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'Bruin' in Dundee, Scotland

July 26, 2021

The maritime city of Dundee has its fair share of statues depicting its illustrious character. These metal monuments often pay homage to historical figures such as Queen Victoria and Robert Burns in front of the McManus Art Gallery and Museum. There are also fictitious renderings of the city’s illustrative output, like the Lemmings Statue and various characters from the Beano Comics. But it is the statue of a polar bear chasing a terrified man on High Street that might raise a...

Loy's Station Covered Bridge in Rocky Ridge,...

July 26, 2021

Named for an old rail station, this bridge was originally a single span but now features a pier at the midpoint. The bridge was constructed using a multiple kingpost design. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. This bridge has taken a beating over the years. In 1991, an arsonist attempting to file a fraudulent insurance claim against the bridge parked a truck inside of it and set it ablaze. A huge outpouring of...

World War I Training Trenches in Edinburgh,...

July 26, 2021

Located not far from the village of Colinton and next to the Dreghorn Barracks lies one of Edinburgh‘s many open green spaces, the Dreghorn Woods. The area is lush with coniferous trees and the air is filled with the sounds of various birds. What makes this particular forest so unique is that hidden on either side of the Braid Burn River are the remains of training facilities from World War I. These earth worn ditches are an exceptional example...

Women in Northern Kenya Rally to Save...

July 26, 2021

This story was originally published in Yale Environment 360 and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Like their Samburu ancestors going back to the 15th century, Pamela Lonolngenje’s family has been literally on the move for hundreds of years. One of around a half-dozen semi-nomadic tribes in the vast drylands of northern Kenya, the family spent years shifting locations to find water and grazing land for their goats and cattle, their primary source of income. Yet...

Podcast: The Family Tree

July 26, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, a listener’s voicemail sends us searching for the story of a very special—and giant—oak tree Peoria, Illinois, and the family of arborists who cared for it. 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...

'The Brave Righetto' in Rome, Italy

July 24, 2021

The Janiculum has become a memorial park dedicated to the legacy of the Roman Republic, a short-lived republican government that took over the city of Rome from the Papacy in the years of the Italian Risorgimento. This led to the unification of the country in 1861. Since 1849, this hill has been adorned with several busts and equestrian monuments. Among the great Italian and foreign names who spilled blood for the republican cause, a small monument celebrates the tragic...

Tasmanian Devil Unzoo in Taranna, Australia

July 23, 2021

The Tasmanian Devil Unzoo is the first of its kind in the world: a zoo with no boundary walls or enclosures, allowing its animals to roam freely and come and go as they please. Owned and operated by the Hamilton family since 1979, the attraction was originally called the Tasmanian Devil Park and ran as a conventional zoo, featuring several orphaned Tasmanian devil pups as the main attraction. By the early 2000s, the devil facial tumor disease—an incurable transmissible cancer...

Students Are Getting Paid to Poop at...

July 23, 2021

Flush an average toilet, and you’ll hear a wet woosh, as if someone is dumping a pot of water on the ground. Flush one of three toilets in a science building at South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, and it will sound a lot different—just a tiny trickle of water, nearly drowned out by whirring. “We use a vacuum,” explained Jaeweon Cho, the mastermind of the toilets and an environmental engineer at the university, in a...

Bottomless Lakes State Park in Roswell, New...

July 23, 2021

Despite their name, the bodies of water in New Mexico‘s Bottomless Lake State Park are neither bottomless nor lakes. The park is home to nine sinkhole-formed lakes, otherwise known as cenotes. These cenotes were made from limestone caves that eventually collapsed due to erosion from the Pecos River leaving what we see today. While they do have bottoms, they are located far beneath the surface—the deepest comes in at about 90 feet. The name “Bottomless Lakes” comes from a...

Watergate Fountain in Washington, D.C.

July 23, 2021

Designed by Italian architect Luigi Moretti with input from Hungarian-born developer Nicholas Salgo, this fountain was constructed between 1964-1971. The elaborate fountain in Watergate East, with its bidirectional, multi-tiered, oviform cascades of white—complete with a stoic, water-spewing lion, is a picture-perfect complement to the complex. Watergate East is the first of six buildings and the largest of the three residential buildings that make up the Watergate Complex. While the name Watergate typically conjures up visions of the break-in that...

For Italy's Musical Woods, Threats From Without...

July 23, 2021

At the edge of the road there is a heap of about 200 spruce logs, each approximately 30 feet long, all felled by a recent, severe winter storm. It’s late spring, but the wood is still covered with a dusting of snow. A middle-aged man on his knees, wearing hiking boots, jeans, and a waterproof jacket, is examining a section of one of the trunks, looking for mold or knots. He calls out to the operator of a crane,...

Grotte di Osimo in Osimo, Italy

July 23, 2021

Under the ancient city of Osimo lies a dense network of tunnels, passages, and underground environments dug at various levels. They are connected vertically to each other by wells or chimneys. The labyrinth of caves connects to a few notable palaces such as Palazzo Campana, Palazzo Riccioni, Palazzo Simonetti, and Palazzo Gallo. The 88 caves and a dozen narrow underground tunnels were most likely used as escape passages, food storage facilities, or for the passage of water. The mystery...

The Architect's Daughter at First United Methodist...

July 23, 2021

A local legend surrounds this church, constructed in 1891 in Boulder, Colorado. It is said that one of the stonemasons working the church suffered a terrible loss, when his young daughter Lula died before the completion of the church. Grief-stricken, he included a memorial to his late daughter, tucked away on the north side of one of the entryways to the church. As part of the stonework on the church, he carved an “angel face” as a memorial to...

Sifters Record Shop in Manchester, England

July 23, 2021

In 1977, a 29-year-old Pete Howard (now known as Mr. Sifters) opened his own record store using 700 of his own LPs. After multiple“punks,” as he called them, started coming into his store and causing mayhem amongst his collection, he moved Sifters from its original location in Burnage to Fog Lane in 1983, where it’s located to this day. The small record shop attracted a lot of attention from the locals of Manchester and started to become quite popular....

Sculptor's Cave in Duffus, Scotland

July 23, 2021

Sculptor’s Cave is located on a beach of the Moray Firth, near Covesea. Lying below the beachside cliffs, the cave is accessible via two separate passages. There is evidence that this cave was an important place of ritual practice in the past. Bronze Age artifacts and clay pottery have been found within the cave and more disturbingly, a large number of human remains, predominantly those of children. The derives its name from the Pictish carvings that decorate the walls...

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