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Parliament Oak in Warsop, England

March 26, 2021

Most people associate the British parliament with the Palace of Westminster, the iconic home of the green benches and Big Ben. While the palace on the Thames has hosted parliaments since the 12th-century, it’s not an exclusive host. Long before the United Kingdom existed, medieval England was ruled as an absolute monarchy, and parliament was convened at the pleasure of the king in whatever location was convenient. During times of crisis led to parliament being convened in some unusual...

Maine North High School in Des Plaines,...

March 26, 2021

Open for just 11 years, Maine North High School shuttered permanently in 1981 due to low attendance. However, a few years later, it reopened its doors temporarily to a handful of students who collectively became known as The Breakfast Club. Because Maine North’s library was too small for filming purposes, John Hughes’s production team built the now-iconic library set in the school’s defunct gymnasium. Principal photography took place between March and May of 1984, utilizing the gymnasium, several hallways,...

Silver City Ghost Town in Bodfish, California

March 26, 2021

Just south of Lake Isabella in Bodfish, California sits a collection of old mining buildings arranged around a large courtyard. These ramshackle structures date as far back as the 1850s. They all hail from an era when gold fever struck the region. The towns all quickly became abandoned as gold deposits dried up. The various buildings were collected by the Dave and Arvilla Mills family and were relocated to this site. The ghost town has been accessible to the...

The Story Stones in Saint Paul, Minnesota

March 26, 2021

These 87 rocks, one from each of Minnesota’s counties, all carry an excerpt from a letter either to or from a deployed serviceman. The messages are a mix of sentimental and humorous, but all are a reminder of the importance of the family at home to those deployed on active service. The letters from which the excerpts are drawn are from conflicts as far back as the Civil War and come up to date with communications from the Middle...

The Ancient Method That Keeps Afghanistan's Grapes...

March 25, 2021

Ziaulhaq Ahmadi sits on the floor of his small, one-story house, a brown, mud-walled compound at the end of a dusty alley in Aqa Saray. Surrounded by vineyards, fruit trees, and snow-capped mountains, the village is a half hour’s drive north of Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital. With great gentleness, he taps on what looks like a sealed mud bowl until it cracks open. Ahmadi, 45, reveals a handful of grapes from inside the mud container. They have been there, he...

Hadrianic Aqueduct of Caesarea in Beit Hanania,...

March 25, 2021

Caesarea was one of the most important cities of the ancient Roman world and the capital of the province of Judaea. The ruins of Caesarea, sometimes referred to as Caesarea Maritima to distinguish it from Caesarea Philippi, lie on the Mediterranean coast of present-day Israel. The city was founded between 22 and 10 BCE by Herod the Great. When construction began, Caesarea had no reliable source of fresh water, so King Herod commissioned a raised aqueduct to deliver water from springs...

Brusher Mills Grave in Brockenhurst, England

March 25, 2021

Born as Harry Mills in 1840, Brusher Mills earned his nickname due to the fact that he was a frequent sight at local cricket matches where he would sweep, or brush, the pitch between innings. However, it was another community-spirited occupation that earned Brusher the status of a local celebrity in his home of the New Forest, where he lived a rustic lifestyle in the forest as a snake catcher and medicine man. Mills spent almost 30 years living...

The Sobreiro Monumental (Monumental Cork Oak) in...

March 25, 2021

In the small village of Águas de Moura, in Portugal’s Alentejo region, stands the world’s largest Cork oak tree (Quercus suber). Well over 230-years-old, the tree was planted in 1783, the same year that the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the American Revolutionary War. Sobreiro Monumental is also affectionately known as “The Whistler Tree ,” attributed to the sounds made by dozens of songbirds when they land and shelter among its branches. The magnificent tree is over...

The Indigenous Canadian Work of Art with...

March 25, 2021

Along the shores of the Red River in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is a tower of curving glass, steel, and alabaster, a bright place even in the dead of winter. In a gallery on the first floor, conservator Stephanie Chipilski checks equipment that monitors the room’s temperature and humidity. She slips on a pair of gloves and approaches a curving 40-foot wall of cedar that displays hundreds of items, many mounted on wooden blocks. The...

Sheffield Botanical Gardens Bear Pit in Sheffield,...

March 25, 2021

This bear pit is the finest surviving example in the United Kingdom, and its superb condition of the structure is thanks to the many years it was used as Yorkshire’s biggest compost pit. This is a Grade II listed structure and was built in 1836 to home Bruin, a black bear whose sole entertainment was a tree placed in the middle of the pit for him to climb, according to research by local historian Alison Hunter. Sadly for Bruin,...

Two Women Are Trying to Make India’s...

March 25, 2021

It was 15 years ago when they first started talking about dirty words. Tamanna Mishra and Neha Thakur often discussed how uneasy popular Indian expletives made them. Mishra, a communications consultant in Bengaluru, and Thakur, an Airbnb host in Mumbai, noticed increasingly casual use of these profanities in mainstream entertainment. The problem wasn’t the swearing itself, but they were bothered that many of these expressions seem to have biased, bigoted, or misogynist origins. This spurred the two women to...

Podcast: The Grave of Miss Baker

March 25, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit the grave of “America’s First Lady of Space,” an early astronaut whose incredible life was forgotten—where visitors leave bananas as a memorial. 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...

Inside the World's Largest Jewish Cookbook Collection

March 24, 2021

Roberta Saltzman shopped a lot on eBay. Often, her purchases fit into one narrow category: Jewish cookbooks, the more obscure, the better. Never mind that Saltzman, who died in 2014, was by all accounts not that interested in cooking. Over the years, she accumulated 700 Jewish cookbooks, with a particular focus on community cookbooks from small-town America. Despite being chief assistant librarian at the New York Public Library’s Dorot Jewish Division, Saltzman used her own money to build her...

The Lost Language of Easter Island

March 24, 2021

On the outskirts of Hanga Roa, Easter Island’s only town, the Museo Rapa Nui has a small but striking collection. It includes a rare female version of the monolithic statues known as moai, and sets of piercing moai eyes made from white coral and red volcanic rock. Finely worked obsidian tools sit alongside displays on the Birdman contest, which involved swimming through shark-infested waters and searching an offshore islet for a seabird egg in order to claim the spiritual...

To Save Norway's Stave Churches, Conservators Had...

March 24, 2021

To step into one of Scandinavia’s surviving stave churches is to enter the past. Shadows shift and tell stories in the elaborate carvings of intertwined beasts that are hallmarks of the churches’ unique architecture. Sounds reverberate off the timber as if traveling across centuries. The air feels dense with the tang of hewn wood, peat smoke, and pine tar. As early as the 11th century, builders began erecting these churches all over the region. Much of Europe was raising...

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