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Missiri Mosque in Fréjus, France

May 24, 2021

During the colonial era, a training center was set up in Fréjus to accommodate soldiers from Asia and Africa. The idea of recreating a missiri, a type of religious temple, was an initiative of Captain Abdel Kader Mademba in 1928. Senegalese snipers crafted this replica but unlike the original designed with mud, this one was made of concrete and covered with provençal ochre, a local dye. Completed in 1930, the building served as a place of worship, today it’s an amazing...

Houses of the Sun in Latvia

May 24, 2021

Traveling out to Cape Kolka, near the very tip of Latvia‘s western peninsula, feels like journeying to the edges of Europe. The park is a little over a mile (2 kilometers) walk from the small village of Kolka. For those who enjoy a bit of isolation, the Houses of the Sun of Cape Kolka offers an opportunity to sleep right on the beach. The barrels are located within the national park on the western beach of Cape Kolka, providing...

Podcast: Spite Houses

May 24, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we’re surveying a special kind of architecture that is both petty and personal. After all, home is where the grudge is. 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 their stories....

It's Hard Work to Restore Rio's Christ...

May 21, 2021

Lately, from the ground far below, Rio’s famed Christ the Redeemer statue appears to be cupping tiny people in its mighty hand. It’s no miracle, unless you consider the restoration of the iconic monument more than 2,000 feet above the city a miracle. And it kind of is. As a boy growing up in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro’s sister city, on the opposite side of Guanabara Bay, Alexsandro Brauna looked out over the water and gawked at the statue,...

Secrets of England’s Champion Birdman

May 21, 2021

Hang-gliding instructor Ron Freeman stands tentatively at the edge of a pier on England’s south coast, assessing the wind speed. It’s warm with a slight breeze, the perfect conditions for the day’s International Birdman rally. His mind, body, and glider (the Geordie Flyer) are ready. Now, all that stands between Freeman and the £10,000 prize is 100 meters (roughly 330 feet) of the English Channel. The International Birdman has been a stalwart of a smattering of British seaside summers...

A Cooking Competition in the Pacific Islands...

May 20, 2021

Judges on cooking competition shows tend to be culinary royalty. Rarely, though, are they actual royalty. When Princess Salote Mafile’o Pilolevu Tuita of the Kingdom of Tonga swept onto the stage during the season finale of Pacific Island Food Revolution, several of the contestants looked ready to faint. But participants in PIFR aren’t called “contestants.” Instead, host Robert Oliver refers to the competitors, hailing from the Pacific Islands of Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, and the Kingdom of Tonga, as “food...

The Ice Age Persists in the Upper...

May 20, 2021

A black Ford pickup truck speeds past on the gravel road, kicking up a wave of dust. Tim Yager shakes his head slightly and gestures to the forested hill behind us. “Most people have no idea this is here,” he says with a smile. Yager, deputy manager for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, is going to take me back in time. He leads the way along a backroad in this...

Podcast: Wonders in Your Backyard

May 18, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we hear from you, our listeners, about the strange and wondrous places in your towns, such as the world’s largest tin soldier, the home of the first public beach, and a phone connecting us to people we’ve lost. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you...

The Collectors Who Hunt Down Radioactive Glassware

May 17, 2021

In January of 2021, a New Jersey teenager brought a piece of an antique Fiestaware plate to a high-school science class. The student had received a Geiger counter, an instrument used to measure radiation, for Christmas, and wanted to do an experiment. When the plate registered as radioactive, someone at the school panicked and called in a hazmat team. The entire school was evacuated, and those in the nuclear science field were aghast. But thousands of similarly radioactive plates...

Dixie Flyer Crash in Ballum, Netherlands

May 17, 2021

On September 12, 1944 a B-24 liberator called the “Dixie Flyer” crashed 500 meters south of this location in the Netherlands. At the time there were nine crew members on board. Five of the crew members survived the crash, while the other four died on impact. They were buried in the graveyard of Nes. On November 10, 2001, Lt. Kenneth E, “Sam” Webster, the captain of the Dixie Flyer, unveiled this monument as a reminder of his fallen crew members...

'Evropska Unija' in Belgrade, Serbia

May 17, 2021

Although Serbia is not yet a member of European Union, its capital city of Belgrade can boast the weirdest statue dedicated to the EU. Sculptor Dragan Radenović made this statue of a goat in boots with Coca-Cola bottles instead of udders. As he says, it represents the European Union (Evropska Unija) as a goat, but with a weird background story—some people with sick sexual fantasies put goats in boots, so that they could be higher, and in this case...

Harnessing the Dystopian Dread of the Brutalist...

May 17, 2021

This story is excerpted and adapted from Phyllis Richardson’s House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life, published in May 2021 by Unbound. Housing in postwar Britain was anything but romantic. The necessity of building, and quickly, shelter to replace the 100,000 houses destroyed by the Blitz in London alone, meant there was little room for romance. Coming to England as a teenager in 1946, after having been raised in the Shanghai International...

Fort Belle Fontaine in St. Louis, Missouri

May 17, 2021

Once known to weary westbound pioneers as a must-stop destination, Fort Belle Fontaine was built immediately after the Louisiana Purchase was signed to protect the newly prominent gateway to the west, St. Louis. Today, Fort Belle Fontaine is a hidden gem county park nestled along the muddy banks of the Missouri River. The ruins are not the original wooden encampment, which rotted away over a century ago. Instead, these limestone structures, outbuildings, stone fireplaces, and bathhouses were added much...

'Mètre à Ruban' in Nantes, France

May 17, 2021

If you want to see everyday life things in their full brilliance, you might be interested in the work of the French artist Lilian Bourgeat, who creates oversized copies of simple objects. One of Bourgeat’s works is hidden in a little courtyard of a construction company on the isle of Nantes. A massive measuring tape in a classic bright yellow hue, the installation is titled simply “Mètre à Ruban” (“Measuring Tape”). The measuring tape is actually a replica of the...

Juan Ponce de León Landing Park in...

May 17, 2021

By the time he became the first European credited with setting foot in “La Florida” in 1513, Juan Ponce de León had been a successful conquistador roaming the New World for 20 years. He was a companion to Christopher Columbus on the second voyage in 1493, the first governor of Puerto Rico, and an avid explorer of the Caribbean. But for all that is known and written about his numerous exploits, historians still argue over where exactly he first...

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