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Cotton Tree in Freetown, Sierra Leone

June 15, 2021

The historic symbol of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, is a large kapok tree known as the “Cotton Tree.” According to legend, the tree gained importance in 1792 when a group of formerly enslaved people settled the site of what is now Freetown. After the American Revolution, the British granted freedom to the enslaved people who had fought with the Crown during the war. Some so-called “Black Loyalists” were given land and supplies to resettle in British-controlled Nova Scotia,...

Aldie Mill Historic Park in Aldie, Virginia

June 15, 2021

Rich in local history, the Aldie Mill Historic Park offers patrons a chance to step into the early 1800s and experience a taste of industrial life and culture from days of yore. Constructed between 1807-1809, the Gristmill boasts fully functional tandem metal waterwheels and docents demonstrate how grains were (and still are) ground into meal. In addition to impressive mill demonstrations, visitors can enter the miller’s chamber where former president and local legend James Monroe once marked time while...

Metropolis Ghost Town in Wells, Nevada

June 15, 2021

Metropolis is an unusual Nevada ghost town. The town was developed from an early 20th-century attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush lands near Wells. The town had largely dried up by the mid-1930s due to low agricultural prices and conflicts over water rights. In particular, a lawsuit from downstream water users in the Humboldt River drainage blocked using irrigation water from a local creek. All that remains of the once-bustling town are the ruins of the school and...

Diana's Punch Bowl in Round Mountain, Nevada

June 15, 2021

Diana’s Punch Bowl is a spectacular hot pool in a large travertine basin in the middle of Monitor Valley, northern Nye County, Nevada. Many natural wonders such as this would require entrance fees, contain interpretive stations, and would be very crowded; however, this site is open to all, only shut off by a barbed-wire gate. Quoted values of the pool’s temperature range from about 140 to 180 Fahrenheit (60-82 Celsius), cool enough for thermophilic algae. The whole depression is...

Progress Factory Mosaic in Lviv, Ukraine

June 15, 2021

This unique Soviet mosaic is located on one of the pavilions of the Progress shoe factory, which was built in the 1950s. The factory was one of the biggest in the Soviet Union. You are allowed to come inside the property and walk around—you can even feel the atmosphere of old times when the workers are coming back home from the working day.

Union Pond Mill in Manchester, Connecticut

June 15, 2021

Little history exists about this once-bustling mill. It’s believed the site was constructed during the early 1900s as a textile mill that used wool and paper, drawing its source of power from the Hockanum River. Unfortunately, while in operation, it began to pollute the nearby Union Pond and was forced to close. It was eventually purchased by the Boticello Corporation to be used as a recycling center. However, this plan did not last long and the facility once again...

Manassas Station in Manassas, Virginia

June 15, 2021

Singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Stephen Stills is best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. However, he has continued to record and release both collaborative and solo albums since 1968. In April 1972, Stills released the first of two albums with a band whose name can be traced back to Stills’s interest in the Civil War. Stills had the band flown into Manassas Station for a trip to Bull Run, where the...

Podcast: Museum of Quackery and Medical Fraud

June 15, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit what might be the world’s largest collection of fraudulent, nefarious, or otherwise ineffectual medical machinery—and meet the founder who brought it all together. 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...

How Singapore's 'Tree Doctors' Treat Their Giant...

June 14, 2021

On a sunny Monday morning in May, veteran arborist Eric Ong makes his rounds across the island of Singapore. Lean and tanned from years under the sun, Ong drives toward the city center. Along the way, before he’s even out of the car, Ong studies the canopies of green between the towers crowding out the sky in the city’s central business district, dominated by cool blue and gleaming grey. Ong is a custodian of the island’s trees, and his...

Mud Slough in Nixon, Nevada

June 14, 2021

The Truckee River flows out of Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada of California, and ends at Pyramid Lake in Nevada. For much of its length, it is paralleled by Interstate 80 with Reno, Nevada at about the halfway point. Before Euro-American settlers arrived in the mid-19th century, an overflow channel split off the Truckee before Pyramid Lake to fill a shallow lake, Winnemucca Lake, in the next valley to the east. It apparently supported a thriving waterfowl population....

'Venus & Cupid' in Morecambe, England

June 14, 2021

This sculpture created by the artist Shane A. Johnstone was first erected in 2005. Though it was initially met with disdain by locals, the statue has now become a beloved part of the Morecambe Promenade. It was erected to commemorate the 24 cockle pickers who lost their lives in a terrible incident in 2004. The piece is known as “Venus & Cupid”—and subtitled “Love, The Most Beautiful Of Absolute Disasters.” Facing out to sea over Morecambe Bay, it is...

Found: A Landlocked Message in a Bottle...

June 14, 2021

Many bottled messages start and end their lives on boats or shores—someone releases the stoppered dispatch into the water, and it drifts until it breaks or sinks or a lucky someone scoops it up. That’s how a sealed invitation to participate in a decades-old citizen science project swam around the Gulf of Mexico before washing up on Texas’s South Padre Island, and an amiable note sailed all the way from Bonn, Germany, to Auckland, New Zealand, after around seven...

Pu'u Kilea (Olowalu Petroglyphs) in Lahaina, Hawaii

June 14, 2021

Pu’u Kilea, also known as Olowalu Petroglyphs, is one of the easily accessible petroglyph sites on Maui. Access is a quarter-mile-long dirt trail. The petroglyphs are located along a basalt cliff in West Maui and feature human and animal figures as well as sails. The images at this site were chiseled into the rock hundreds of years ago. Ancient Hawaiians called them ki’i pohaku, or images in stone. Though the exact meanings of the carvings are unknown, the images are thought to...

Former Edenhall Hospital in Musselburgh, Scotland

June 14, 2021

Edenhall Hospital was based around the 1820 house known as Pinkieburn, home of the Lindsay family. In the late 1910s, during the First World War, Pinkieburn would be purchased to become the new home of the Edenhall Hostel for Limbless Soldiers and Sailors. The house itself, along with new extensions, would form the basis of the hospital. During World War II, the site would see further extensions with the construction of new huts. In 1953, Edenhall Hospital was transferred...

St. Cuthbert's Cave in Northumberland, England

June 14, 2021

This sandstone cave is formed from a large overhanging rock, which is supported by a single, natural rock pillar almost in the middle of the cave. The cave itself is large enough to provide shelter for a small group of people. According to the legend, this cave might have been among the many places where the monks escaping Danish invaders either took shelter while transporting their most holy relic (St. Cuthbert’s body) or where Cuthbert himself may have spent time living...

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