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Lowell Mausoleum in Flagstaff, Arizona

August 17, 2020

A small mausoleum located on a windswept mountainside is the final resting place of a businessman-turned-astronomer whose work led to the discovery of Pluto. Just steps away from a historic telescope on the property of Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory, the small, domed structure contains the remains of Percival Lowell, a wealthy and connected member of a prominent Boston family. While his background included running cotton mills and diplomatic visits to Asia, Lowell became fascinated by what he thought were “canals”...

Castello della Valle in Fiumefreddo Bruzio, Italy

August 17, 2020

The small hamlet of Fiumefreddo Bruzio is located on the western coast of Calabria, among the hills and mountains that characterize the hard-to-traverse region. A tower was constructed on one of these hills during the Lombard domination of the region and was later used by the Normans. Between the late 12th and early 13th-centuries, when Calabria was ruled by the Kingdom of Sicily, the structure was expanded into a castle and became the property of various noblemen and feudatories....

The Museum Where Racist and Oppressive Statues...

August 14, 2020

Last year, Urte Evert received a 400-pound church bell imprinted with a small but unmistakable swastika, and she faced a conundrum. Evert is the director of the Citadel Museum in the Berlin suburb of Spandau, and the bronze bell—cast in 1934 for the ascendant Nazi regime—hung at the nearby Evangelical Church of Hakenfelde until the astonishingly recent date of 2017. Evert hoped to add the Nazi artifact to the museum’s permanent collection of toxic monuments: busts of militaristic Prussian...

How Former Samurai and Farmers Cultivated the...

August 14, 2020

In the 1860s, under the threat of colonization by Western powers, the Japanese government undertook an urgent modernization project. Their efforts affected countless facets of Japanese daily life, from the development of a European-style military to smaller changes such as the installation of street lamps. With a large readership curious about foreign cultures and the new technologies that their nation was rapidly adopting, Japanese publishers rose to the occasion, churning out a vibrant array of books and woodblock prints...

Hotei Buddha in Konan, Japan

August 14, 2020

One night in 1949, a 43-year-old acupuncturist in Nagoya named Hidenobu Maeda had a strange dream that compelled him to build a daibutsu, or great statue of Buddha. Although a total amateur in sculpture, Maeda decided to do as he was told, and completed the reinforced concrete statue five years later. Standing (or rather, sitting) 60 feet tall, the Hotei Buddha is the largest privately owned daibutsu in Japan, even bigger than the famous Great Buddha of Nara. This Buddha is...

The Two-Headed Calf of the Georgia State...

August 14, 2020

Tucked under the glimmering gold dome of the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta is a curiosity that has many visitors seeing double. Proudly on display next to the introduction to the Capitol Museum is a stuffed, two-headed calf born in the town of Palmetto in 1987. It was originally introduced alongside other taxidermied animals in a display that celebrated the state’s natural resources, and that has since been removed from the museum. The beloved two-headed oddity was too popular not...

Goathland Station in Goathland, England

August 14, 2020

Constructed during the 1860s, Goathland Station has managed to survive the changing times and remains part of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, where steam trains seasonally travel throughout the national park. It’s a beautiful village station and attraction in its own right, but Goathland’s claim to fame is definitely its appearance as Hogsmeade Station in the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone or Sorcerer’s Stone depending on which side of the pond you’re based. The station’s...

Local Emancipation Commemorations Bring Black Communities Closer...

August 14, 2020

With the sultry humidity of Tennessee summer hanging in the air, a small group dressed in white gathered on a Saturday morning, under shade trees at Freedmen’s Mission Historic Cemetery in Knoxville. The little patch of earth adjacent to Knoxville College, a historically Black liberal arts school, is dotted with weathered headstones. Prior to the pandemic, and since 2015, nearly 100 community members would have filled the small cemetery’s rolling terrain on this distinctive date—August 8. They would come...

Oswald’s Well in Oswestry, England

August 14, 2020

The market town of Oswestry, situated close to the Welsh border, is said to be named after the Anglo-Saxon King Oswald of Northumbria. Born in 604, he was crowned king of Northumbria at the age of 30. It’s believed he died only eight years later during the Battle of Maserfield in 642, where he lost to the pagan king, King Penda of Mercia. Oswald has since been venerated as a saint. Upon his death, his body was dismembered and according to legend,...

Hōryū-ji in Ikaruga, Japan

August 14, 2020

Hōryū-ji Temple in Ikaruga City, Nara Prefecture, houses the world’s oldest wooden structures, many of which have stood for well over 1,400 years. It’s believed they were constructed sometime between 552-710, undergoing various repairs and renovations over the centuries. A pine tree-lined avenue leads to the towering main gate. Beyond that gate is the temple’s courtyard. This is where the main hall or main temple and a five-story pagoda are located. The pagoda is the oldest structure at the complex....

Carraig Fhada Lighthouse in Isle of Islay,...

August 14, 2020

This striking right-angled lighthouse tower on a rocky headland to the south of Port Ellen harbor is one of the first sights travelers see when arriving on Islay on the Port Ellen ferry. The lighthouse tower was constructed in 1832 by the Laird of Islay, Walter Frederick Campbell in memory of his wife, Lady Ellinor Campbell who tragically died at the age of 36. She passed the same year the tower was built. During her later years, she struggled...

A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks Is...

August 13, 2020

In the early 1960s, Julia Child and her husband handed Barbara Ketcham Wheaton the keys to their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The famous couple was going to California for the summer, but they wanted their young neighbor to be able to continue one of her favorite activities: perusing Child’s collection of historical cookbooks. Now an honorary curator of Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library Culinary Collection, Wheaton was then in her early 30s, with young children at home. She had left...

Mission Ruins of Venn’s Town in Seychelles

August 13, 2020

Deep in the Morne Seychellois National Park, perched on a mountaintop are the ruins of a mission named after Henry Venn, an Anglican missionary. Venn’s Town was a mission set up in 1876, and it consisted of a boarding school, dormitories, a laundry building, kitchens, washrooms, and dwellings for laborers, teachers, and the school principal. In order to sustain its operations, the mission cultivated vanilla, coffee, and cocoa among other produce over a large swath of land (approximately 50...

Explaining Our Obsession With the Unexplained

August 13, 2020

This story is excerpted and adapted from Colin Dickey’s new book, The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession With the Unexplained. June 1996, and the United States was on edge. A year after Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, the country watched anxiously as a standoff between the FBI and a militia group unfolded in Jordan, Montana. The Montana Freemen had declared themselves outside the reach of U.S. law, had stopped paying...

Knill’s Steeple in Carbis Bay, England

August 13, 2020

In 1782, Customs & Excise Officer and soon-to-be-mayor of St. Ives John Knill built a vainglorious mausoleum so the local townsfolk would remember him. Upon his death in London in 1811, his will instructed that every five years, on July 25, 10 young girls, two widows, a local minister, the mayor of St. Ives, a violinist, and a tax man should engage in dancing, singing, and music around his 50-foot-tall, sharp-sided, triangular granite pyramid. And so an unusual local ritual...

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