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Memorial to the Featherstone Massacre in Featherstone,...

June 17, 2021

In 1893, a fall in the price of coal led to pit owners reducing the wages of employees. The newly founded Miners Federation called their members on strike, and all over the country, 250,000 members stood against the owners to demand a living wage. The town of Featherstone had two pits at the time, Featherstone Main and Ackton Hall. Using their stockpiles of coal, the mine owner took on the strike, locking out the miners and leaving them with...

Victoria Theatre in Newcastle, Australia

June 17, 2021

Originally built in 1876, Newcastle’s heritage-listed Victoria Theatre was rebuilt in 1890 and for decades has been shuttered and the subject of mystery and rumours. With a capacity of around 1500 people, the Victoria Theatre was once a professional, state-of-the-art, nationally important theatre that rivalled any in Australia‘s capital cities. Despite being well over 100 years old, the Victoria Theatre hosted the cutting-edge technology of its day including a massive fly-tower for set and scenery management, a solid fire curtain...

The Chef Fighting Mass Incarceration With Food

June 17, 2021

To celebrate Juneteenth this week, Gastro Obscura and guest editor Michael Twitty are sharing stories of food and liberation in Black history. “Food is the ultimate conduit for bringing people together,” says chef Kurt Evans. After 13 years working at catering companies and restaurants, he decided to apply this culinary power to a mission: fighting against the injustice of mass incarceration. It’s always top-of-mind and he’ll let you know how he feels: You might spot him in his black...

Musciattino's Hand in Prato, Italy

June 17, 2021

Saint Stephen’s Cathedral is the primary Catholic place of worship of Prato, a manufacturing city not far from Florence that is known for its wool industry. The cathedral is mainly known for being the place where one of the most important Marian relics is guarded: the Holy Girdle (Sacro Cingolo in Italian). According to Catholic tradition, this simple belt belonged to the Virgin Mary and was given to Saint Thomas during her assumption into Heaven. While walking through Cathedral...

Robert Smalls Memorial in Charleston, South Carolina

June 17, 2021

If you’re passing along Waterfront Park in Charleston, you may spy something poking up from behind a row of bushes. Closer inspection reveals it to be a tribute to Robert Smalls, whose incredible story the city honored in May of 2012 with a two-day observance and the placement of an additional historical marker on the Battery. For those unfamiliar with the story, it entails an extraordinary feat of wit and courage. Smalls was born into slavery in Beaufort, South...

Prince Road Container House in St. Augustine,...

June 17, 2021

After Hurricane Irma uprooted a massive oak tree that destroyed the house that stood at 1369 Prince Road, the owner, a former art gallery owner and visual artist, embarked on what became a nearly three-year journey to build a new house out of shipping containers. Designed by owner and Gainesville architect Stephen Bender, the house was constructed out of nine containers, six of which are living spaces with two for a workshop/garage and a tilted container. As a former...

Hillsborough Barracks in Sheffield, England

June 17, 2021

The Hillsborough Barracks just north of Sheffield has been redeveloped into a building with several enterprises including a supermarket, hotel, and a college facilities. However, this location was once considered the finest purpose-built military barracks in the country. The sympathetic redevelopment has left much to see of this magnificent mid-19th-century complex. The developers have installed a useful series of colorful metal plaques to help visitor orientation. The supermarket is remarkable, having been created by fitting a roof over the...

Wooden Bridges of Bhaderwa in Bhaderwah, India

June 17, 2021

Walking on a wooden Bridge in Bhaderwah, with bewitching views of the majestic Himalayas, is an otherworldly experience. The rustic charm of these bridges is rooted in the religious belief that they are actually pathways for a soul’s journey to heaven. Bhaderwah, a remote Indian tourist destination also known as “mini-Kashmir” for its landscape vistas is surrounded by unparalleled snowclad mountains, singing rivulets, along with plum, apple, and peach orchards. Amid this glorious spectacle lie hundreds of old and...

Boathouses of Ine in Ine, Japan

June 17, 2021

The historic capital of Japan from 794 to 1869, Kyoto is widely known for its beautiful scenery. Not many visitors travel north of the prefecture, however, where it opens to Wakasa Bay and the Sea of Japan. Here also lies a smaller inlet called Ine Bay, as well as a fishing settlement of the same name. This town is notable for its status as a nationally-classified Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, and it’s quite easy to see the reason...

John Burroughs Woodchuck Lodge in Roxbury, New...

June 17, 2021

Constructed in the 1860s, the Woodchuck Lodge was the summer retreat for naturalist and famed essayist John Burroughs. This rustic building in New York‘s Catskill Mountains served as Burroughs’s dwelling for much of his literary career and played host to many celebrities of the time, including Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and Henry Ford. Burroughs was born and raised on his family’s homestead in Roxbury, New York. He was a fast learner, and by age 17, he was a schoolteacher...

Podcast: Women of the Black Panther Mural

June 17, 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 30-foot tall mural on the side of a house in West Oakland, California, which is teaching an often left out part of the history of the Black Panther Party: the women who fueled the movement. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you...

The Uncertain Future of Finland's Rare Freshwater...

June 16, 2021

In the winter of 1979, 22-year-old dairy farmer Juha Taskinen went ice fishing with his friend, Mikko Sairanen, on southeastern Finland’s sprawling, serpentine Lake Saimaa. Between nibbles, Sairanen told Taskinen of his chance sighting the previous summer of a rare Saimaa ringed seal, sunning itself on a rock. Taskinen asked to be taken to the same location, when the weather warmed, to see the norppa, one of the world’s few freshwater seals, at the time seldom seen and rarely...

Grave of Don Featherstone in Berlin, Massachusetts

June 16, 2021

Don Featherstone graduated from Worcester Art Museum’s art school in 1957 and began working for Union Products, Inc. in Leominster, Massachusetts designing 3D plastic animals. Over his 43-year career, Featherstone created over 750 different plastic lawn ornaments—but none were as popular as the pink flamingo. The pink flamingo was first released in 1957, and immediately caught on due to the popularity of the color pink and the flamingo’s promise of an endless summer. As live flamingos were not readily...

Cinémathèque Française in Paris, France

June 16, 2021

As befits the city where the first movies were projected, the Cinémathèque Française is one of Paris’ several film-focused destinations. Established in 1936, the organization dedicates itself to the conservation of film reels, cameras, props, costumes, and memorabilia. But visitors don’t have to be film buffs to appreciate its Frank Gehry-designed headquarters. Although it seems to have been designed with movies in mind, the building was originally created for the American Center in Paris, a now-defunct hub dedicated to...

Equestrian Statue of the Duke of Wellington...

June 16, 2021

Measuring 30 feet tall, this statue of the First Duke of Wellington stands out in the Hampshire town of Aldershot. If its size makes it seem out of place, that’s because it is. The massive statue originally stood upon a large arch in London, but public disapproval led it to be moved to a new location. Erected in the 19th century to honor the First Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, this sculpture was intended to stand upon the Wellington...

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