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Tarragona Amphitheater in Tarragona, Spain

March 24, 2021

In the city of Tarragona, the ruins of a massive structure stand by the water’s edge. Built in the second century, this amphitheater once held up to 15,000 spectators for various events including brutal gladiator fights. From a distance this structure looks like a semi-circular Roman theatre, but the original plan was a complete oval. It was located outside the city, near the forum and the entrance of the town. The reason for its current appearance is that in the sixth...

Souq Wakif Blue Road in Doha,...

March 24, 2021

There’s a blue road running by Souq Waqif known as Abdullah Bin Jassim Street. The unconventional idea to paint the road blue was approved by Ashghal, the Public Works Authority, as a pilot project designed to reduce heat radiating from the asphalt. The exact composition of the paint is not a matter of public knowledge. All that is known is that the paint consists of four coats, resulting in a thick layer of heat-reflecting blue paint, with hollow ceramic...

Umi-Shibaura Station in Yokohama, Japan

March 24, 2021

Umi-Shibaura Station is famed for a few things, none of them quite ordinary. For one, no other train station in Japan is as close to the sea as this one. Built right above the waters of the Keihin Canal, the station’s single platform provides spectacular views of Tokyo Bay. It’s so scenic that the Ministry of Transport listed it as one of the 100 Greatest Stations in Kanto, and many people visit the location every New Year’s Eve to...

Tyne Cyclist and Pedestrian Tunnels in...

March 24, 2021

Buried beneath the river bed of the River Tyne is a pedestrian and cyclist tunnel that was built to provide a vital link between the communities on either side of the river. Access to these tunnels is via the longest wooden escalator in the world. The Tyne Cyclist and Pedestrian Tunnels was an ambitious engineering project which involved miners operating in compressed air to excavate the tunnels. The project cost £833,000 to construct and was completed in 1951. The...

Kilroot House in Kilroot, Northern Ireland

March 24, 2021

The word Kilroot is derived from the Irish words “Cill Ruaidh,” meaning “church of the red” or “the red church.” This name derived from the presence of a red-brown subsoil noted in the area due to the high amounts of Mercia Mudstone, but it has also been suggested that it could have derived from a bloody battle that occurred in the area during 1199. The area is believed to have been one of the earliest Christian sites in the...

Podcast: Minister's Treehouse

March 24, 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 world’s biggest treehouse, inspired by a message from God. 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. Join us daily, Monday through Thursday, to explore a...

Across the Nation, a Native American Coffee...

March 23, 2021

In a northeastern neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, a small coffeehouse stands covered with pictures of bison. For centuries here, on the land of the Cowlitz, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and Clackamas peoples, there have been no bison. But Bison Coffeehouse still pays tribute to the animal that sustained Native American communities across the country. Inside, Native American art adorns the space, centered around a mounted buffalo head. While the cafe’s decor honors the bison, the business itself is...

Mahwah Museum in Mahwah, New Jersey

March 23, 2021

In the fall of 1871, the Mahwah Train Station was constructed. The new building helped the small town of Mahwah grow and to prosper over the years. After spending much of its life as a station, the former depot was utilized as a storage facility. Later, the station was moved to its current location and was transformed into The Old Station Museum in 1967. It later became known as the Mahwah Museum. Inside, visitors will find displays of various objects...

Edstone Aqueduct in Warwickshire, England

March 23, 2021

Built in 1816 to carry the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, the Edstone Aqueduct is the longest canal aqueduct in England (although there are longer ones in both Scotland and Wales and a number of higher ones too). It is 475 feet long and 33 feet high at its highest point. The engineer was William Whitmore. It crosses a minor road, a stream, a live railway line (formerly the Birmingham, North Warwickshire and Stratford Railway) and a disused railway line (the former...

Old Two Spot Logging Train in Flagstaff,...

March 23, 2021

This old Baldwin locomotive once served the local lumber industry, hauling huge tree trunks from the forest to the mills. Constructed in Pennsylvania in 1911, the train came to Arizona in 1917 when it was purchased by the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. It passed through various owners until it reached The Stone Forest Company, which folded in 1993. A group of residents, led by Malcomb Mackay, maintained fond memories of the locomotive and raised funds to purchase and...

Khari Baoli Rooftop in New Delhi, India

March 23, 2021

Old Delhi is bursting with history and with modern-day activity. Built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the mid-1600s as a walled city called Shahjahanabad, it served as the capital’s empire from then until the British Raj gained supremacy in 1857. Though India’s current center of government rests a few miles south in New Delhi, Old Delhi has stood the test of time as a center of commerce. The street of Khari Baoli might be the most lively and...

Loved or Loathed: Can Madagascar's Aye-Aye Survive...

March 23, 2021

In a remote rainforest in Madagascar’s northeast, Doménico Randimbiharinirina and Dominik Schüßler wandered into a ghost town. Its inhabitants were long gone, and the wooden frames and thatched roofs of dozens of huts slumped and rotted into creeping vegetation. Locals had told the two scientists about this abandoned village. About three years earlier, it was home to more than a hundred people. But then the residents fled. They rebuilt their village several miles away, unwilling to return to this...

Estrella de los Deseos (Wishing Star) in...

March 23, 2021

If you look closely, you can find a little star embedded in the wall of the Mosque-Cathedral in Córdoba. Known to some as the Estrella de los Deseos (Wishing Star), this star exactly is located in a corner of the Cathedral-Mosque, next to Torrijos street. It is actually a type of fossil. People who walk by often touch it and make a wish, just in case it will be fulfilled. Despite the alleged magical properties that have been attributed...

Christiansø in Gudhjem, Denmark

March 23, 2021

The easternmost point in Denmark might be also its most remote. Christiansø is a small Danish island, part of the archipelago known as Ertholmene, which is located 18 kilometers (11 miles) northeast of the island of Bornholm. It is also home to the easternmost point in Denmark (Greenland and the Faroe Islands included). With an area of just 55 acres, this small rocky outcrop in the middle of the Baltic Sea hosts a permanent population of some 90 people. The small...

Get Wild With These Award-Winning Nature Photos

March 23, 2021

When photographer Vladimir Cech saw fresh lynx tracks by a fallen tree in the border region of the Bohemian Forest in Czechia, he hoped that his homemade DSLR camera traps would catch the wildcat. They didn’t, but what he did get was spectacular: a quiet image of a red fox delicately making its way across a tree trunk over a stream. The magic of the picture, according to Cech, is in the details: the lift of the fox’s leg,...

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