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International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska

July 27, 2021

Tucked away on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln‘s East Campus, the International Quilt Museum boasts the world’s largest quilt collection. Numbered in the thousands, quilts in the collection date from the 1600s to today and everything in between. While visitors may see quilts they may recognize from their own life, there’s plenty more to uncover. The IQM has an extensive collection of works made from around the world. Some of the most notable international collections include pieces made in China,...

Every Year, This Italian Town Hand-Delivers Salt...

July 27, 2021

On the Adriatic coast of Italy, under the hot sun, shirtless and barefoot as is the tradition, Oscar Turroni moves a long rake over a pool of water, separating salt from water and mud and pushing the salt into a mound in a crystallizing pond. There, the water will evaporate, leaving a gleaming mountain of crunchy white salt that Turroni will take to a burchiella, a flat-bottomed barge somewhat like a gondola, that will transport it across shallow lagoons...

Maine Mineral & Gem Museum in Bethel,...

July 27, 2021

The town of Bethel, Maine with a population of under 3,000 is home to the unassuming, yet nevertheless, stunning Maine Mineral & Gem Museum (MMGM), which opened in 2019. The main exhibit hall takes a local approach to geology, with the official Maine state mineral, tourmaline, on display along with other locally-sourced minerals such as amethyst, beryl, quartz, and many others. The MMGM also showcases a geological history of Maine, including the official state fossil, Petrica quadrifaria, believed to...

Bix Beiderbecke Museum & Archives in Davenport,...

July 27, 2021

When people think of great jazz music, the state of Iowa probably doesn’t come to mind. Yet, Iowa was the birthplace of Bix Beiderbecke, one of the most influential musicians of the Jazz Age. In 2017, a museum was built to preserve that history. Located in the basement of a concert venue in Davenport, IA, the Bix Beiderbecke Museum is described as a hidden gem by local residents. The permanent exhibit is packed with artifacts from the Prohibition Era...

Dunn Gardens in Seattle, Washington

July 27, 2021

The esteemed Olmsted Brothers Landscape firm designed the eight-acre Dunn Gardens in 1915. It is the only residential garden designed by the Olmsted firm that is open to the public in Washington state. Because of this, Dunn Gardens has both regional and national significance. The Olmsted Brothers were prolific landscape architects, famous for designing New York City‘s Central Park, the U.S. Capital in Washington, D.C., Biltmore Estates in North Carolina, the World’s Exposition in Chicago, Belle Isle in Detroit,...

A San Francisco Airport Site Is Crawling...

July 27, 2021

During a typical year, some 55 million people pass through San Francisco International (SFO), the nation’s seventh busiest airport. At some point during their journey to or from the terminal, each one of them will travel by a seemingly unremarkable 180-acre parcel of land, soggy and spartan, bounded by highways and train tracks, bisected by rows of power lines. It may look like any other overgrown vacant lot, but this one is home to the world’s largest population of...

Henry McNeill's Resting Place in Mid and...

July 27, 2021

Henry McNeill was born in the coastal village of Glenarm on February 14, 1836, and later moved to Larne Town in 1853 to start his own business in the tourism industry. He believed that the Antrim Coast was a spectacle that needed to be shared with the world. McNeill’s tourism business started as a hotel caterer and travel tour company, but as the development of the Larne Port and the Railway Line from Belfast to Larne progressed, so did tourism...

Silver Spring B&O Railroad Station in Silver...

July 27, 2021

The original Silver Spring B&O Railroad Station was constructed in 1878. By the mid-1930s, it offered residents in the northwest parts of Washington D.C. and surrounding areas of Maryland the convenience of not having to travel to Union Station in downtown D.C. for rail travel. The station was upgraded in 1945, laid on the foundation of the original station with embossed CALVERT bricks from Williamsport, Maryland. The newly-minted station was a fixture in downtown Silver Spring for decades, serving...

Podcast: The Kalamazoo Gals of the Old...

July 27, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we tell story of the women who stepped up to produce thousands of guitars during World War II, only to be written out of history. 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...

Mobile First: How to Boost Hotel Visibility...

July 27, 2021

Customer behavior is evolving from search to interaction, and mobile is driving this shift. Hotels that rethink their guest communication to meet new and evolving behavior will boost their hotel visibility and drive their direct bookings. In this article, we reveal the mobile behavior trends shaping the hospitality industry and how hotels can leverage them The post Mobile First: How to Boost Hotel Visibility and Drive Direct Bookings appeared first on Revfine.com.

How can Hotels use Virtual Reality to...

July 27, 2021

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel With travellers spending increased amounts of time consuming online content, how can hotels leverage VR (virtual reality) technology to capture their attention? Our Marketing Expert Panel Reshan Jayamanne – Digital Marketing & Sales Strategist, Bnb Optimized Susanne Williams – Performance and The post How can Hotels use Virtual Reality to Attract Guest Attention? appeared first on Revfine.com.

Dilkusha House (Albert W. Taylor House) in...

July 26, 2021

Nearly a century past its construction, a derelict colonial-style house in Seoul’s Jongno district has been restored. Its lformer residents—Albert W. Taylor, a Nevada-born businessman who worked in Korea’s mining industry, and his wife Mary L. Taylor, a British actor—witnessed and recorded critical moments in Korean history. In 1919, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, Albert was tapped to cover an abdicated Korean emperor’s funeral as a foreign correspondent. In the same year, Mary gave birth to their son...

Abbey Sewage Pumping Station in Leicester, England

July 26, 2021

The Abbey Pumping Station is an unusual science and technology museum in Leicester, England. Its main attraction is the set of four working steam-powered beam engines leftover from its time as a sewage pumping station, but it also houses a range of other exhibits. The building was constructed in 1891 by Leicester Corporation to pump the town’s sewage to the main sewage treatment works. The impressive building, designed by Stockdale Harrison, houses four compound beam engines built by a local firm, Gimson...

Farnham Colossi in Unger, West Virginia

July 26, 2021

A seven-acre parcel of farmland in Unger, West Virginia, is home to a small army of giants. Displayed around the property are more than 20 enormous fiberglass figures designed in the 1960s for roadside advertising. Although not all the figures are male (or even human), these “colossi” are known generically as “Muffler Men.” The figures are owned and displayed by George and Pam Farnham, who live on the property. Their bucolic homestead is called “Farnham’s Fantasy Farm.” In the...

Jardin Public de la Fonderie in Douai,...

July 26, 2021

Located near the city center and various popular squares, this very flowery and friendly garden gives visitors the opportunity to discover the remains of the old cannon foundry inherited by Louis XIV between 1669 and 1670. Inside are the remains of the La Furibonde, a cannon melted in Douai in 1744 by Jean-François Bérenger. Before Douai was invaded by Louis XIV in 1667, the area was home to the Castle of the Counts of Flanders. It was quickly converted...

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