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Colvin Run Mill and General Store in...

June 16, 2021

Colvin Run Mill was constructed sometime around 1811, just off of Leesburg Pike. The mill itself is in pristine shape thanks to the efforts of the Fairfax County Park Authority to faithfully reproduce the building, waterwheel, mill race, and other supporting mechanisms using methods and materials similar to the original design. Brick was used to replace the wood that had been used to repair the original wall on the waterwheel side of the mill. Putlog holes were included as...

'Women of the Black Panther Party' in...

June 16, 2021

In the heart of West Oakland, at the intersection of Center and 9th streets stands a striking mural of a group of women—one clutches a rifle, another raises her fist in protest. At the bottom left corner of this beautiful art display, a woman smiles at a young, his black beret slightly tilted to the right. These are the women of the Black Panther Party. Unbeknownst to most, at the height of the Black Panther Party, over 60 percent of...

Hemingway-Pfeiffer House in Piggott, Arkansas

June 16, 2021

When Ernest Hemingway left Paris with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, they eventually went to the home of her parents, Paul and Mary Pfeiffer in Piggott, Arkansas. Hemingway was gaining fame as a writer during this time. A large portion of “A Farewell to Arms” was written at the house and the premiere of the movie version was held in Piggott in 1932. The Pfeiffers had a writing studio designed for Hemingway in their carriage house. The couple spent a...

Ashmore Valero in McAlester, Oklahoma

June 16, 2021

Inside a gas station on the side of the highway in land-locked Oklahoma, you might be surprised to be greeted by a boat. A dinghy, in fact. A dinghy once owned by legendary actor Errol Flynn, who is best known for playing Robin Hood and for his on-screen romances with actress Olivia de Havilland. According to a newspaper article laminated and posted on the boat, the gas station’s owner, Tony Ashmore, purchased the dinghy from Sierra Boats in Lake...

Welcome to Nomehenge, Home to Alaska's Soviet-Era...

June 16, 2021

In the past, when Howard Farley Sr. would go fishing for king crab, he’d point the bow of his vessel towards the rough and icy waters of the Norton Sound. State mandates require that he and other Nome, Alaska, crabbers travel at least 15 miles from their town’s shore to drop their pots, but as the number of successful crustacean catches dwindled in recent years, they’d often go farther and farther afield. Farley could track his distance from home...

Jägala Waterfall in Koogi, Estonia

June 16, 2021

This unique water feature is one of the highlights of the Harju County of northern Estonia. At more than 50 meters wide, it is the widest natural waterfall in the whole country and the river below eventually carries on its course to the Gulf of Finland. With its flat wide rocky crest, Jägala Waterfall has a rather unusual shape, which attracts visitors to the area. The flow of water is used downstream to power the Jägala hydroelectric power station (Linnamäen...

Podcast: La Paz Cebritas

June 16, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, in the busy, traffic-packed capital city of Bolivia, we meet the zebras who keep the streets of La Paz safe for its citizens. 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 and hear...

Introducing Gastro Obscura's Juneteenth Series

June 15, 2021

I feel like the transitional month of June is everything for African Americans that February is not. June provides warm weather and two more days of quality time. June is National Black Music Month. June is National Soul Food Month. And, after the 2020 awakening of the revolutionary spirit, centered in Black joy, there is the refreshed expanded celebration of Juneteenth. As we recover from the pandemic, the week leading to and the weekend of Juneteenth 2021 is an...

The Civil Rights Icon Who Saw Freedom...

June 15, 2021

When she was 13, Fannie Lou Hamer came across a scene of death and destruction. It never left her mind. A stranger had snuck onto her family’s property in Sunflower County, Mississippi, one evening as the Great Depression loomed over America. He poured a gallon of Paris green, an arsenic-laced insecticide, into the feeding troughs of their livestock, poisoning them until their stomachs swelled. Some of the animals were dead by the time Hamer returned home. Others perished soon...

Mushroom House of Bethesda in Bethesda, Maryland

June 15, 2021

Located just across the border from Washington, D.C., the town of Bethesda, Maryland is a fairly well-to-do suburb and one of the last places one might expect to find a fantastical novelty house. But that is precisely what sits on Allan Road, just off of Western Avenue. Eye-catching, to say the least, this strange residence was given its curvy configuration in the late 1960s. Architect Roy Mason, known for his futuristic Xanadu Houses, was hired by owners Edward and...

Bainbridge Island Frog Rock in Bainbridge Island,...

June 15, 2021

June 7, 1971, marked the birth of an island icon. One rainy night after their graduation ceremony, two young people went out to fulfill their part in a local tradition known as “Paint Night.” A rock formation at the corner of Madison and Phelps Road had long been subjected to various graffiti, but Bob Green and Linda Barnes decided it looked like a frog and proceeded to paint it that way. The rocks are technically a glacial erratic, a...

Newkirk Plaza Mural and Mosaic in Brooklyn,...

June 15, 2021

In Brooklyn, a piece of public art covers the walls of a passageway that leads from Marlborough Road to Newkirk Plaza station on the B and Q lines. Until the large mural and mosaic were added in 2012, it was just a dirty and neglected tunnel. The two works of art are united by the theme of flying machines. The mosaic was designed by Juan Carlos Pinto of the Brooklyn Recycle Project, and features materials (broken china pieces, dominoes,...

Liberia House Historic Site in Manassas, Virginia

June 15, 2021

Constructed by Harriett Bladen Mitchell Weir and her husband William James Weir in 1825, the Liberia house was a plantation house. Across the property grew various vegetables and grain crops, as well as space for sheep, horses, cattle, and hogs. In the years leading up to the Civil War, it was considered one of the largest plantations in western Prince William County. The property was also home to some 90 enslaved people. The winds of change blew hard through...

Big Chute Marine Railway in Coldwater, Ontario

June 15, 2021

When driving along Upper Big Chute Road in Ontario, you’ll come across something unusual. At what looks like a railroad crossing, the tracks disappear into the water. The crossing is still in operation, so what’s happening? Originally, there were plans to build a lock to transport boats from the Severn River to Georgian Bay (and vice versa). However, this was during the First World War, so there weren’t enough workers to build a full and proper lock. Instead, a...

In Iceland, Glacial Meltwater Creates a Stunning...

June 15, 2021

This undulating, ghostly landscape of dead trees rooted in sand dunes might bring to mind the surrealist art of Salvador Dalí or the always striking Namib Desert, but it’s actually a zoomed-in view—just a few yards across—of an Icelandic glacier’s meltwater, illustrating a geological process seldom captured in such mesmerizing, dynamic detail. Glaciers sometimes grow tongues: long, narrow ice streams that extend downhill, usually toward a body of water. These formations can be unstable, and are more prone to...

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