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Bells of the Prairie in Elgin, Nebraska

July 21, 2021

In the front yard of a home in the picturesque town of Elgin, Nebraska is a treasury of more than 150 bells bought, collected, and curated over the course of decades. These bells ring out the story of the Great Plains, as they were formerly on church steeples and one-room schoolhouses just east of the Sand Hills of Nebraska. They rang out special occasions, emergencies, the start of church services and school days, and are firmly a part of...

The Legacy of a Civil Rights Icon's...

July 21, 2021

Adrian Miller, the author of Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue, remembers how for his family, holidays like Juneteenth always meant celebrating with food. “We went to the public celebrations in the Five Points neighborhood, Denver’s historic Black neighborhood. At those events, the celebrated foods were barbecue, usually pork spareribs, giant smoked turkey legs, watermelon, and red-colored drinks.” To many Black Americans, barbecue and soul food mean victory. Cooking techniques passed down for generations speak...

Casa Reforma in Guadalajara, Mexico

July 21, 2021

Reforma #369 house often goes unnoticed when seen from the outside, but just knock on the door to enter a hidden cultural center dedicated to the world of puppets. The story begins when the building began a restoration. On one of its patios, one of the seven wells known to have been located in Guadalajara around the 16th century was found. Another discovery was made: an arch that had been hidden by a wall. According to some experts, these...

When Americans Dreamed of Kitchen Computers

July 21, 2021

Who is making dinner? This is a question many American families find themselves asking daily. It’s not a new question, either. Generations have debated the delegation of kitchen duties, often touching on class, race, and especially gender. Most frequently, women have taken on home cooking, which often means hard work for little or no pay. Proposed solutions have ranged from equitable sharing of household labor between all family members, buying pre-made foods, and even kitchen-less homes and communal cooking....

Alexandria Tide Lock Park in Alexandria, Virginia

July 21, 2021

With growing settlement east of the Appalachian Mountains and into the Ohio Valley, a rapidly expanding United States needed better and more efficient ways to transport raw goods to the business centers on the Atlantic and finished goods to the growing frontier. Canal works sprung up where feasible, most notably the Erie Canal from Albany, New York to Buffalo, and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal from the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D.C. to Cumberland, Maryland. Alexandria city merchants, sensing...

Blagaj's Dervish Monastery in Blagaj, Bosnia and...

July 21, 2021

Only a short distance from Mostar, the monastery in Blagaj stuns visitors with its exquisite natural setting. The modest, Ottoman-era building sits at the base of an enormous cliff, where the Buna river seeps out from a mysterious cave and over a small crescent waterfall as it courses towards the larger Neretva. The water flowing by the monastery is a stunning hue of blue and is said to contain mystic properties. The monastery itself was built in 1520 by...

Preserved Victorian Wedding Cake in Hampshire, England

July 21, 2021

It is rare that a wedding cake survives the wedding itself, but an elaborate four-tiered wedding cake has remained uncut since it was made in 1898. The confection was made soon after Charles H. Philpott and his wife opened their family bakery—C.H. Philpott, Baker and Confectioner—in Basingstoke. For 66 years after the bakery’s opening, the Philpotts displayed the cake in the shop window, before moving it to their home in 1964 after the bakery closed. In 1995, almost a century...

Hadrian’s Gate in Kemer, Turkey

July 21, 2021

Hadrian’s Gate was built in 130 CE. A wall was subsequently built around the city’s old quarters (Kaleiçi) and the gate was incorporated into the design. Hadrian’s Gate can be classified as the typical Roman triumphal gate, with three archways of identical size. The total height of the gate is 26 feet (8 meters) and is composed of marble and granite. The two façades of the gate have four columns each. Floral decorations adorn the gate and stylized heads...

Meet the Storm-Chasing Photographer Who Can Also...

July 21, 2021

Photographs of spectacular storms have been around for a while, but in this age of increasingly extreme weather, they can capture the fury of nature perfectly. For storm chaser, photographer, and Emmy-winning videographer Mike Olbinski, they have been a lifelong passion and started, quite literally, with a lightning bolt. Since discovering just over a decade ago that he could chase storms instead of waiting for them to come to the edge of his Arizona neighborhood, he has found his...

Utica Mills Covered Bridge in Thurmont, Maryland

July 21, 2021

The oldest of the three covered bridges in Frederick County, Maryland dates back to 1843, at which time it initially spanned the Monocacy River. In its first life as a 250-foot two-span bridge, it was known as the Devilbiss Road Covered Bridge. This bridge was washed out by the Johnstown Flood in 1889. Two years later, the remaining half of the bridge was rebuilt at its present location over Fishing Creek and renamed Utica Mills Covered Bridge. Despite more...

The Triadelphia Bell in Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland

July 21, 2021

The city of Triadelphia was founded in 1809 by three brothers-in-law who were married to the Brooke sisters (daughters of Robert Brooke, founder of Brooksville). From its inception until its dire demise by a deluge, Triadelphia grew to become an industrial powerhouse rivaling nearby Rockville in size. Powered by the mighty Patuxent River, cotton, grist, saw, and plaster mills churned out all types of products. In 1868, a flood destroyed almost all of the mills in Triadelphia along with...

Podcast: Kilwa Kisiwani

July 21, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we dig through more than 1,000 years of dirt, history, colonialism, and myth on the Swahili Coast of East Africa with Atlas Obscura Editorial Director Samir Patel. 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...

Murals of Hellissandur in Hellissandur, Iceland

July 20, 2021

Located on the tip of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula, about two hours north of Reykjavik, the village of Hellissandur has gained a reputation as the street art capital of Iceland. In the summer of 2019, a team of international artists including Camilo Arias, Ban Pesk, and Luis Rincon transformed an abandoned warehouse and several unadorned buildings into 30 large works of art. Most of the murals are in the vicinity of the abandoned warehouse, but a walk around town will reveal...

The Unmarked Grave of Christer Pettersson in...

July 20, 2021

A late February night in 1986 the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was fatally wounded by a gunshot at Sveavägen in downtown Stockholm. Ha and his wife, Lisbeth Palme, were walking home from a cinema when a lone gunman walked up to the couple, shot the prime minister in the back, and wounded Lisbeth with a second shot. Olof Palme died from his wounds with his wounded wife refusing to leave his side. It took almost three years, until...

The Story Behind Turkey's Pricey, Fairy-Tale Ghost...

July 20, 2021

Halfway between Istanbul and Ankara, in one of the most historic and beautiful parts of northwest Turkey, is a deep valley covered in dense pine forests and blessed with thermal springs. And in this valley is something that seems right out of a Disney movie: row upon row of identical, castle-like, turreted chateaus. When the occasional morning mist enshrouds the blue towers, it’s a dreamy scene, but when you look a little closer, something seems off. The roads between...

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