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The ‘Swell’ Job of Sorting Out New...

August 2, 2021

The research vessel bobbed in the southwestern Pacific like a toy boat in a bathtub. Three scientists watched numbers scroll across a monitor as the minutes ticked by on another 12-hour shift. The instruments collecting that raw data had been deployed days earlier in a line on the ocean floor. Now, the ship was towing a fish-shaped transmitter just above the seabed to pick up the remote devices’ signals and send them back to the vessel. Things were going...

Rexhame Beach in Marshfield, Massachusetts

August 2, 2021

A raging storm in November 1898 permanently altered the course of two rivers on the South Shore of Massachusetts, filling their original inlet with a lovely stretch of sand that is today’s Rexhame public beach in the coastal town of Marshfield. The storm, known as the Portland Gale, created the beach and carved a new mouth for the North River three miles up the coast, while extending the length of the South River by three miles. It also made...

Dixville Notch in Colebrook, New Hampshire

August 2, 2021

In 2010, the United States Census reported the population of Dixville Notch, an unincorporated community less than 50 miles south from the Canadian border, as just 12 people. Yet these 12 people make up one of the most trivial phenomenons in the United States: They’re the first citizens to vote in the U.S. Presidential Election. How? Well, the answer is simple. The residents of the town merely meet together in the ballroom of the grand Balsams Hotel (also in...

Leśniewo U-Boat Locks in Leśniewo, Poland

August 2, 2021

Before World War II saw the historical region of Masuria in East Prussia fall into Polish hands, German engineers had long dreamt of building a canal to connect the Great Masurian Lakes to the Baltic Sea. Construction of the Masurian Canal eventually began in 1911 but was interrupted by war and political turmoil in Germany—until the war put an end to the project, seemingly for good. Today, the canal’s partially completed locks are scattered across northern Poland and Russia’s Kaliningrad...

Pockwockamus Rock in Millinocket, Maine

August 2, 2021

Driving into Baxter State Park, visitors may notice a huge colorful boulder on the side of the road. The rock is painted with a classic outdoor scene depicting streams, trees, wildlife, and the famous Katahdin peak rising in the background. The scene is emblazoned with a message that admonishes viewers to “Keep Maine Beautiful.” This is, of course, applicable to most forms of environmental destruction. The message can also be interpreted as a response to the vandalism the rock...

Caldwell-Lake George Library in Lake George, New...

August 2, 2021

The Caldwell-Lake George Library collection dates back to the 1880s when local resident DeWitt Clinton Hay died. Hay bequeathed his extensive personal library and artifact collection to the town to be consolidated into a free library. The library was constructed in 1906. The original librarian, Mary Hubbell, served the community at the library until 1958. There have only been five librarians at Caldwell over the course of its storied history. Among Hay’s collection were several old tomes, some of...

In Hot, Dry Weather, Snow Can Disappear...

August 2, 2021

This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. Creeks, rivers, and lakes that are fed by melting snow across the American West are already running low as of mid-July 2021, much to the worry of farmers, biologists, and snow hydrologists like me. This is not surprising in California, where snow levels over the previous winter were well below normal. But it is also true across Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, which...

Tower Bridge’s Dead Man’s Hole in London,...

August 2, 2021

Beneath the northern end of London’s famous Tower Bridge is a Victorian reminder of the River Thames’ gruesome history. On the eastern side of the bridge, visitors will find an alcove overlooking the dark waters of the river. This hollow stands out when compared to its neighboring tunnels, with its glossy white tiles as opposed to dark stone cobbles. Known romantically as Dead Man’s Hole, the alcove served as an architectural net to catch the dead bodies that were carried...

Planetary Radio Emissions Discovery Site in Poolesville,...

August 2, 2021

In 1955, a pair of researchers from the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. named Bernard Burke and Kenneth Franklin were working in a relatively new area of astronomy when they made an unexpected discovery. Researchers had already discovered several sources of radio waves in the sky, and the two were using a sophisticated antenna called the Mills Cross Array to build upon existing knowledge. The Mills Cross Array was developed by Australian radio astronomer B.Y. Mills and Martin Ryle...

Podcast: Salton Sea

August 2, 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 Salton Sea to hear the story of how humans desperate for water created a lake the size of the city of Los Angeles—and how that thirst turned toxic. 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...

Original Taco Bell Sign in Savannah, Georgia

July 31, 2021

Drivers might do a double-take on seeing this particular version of the Taco Bell sign, located in Savannah, Georgia. Older fast-food aficionados, though, would recognize it as the Mexican-inspired chain’s first logo. The brightly colored shapes suggest a figure wearing a large sombrero and a serape, sitting on a tilted bell. This logo was in use for the first 10 years of Taco Bell’s existence, from 1962 to 1972. For the next few years after that, the company’s official...

The Youth Reforesting Puerto Rico With Soursop,...

July 30, 2021

When the fury of Hurricane Maria subsided long enough to allow Amira Odeh to leave her grandmother’s home in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, she stepped into a terrifying scene. “It was like waking up in a sci-fi, alien-invasion kind of movie,” she says. “All of this destruction.” The storm that swept through the Caribbean in the fall of 2017 devastated Puerto Rico, where Odeh was born and raised. High winds, floods, and landslides killed people across the island, destroyed the...

House at Otowi Bridge in San Ildefonso...

July 30, 2021

The name Otowi comes from the Tewa word p’otsuivi, meaning “gap where water sinks.” It is an appropriately descriptive name for the area, located along the Rio Grande at the head of White Rock Canyon. In 1886, a station and bridge were built here for the Chili Line, a narrow-gauge railroad that ran from Antonito, Colorado to Santa Fe. In 1923, a post office was built here to serve the Los Alamos Ranch School. In 1928, Edith Warner, a...

The Leaning Brownstone in Brooklyn, New York

July 30, 2021

Walking past 633 Union Street, you may not notice anything’s amiss at first. But if you step back and take another look, you may notice that the building is off-kilter. A closer inspection also shows mismatched brickwork that curves slightly inward on the right side. An awning on the front of the building identifies it as the Leaning Brownstone. Despite its name, the building is not a brownstone, as it is not a townhouse made of brown sandstone nor was...

During the English Civil War, Women Fought,...

July 30, 2021

Pistols at the ready, Jane Ingilby sat in the hush of the castle’s library, careful not to drop her guard. All night she watched her captive: a cavalry commander of growing acclaim named Oliver Cromwell. “I imagine Cromwell, who had just won the greatest military victory of his career, was stunned to find himself effectively held prisoner by a woman,” says Sir Thomas Ingilby, the 27th generation of his family to live at Ripley Castle in Yorkshire, England. For...

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