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The Camposanto in Pisa, Italy

December 17, 2020

While the Camposanto (monumental cemetery) is right next to one of the most recognized buildings in the world, it does not see nearly as many visitors. The silence and stillness when traversing the open-air hallways adds to the sometimes haunting nature of the 14th-15th-century frescoes. These works of art include “The Last Judgement,” “Hell,” and “The Triumph of Death and Thebaid.” The stone floor tiles are all gravestones dating to the late 13th-century and sarcophagi are scattered throughout the...

Northern Lighthouse Board in Edinburgh, Scotland

December 17, 2020

The capital of Scotland is not short on its share of monuments. There are some dedicated to the famous, such as The Walter Scott Monument. Others highlight the more nefarious, such as the Melville Monument commemorating Henry Dundas. Dundas was an 18th-century lawyer and politician involved with the slave trade. However, not far from these two towering creations, on one of the city’s most prestigious streets, is a minuscule model of a lighthouse with a working and revolving lantern....

Srpski Holywood in Boljkovci, Serbia

December 17, 2020

The Hollywood sign, which stands on a hill overlooking Los Angeles, is one of the world’s most recognizable sites. A continent away, on a grassy hill overlooking the small town of Rudnik, Serbia, there is a nearly identical sign. Only on close inspection does one notice the differences: The Serbian sign has just one “l,” and reads in full “Serbian Holywood,” although “Serbian” appears in much smaller font. The creation of local artist Ivan Jakovljević, also known as Ivo...

How to Play a Fiery Victorian Christmas...

December 17, 2020

This month, Gastro Obscura is sharing the recipes and stories behind amazing holiday dishes and drinks from around the world in the ongoing series “Home-Cooked Holidays.” In the 19th century, Christmas looked a little different. For holiday fun, revelers in the United States and England scared their friends with ghost stories, told fortunes, and played boisterous party games. One such game, snapdragon, is rarely part of anyone’s Christmas these days. After all, it involves pulling sweets from a puddle...

The Italian Immigrants Who Grew Fig Trees...

December 16, 2020

They brought them in suitcases and in trunks, tucked into the corners of boats and, later, on airplanes. Seeds that became rapini, cardoons, artichokes, cucuzza squash. Cuttings from knobby grape vines that flourished into backyard arbors. And, above all, bits of stick that grew into fig trees. Starting in the late 1800s, when Italian immigrants poured into U.S. port cities, the Mediterranean trees took root in unexpected places: Astoria, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Bayonne, cities whose cold-weather climates seemed hostile to...

Trying to Make Sense of the Mystery...

December 16, 2020

Historians are going to have their work cut out for them when they try to bring sense to the strange cascade that has been 2020. Every month brought something that seemed more eventful than the last. Then came the monoliths. If—by a force more mystifying than the monoliths themselves—you’re still not familiar with the story, here’s the basic (far from comprehensive) rundown. On November 18, 2020, officers from Utah’s Department of Public Safety were conducting a routine flyover of...

Bardia National Park in Nepal

December 16, 2020

A little more than 60 Royal Bengal tigers roam Bardia National Park, around one-fourth the total tiger population in Nepal. Together with the adjacent Banke National Park, Bardia forms part of the 860 square mile Tiger Conservation Unit, where visitors have a sporting chance of seeing the usually elusive great cats in the wild. Because it’s more remote than the better known Chitwan National Park, few people visit the less developed Bardia, allowing flora and fauna to flourish. Tigers...

Wind Phone in Marshall, North Carolina

December 16, 2020

There is a place in North Carolina where some believe you can make a phone call to those who passed on. In Marshall, just north of Asheville, resides a phone booth that contains a disconnected rotary phone. Visitors enter the booth, dial, and talk to those who they have not forgotten. The concept behind the booth is that words spoken through the phone will be carried into the wind to the other side. The Wind Phone is a replica...

Uravan in Uravan, Colorado

December 16, 2020

In the early 20th century, a mining boom swept through Western Colorado and Eastern Utah in search of vanadium, a valuable element used to reinforce steel. Uravan began as a single mill and quickly boomed once the U.S. Vanadium Corporation discovered rich deposits in the surrounding valley. But vanadium became overshadowed by another element found as a byproduct of its extraction: uranium, which quickly gained value as work on atomic science gripped the world in the 1930s and ’40s....

John Eliot Memorial in Newton, Massachuetts

December 16, 2020

John Eliot was a missionary who came from Cambridge, England to Boston in 1630. His major interest was the conversion of the native population of Massachusetts Bay. This desire led him to translate the Bible and other religious material into the Wampanoag dialect of Native Americans, who inhabited the area they called Nonantum. Eliot preached at Nonantum under the famed Oak and converted several Native Americans to Christianity. This culminated with the 1646 conversion of Chief Waban in his...

The Appalachian Trail Shoe Tree in Blairsville,...

December 16, 2020

In north Georgia, near Blood Mountain and the southern terminus of the more than 2,000 mile long Appalachian Trail, many unsuspecting travelers are struck by the strange sight of hundreds of hiking boots. The shoes can be seen hanging from the trees outside the Walasi-Yi Interpretive Center. On foggy mornings, the sight of all these unexplained suspended shoes makes for an ominous scene and conveys a foreboding feeling of unease. To many people’s surprise, the elevated boots are actually a...

Basilica of San Giorgio in Velabro in...

December 15, 2020

The Basilica of San Giorgio in Velabro is a religious building located in Rome, edificated on the former swampy area of Velabro and dedicated to Saint George. The origins of the church are not clear. It’s mentioned in various Early Middle documents, but these could also be a nod to a separate building. The current church was likely constructed in the 7th-century and was restored several times over its history. This included many additions that radically altered the original...

Monument to Orange in Odesa, Ukraine

December 15, 2020

For centuries, the Ukrainian city of Odessa has served as the region’s great trading port. But legend has it that it took a fabulous bribe to pave the way. The story goes that 18th-century Odessa wanted money to build their port. Unfortunately, when the new tzar Paul I took power in 1796, he diverted the badly-needed port money elsewhere. That left the city in limbo. As a result, town officials came up with an interesting solution. They imported 4,000...

Andersonville National Historic Site in Andersonville, Georgia

December 15, 2020

Andersonville is now a sleepy little town in southern Georgia. But during the Civil War, it was the site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison. Here, thousands of captured Union soldiers perished, often from the miserable conditions. Today, the National Park Service maintains the National POW Museum where the prison once stood. The first Union prisoners arrived here on February 24, 1864. What awaited them was simply an open field surrounded by stockade walls. At first, overcrowding was not an issue,...

Smoky Mountain Knife Works in Sevierville, Tennessee

December 15, 2020

Smoky Mountain Knife Works is heralded as the “World’s largest knife showplace.” The showroom covers more than 100,000 square feet and has more than a million visitors annually. The store is home to a massive collection of museum-quality cutlery memorabilia, artifacts, and mounts—as well as a plethora of knives and outdoor equipment. Inside, visitors will also find the Smoky Mountain Relic Room, a room filled with an extensive collection of fossils, gems, minerals, artifacts, and meteorites. Visitors will also...

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