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Casa José Guadalupe Zuno Door in Guadalajara,...

July 29, 2021

Around 1923, the governor of Jalisco, José Guadalupe Zuno, constructed his house in one of the wealthiest areas of Guadalajara. To decorate the front door, he included engravings of various communist ideals of the time. The house was intended to be a French chalet, but his friends (including the muralists Orozco and Siqueiros) convinced him to make it a neocolonial mansion. The door is a critique of capitalism at that time. Among the decorations on the door are hammers,...

General Lew Wallace Study & Museum in...

July 29, 2021

Lew Wallace chose this place because of its proximity to his home. The home is owned by private parties and cannot be visited. However, his son kept the property that included his study, Carriage House, along with well-kept trees, gardens, and statuary. His forethought is the reason this location can be accessed by the public today. Wallace is often referred to as an innovator. When designing and building the study, he included items that were relatively unknown at that...

Were Black GIs Killed in a World...

July 29, 2021

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. Haywood Joiner Sr. was wandering about Lee Street, the bustling artery abutting the Black district of Alexandria, Louisiana. It was Saturday, January 10, 1942, a little over a month after Pearl Harbor. Hundreds of Black soldiers like Joiner were strolling in and out of bars and nightclubs, all under the watchful gaze of members of the predominantly white military police. Then there was a spark. It’s not clear why,...

Podcast: The Boiling River

July 29, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a river in the Amazon that is so hot that anything that falls into it dies. But how did it get this way? 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...

Meet the Woman Restoring Native American Peaches...

July 28, 2021

Reagan Wytsalucy grew up in Gallup, New Mexico, just outside the Navajo Nation reservation. Despite her Native heritage, she grew up “very absorbed into westernized culture,” she says. Her father owned several McDonald’s franchises on the reservation, and she never learned to speak the language. It wasn’t until she started to study plant sciences in college that her father told her about the peaches that once thrived on the reservation where he grew up. Centuries ago, the Navajo people...

Naegelin's Bakery in New Braunfels, Texas

July 28, 2021

This little bakery is the oldest in Texas. In business since 1868, it still sells authentic German baked goods in downtown New Braunfels (originally a German settlement). The extensive offerings include coffee cakes, cookies, pies, and the famous apple strudel, along with other offerings whose flavors will take you back in time: The owners say the strudel recipe is unchanged since the 1800s, and the brownies have a distinctly old-fashioned cocoa flavor. The bakery began when Edouard Naegelin, a German...

Union Jack Steps in Gibraltar

July 28, 2021

At the bottom of Devil’s Gap Road lie a series of steps painted in red, and blue, to celebrate the outcome of Gibraltar‘s first Sovereign Referendum in 1967. These steps are known locally as the Union Jack or Referendum Steps. Along with simply painted steps in the three colours, the steps also are painted with a Union Jack (the flag of the United Kingdom) as well as a reference to Queen Elizabeth II. The referendum on September 10, 1967,...

Castle of Villaviciosa de Odón in...

July 28, 2021

Hidden in a public park behind the narrow streets of Villaviciosa de Odón stands this somber-looking castle. Built in the early 15th-century, the castle is not far from where the settlement of Calatalifa once stood, which controlled movements up and down the Guadarrama river amid forests and renowned hunting grounds. In its long life, the castle endured sieges, served as a prison (famously for Manuel Godoy, prime minister and the queen’s lover), and garrison. It also acted as a...

Smithfield Schoolhouse Museum in Smithfield, Virginia

July 28, 2021

The Smithfield Schoolhouse Museum, a historic Rosenwald Schoolhouse, was originally constructed in 1932 as an addition to the Christian Home School. Julius Rosenwald, a former president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, contributed $4.3 million along with $4.7 million raised by Black communities to build over 5,000 schools across the south for the education of Black children. The Christian Home School was moved to its current location in historic Smithfield in February 2005 to be renovated and opened as a...

El Salto del Agua Waterfall in Arroyo...

July 28, 2021

El Salto del Agua (the jumping water) waterfall and the large cave behind it have an esteemed literary legacy. It inspired D. H. Lawrence’s 1924 short story “The Woman Who Rode Away,” and it was also the model for the Stone Lips cave in Willa Cather’s novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, published in 1927. During the summer months, the waterfall may dwindle to a trickle, but with the summer monsoons it can burst forth. During winter the waterfall...

Gyeonggyojang House in Seoul, South Korea

July 28, 2021

In Seoul’s historic Jongno district, a building with an elegant cream-colored front and a portico is nestled within a block patched with various medical facilities. Low-slung at a modest two stories, it has the qualities of an ornately crafted shoebox and is immediately distinguishable from the surrounding blocks of grey. The building, constructed in 1938, was first inhabited by a Korean mining mogul, who was a mercenary timeserver. In 1945, upon Korea’s liberation from the Japanese Colonial Empire, he...

The Aztec Hotel in Monrovia, California

July 28, 2021

The Aztec Hotel’s astonishing facade has drawn travelers for decades as they journeyed down what was once a part of historic Route 66 in Monrovia, California. For nearly as long, it’s has been ringed with rumor, scandal, innuendo, and suspicions that unrestful ghosts may roam its halls. Opened to the public in September 1925 with a star-studded debut party, the hotel almost immediately ran into serious financial trouble. According to author, photographer, historian, and paranormal researcher Craig Owens, who...

A Tour Through Italy's Massive 'Museum of...

July 28, 2021

Pierfrancesco Cenni flicks a switch on a portable fluorescent lantern, turns a knob to increase its intensity, and heads into the dark. “Use your phones’ flashlights, and put your feet where I put mine,” he calls out as he descends into the cool, damp underground air. At the bottom of a narrow flight of concrete stairs, with another flick, he turns on a massive fluorescent lamp, revealing a vast, two-story chamber, where thick cement pillars shoot up from bare...

Podcast: The Village Where Every Person’s Name...

July 28, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit Kongthong, India, where every person’s name is a unique song, composed by their mothers within a week of birth as part of a centuries-old tradition. 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...

Île Sainte-Marguerite in Cannes, France

July 27, 2021

On the other side of the sea from the glamorous Cannes, the silhouette of Île Sainte-Marguerite harbors an unsolved mystery. The island is part of the Lerins Islands and is articulated by several paths that run between pine and eucalyptus forests. At the island’s fortress, known as the Fort Royal, the mysterious “Man in the Iron Mask” was held captive for 11 years in the 17th century. In his 1751 work The Age of Louis XIV, Voltaire told the story of...

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