five years later, the Benito Juárez government would move to purpose-built installations, and a Cultural Center (known locally as Casa...

Cappella Colleoni in Bergamo, Italy

August 26, 2021

On the front gate, the sarcophagus, and the walls of Cappella Colleoni in Bergamo, you can see the coat of arms of the Colleoni family, which consists of three testicles. The origins of this unusual coat of arms likely stem from the etymological connection of the family name Colleoni and coglioni, the vulgar Italian term for testicles. So far, so good, but why three? Rumor has it that Bartolomeo was affected with polyorchidism, a rare congenital anomaly endowing one...

Podcast: Dead Companions

August 26, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we nearly stump host Dylan Thuras with a seemingly simple question: “Who are the top five dead people he would like to go on a road trip with?” 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...

Remembering When Bermuda Was an Onion Island

August 25, 2021

At just over 20 square miles, the island of Bermuda is barely a blip in the North Atlantic Ocean. Yet for much of the 1800s, this small British territory boasted an outsized reputation for one unlikely export: onions. In All About Bermuda Onions, Nancy Hutchings Valentine, a prominent Bermudian artist in her lifetime, writes that the island was growing 332,745 pounds of onions by 1844, mostly for foreign export. “Bermudian merchant seamen became known as ‘Onions’ and Bermuda was...

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