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Gyeongju Seokbinggo in Gyeongju, South Korea

April 2, 2021

A small protrusion resembling the surrounding burial tumuli protrudes from the ground in a quiet corner of Wolseong Fortress. However, this one in particular had a very different purpose. Seokbinggo literally means “stone ice storage.” It is effectively an icebox made of stone and was the secret behind Korea’s ability to have ice in the middle of summer during the 1700s. This was a storage room where ice blocks cut from frozen lakes and rivers were taken during the...

Mercur Cemetery in West Mercur, Utah

April 2, 2021

Located 25 minutes west of Tooele, Utah, is the site of a former booming mining town that was full of life and promise. A distant memory of the Old West, Mercur became one of Utah’s first mining districts in 1893. At one point, the town was home to well over 5,000 people. However, in 1902 a fire ravaged the town and it never recovered. By 1913, the last mine closed. All that’s left are the memories of a town that...

Hotel Photography: Essential Tips for Making a...

April 2, 2021

Powerful hotel photography invites you to sink into that huge bed, sip from a cocktail or dive into the glistening water of the pool. Although such high-quality images require an investment, they will most definitely positively affect your brand perception, market share, and ultimately your rates and revenue. Selecting the Photographer The choice of photographer The post Hotel Photography: Essential Tips for Making a Visual Impact appeared first on Revfine.com.

Feast on These Recipes From America's National...

April 2, 2021

A visit to any one of the United States’ national parks will offer a feast for the senses, from the scent of wildflowers along the Great Smoky Mountains to the sound of a bird call bouncing off the walls of the Grand Canyon. But beyond postcard-perfect views and fresh air, the bounty of the land also lends itself to delicious food at restaurants inside the parks. Blackberries, which so plentifully grow in the Blue Ridge Mountains, star in Shenandoah...

The Colonial Tavern Dishing Up 18th-Century Vittles

April 1, 2021

In colonial America, a family might enjoy a Cheshire pork pie filled with pork tenderloin, apples, and spices. Another might enjoy a corncake, thanks to the maize long cultivated by Indigenous people. A wealthy family might indulge in a bird—but not just any bird, you see. A bird that had been plucked, cooked, and reassembled to sit in the center of the table. Dishes like these once appeared on the menu at King’s Arms Tavern, a “public house” that...

Why Researchers Dressed as Leopards to Scare...

April 1, 2021

It’s a tricky thing trying to pretend you’re a predator deep in the rainforest in northern Republic of the Congo. “It’s very humid, and sweat bees are all over you,” according to primatologist and conservation scientist Claudia Stephan. “Most of the time you see ahead for just a couple of meters due to dense vegetation,” she adds, via email from a remote site in the region’s Nouabelé-Ndoki National Park. The difficult work paid off, however. Using an ingenious, if...

Castel Meur in Plougrescant, France

April 1, 2021

Castel Meur, a small stone cottage in Plougrescant, France, was built in 1861 in a precarious position at the tip of the peninsula. At the time, construction was much less regulated and more riskily undertaken. To protect it from the frequently violent coastal weather, the house was positioned with its back to the sea and flanked on either side by two giant boulders. The unusually located cottage became known as the House Between Two Rocks. It has been passed down...

Victory Memorial to Soviet Army in...

April 1, 2021

Erected in 1985 to commemorate the Soviet Army’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, the Victory Memorial to Soviet Army is one of Riga’s most controversial monuments. The memorial complex dominates the park with its towering 249 foot (76 meters tall) obelisk. It is adorned with five golden stars that symbolize the five years of WWII. On either side of the obelisk are bronze statues of Mother Motherland and a band of three soldiers. The monument can...

Warsaw Pegasus Sculptures in Warsaw, Poland

April 1, 2021

These pegasus sculptures first appeared in Warsaw in August of 2008. Originally, they were set to be a temporary exhibit designed to celebrate the works of the Polish writer Zbigniew Herbert, however, their popularity led to them becoming a permanent fixture of the city’s landscape. The installation was part of the Norwid-Herbert Mediterranean inspirations exhibition, and the designs were chosen to pay tribute to Herbert’s piece titled “Pegasus.” Each one of the five colorful sculptures stands over 11 feet...

Paseo Yortuque in Chiclayo, Peru

April 1, 2021

Coastal Peru, rich in gold, silver and culture, was central to a number of pre-Columbian civilizations. Most of us are familiar with the Incas, but only because they were the dominant empire in the area when the Spanish invaded. The Inca empire itself lasted a little less than a hundred years and was predated, in part, by the more durable Moche (from the years 100 to 700) and Lambayeque (700 to 1375) cultures, which you can experience during this...

Tophet of Motya in Marsala, Italy

April 1, 2021

The city of Motya was a rich Phoenician colony located on a small island off the western coast of Sicily. It was one of the most important towns in the Mediterranean when it was controlled by Carthage during the 5th-century BCE. Motya was famously destroyed by troops from the Greek city-state of Syracuse during the Second Sicilian War in 398 BCE. Not much remained of the city and it was lost to history for centuries, that is until the...

Podcast: Kulning

April 1, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we learn about how, for centuries, herdswomen in Northern Sweden have lured cows home with haunting melodies. Read more about it. 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....

Carolina Raptor Center in Huntersville, North Carolina

April 1, 2021

In 1975, an injured broad-winged hawk found its way to Dr. Richard Brown, an ornithologist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Along with several biology students, Brown helped the bird back to health and released it into the wild—it would be the first of many rehabilitations. Over the years that followed, more and more birds were brought into the makeshift clinic in the basement of the university’s biology building. In 1980, Brown and Deb Sue Griffin, one...

The Clever Architectural Feature That Makes Life...

March 31, 2021

In 1609, the flagship of the Virginia Company, Sea Venture, was blown miserably off course by a brutal summer hurricane that wrecked the ship near a tiny island, some 700 miles off the Virginia coast. Fortunately, no lives were lost. Unfortunately, the island offered not a drop of fresh water. Today, that island is among the most densely populated countries on Earth, and it is still without a permanent body of fresh water. Oddly enough, visitors to Bermuda can...

The Risks and Rewards of the Remarkable...

March 31, 2021

In good years, fall and winter thunderstorms drench the deserts east of the Mediterranean. In early spring, the soil cracks in some places, the swelling signs of desert truffles below. An age-old harvest begins. In the Middle East, humans have foraged these unique mushrooms for millennia, scanning broken earth for protein-rich knobs to eat, sell, or use in medicine. They haven’t stopped of late, despite the threat of kidnappings and landmines. For some inhabitants of these deserts, the truffles...

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