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General Braddock's Gravesite(s) in Farmington, Pennsylvania

July 16, 2021

In 1804, workers repairing a stretch of the old Braddock Road uncovered human remains buried in the roadbed. The discovery was at Great Meadows near what is now Farmington, Pennsylvania. Among the remains, they found buttons from the uniform of a high-ranking British military officer, which helped to identify the body as that of Major General Edward Braddock. The burial site was near the location where Braddock reportedly died from wounds suffered during the Battle of the Monongahela. In...

Rome’s Accidental Lake Is an Urban Refuge...

July 16, 2021

The story of Rome’s unlikeliest lake begins with fake maps, an angry community, and a patch of very dry land. In the 1990s, at a construction site just a couple miles east of the storied Colosseum, a crew was digging into the ground, excavating the site of a planned underground parking lot. It was part of a grand development project to turn a sprawling old textile factory, squeezed between train tracks and the busy Via Prenestina, into a massive,...

Phu Phra Bat Historical Park in Tambon...

July 16, 2021

Millions of years ago, this park was part of the ocean floor. Once it dried up, erosion continued what water had probably already started: eating away the sandstone underneath massive boulders. This has resulted in massive boulders impossibly balanced on top of small sandstone protrusions. It is not hard to see why thousands of years ago, humans were attracted to the mystic that shrouds this place. Between three and four thousand years ago, humans started drawing geometric patterns, animal...

Rheinsberg Nuclear Power Plant in Rheinsberg, Germany

July 16, 2021

The Rheinsberg Nuclear Power Plant (in German: Kernkraftwerk Rheinsberg or ‘KKW Rheinsberg’) was commissioned in 1956 as East Germany‘s first commercial nuclear reactor, using Soviet technology and designed through cooperation between East German and Soviet engineers. The nuclear plant was intentionally hidden deep in the Brandenburg forest in an area chosen for its low population density. The exact location of the plant, and the existence of the railway leading to it, was kept a tight secret. Nearing the end...

Monumento a el Enano (Monument to the...

July 16, 2021

La Palma is one of the more rural Canary islands, home to beautiful nature and massive telescopes. It is visited with a lesser frequency than other islands in the archipelago and as a result, many local traditions are strong and mostly unchanged to fit tourists. The largest of these celebrations is La Bajada de la Virgen de las Nieves, or the “Descent of the Virgin of the Snows,” celebrated once every five years. Outside of this narrow time slot, the...

Porcupine Flat Gold Dredge and Dragline in...

July 16, 2021

Located on a country road near to the town of Maldon in rural Victoria stands the Porcupine Flat gold dredge and dragline. Despite being easily accessible, this site is not well-known to tourists. It consists of two very large, rusting structures from bygone years. Work on the site started in 1958 when it was discovered that there was a source of gold in Porcupine Creek. The owner of the mine brought in some heavy equipment to help with their...

Pinara in Turkey

July 16, 2021

A veil of mystery surrounds the ancient settlement of Pinara. There are rare mentions of this location in recorded history. One of the most reliable ones is that of Manecrates, a Lycian historian from the 4th century B.C., who reported that the town of Xanthos was experiencing overpopulation, and three settlements were under construction to help alleviate the problem. Another documented mention of Pinara relates that it fell to Alexander the Great in in 334 B.C. What is special about...

Indian Pueblo Kitchen in Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 16, 2021

In 1976, the 19 tribes that make up New Mexico’s Pueblo population gathered to open Albuquerque’s Indian Pueblo Cultural Center on a patch of Native American land in the center of the city. This serene complex of stucco buildings is an important arena for the preservation of Native American crafts, music, and ceremonies. It’s also a place where all-too-rare pre-Columbian cuisine is sustained and celebrated, on the menu at Pueblo Indian Kitchen. The year 1492—when Christopher Columbus arrived in the...

Stadshuskällaren in Stockholm, Sweden

July 16, 2021

Not many people get to attend the yearly Nobel banquets, as that’s reserved for geniuses, humanitarians, and Swedish nobility. But if your invitation got lost in the mail, never fear. With a chunk of change, you, too, can feast like a Nobel prizewinner in the cellars of Stockholm’s City Hall. The Stadshuskällaren, or the City Hall Cellars, is unique in more than just its location. City Hall is the venue for the Nobel banquet, and its restaurant offers the...

Meet the Italian Brothers Who Grew the...

July 15, 2021

This summer, Guinness World Records enshrined a monster cherry as the heaviest ever recorded. A Carmen cherry, harvested by brothers Giuseppe and Alberto Rosso, clocked in at 33 grams, or 1.16 ounces, with a circumference of around 5 inches. This might still seem minuscule, but the winning fruit was as large as an apricot. According to the brothers, this isn’t the first time they’ve grown some of the world’s largest cherries. At their farm, Cascina Canape, in the Piedmont...

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University...

July 15, 2021

Inside this historical house on a hilltop in Charlottesville, Virginia, visitors are transported to Australia and engulfed by Indigenous culture in the form of artwork that surprises, challenges, and inspires. The Kluge-Ruhe is the only museum outside of Australia dedicated to works of art created by Indigenous artists from across Australia. While the culture is known as the oldest continuous culture in the world, the artwork inside is fresh and contemporary. They often address current issues facing Indigenous cultures...

Seeing the Pandemic Through the Shuttered Bungalows...

July 15, 2021

Just down the road from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, a row of boarded-up Craftsman-style bungalows marches down to a shallow green ravine, flanked by large, empty dormitory buildings. Along narrow walking paths, memorial plaques pay tribute to long-forgotten Angelenos who spent years of their lives at this place. The bowl-like ravine holds one of the best-preserved sanatoriums west of the Mississippi. Founded in 1902 as a haven for people with tuberculosis (TB), Barlow Sanatorium flirted with irrelevance by...

Haga Courthouse Giant's Kettle in Hagalund, Sweden

July 15, 2021

Giant’s kettles are formed when rocks swirl in currents under a glacier against a bedrock surface. Over time, this erodes the surface and carves a hole in the rock, ultimately forming the deep cavities known as giant’s kettles. This is what happened in Sweden and northern Europe during the last ice age that ended about 10,000 B.C. The massive ice that once covered Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia (three to four kilometers thick) has affected the geology of...

John W. Bowser's Empire State Building Grave...

July 15, 2021

John W. Bowser was born in present-day Aurora, Ontario in 1892 and in the coming years worked on many construction jobs in and around Toronto, most notably the Royal Ontario Museum and the Bank of Toronto building. Although those were minor roles, it was overall a good start to his career. Sometime around 1930, he headed to New York to start work as the project construction superintendent for the famous Empire State Building, an important title. After completing the...

'Molecule Men' in Berlin, Germany

July 15, 2021

This striking metal sculpture, created by American sculptor Jonathan Borofsky in 1999 is an iconic sight for those who pass by the banks of the Spree River. Situated in the middle of the river and at a height of almost 100 feet (30 meters), this work of art symbolizes the point where the three Berlin neighborhoods Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, and Treptow meet. For a city that was previously divided into East and West by the Spree River, this aluminum sculpture...

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