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Barkin’ Springs in Austin, Texas

July 20, 2020

Located immediately downstream from the spillway current that comes out of Barton Springs, Austin’s big, spring-fed, municipal swimming hole, Barkin’ Springs just might be regarded as a direct rebellion against its bigger neighbor, and its admission fees, lifeguards, and no-dogs policy. The visitors from all walks of life who congregate at this swimming hole seem to share one common value: their love for dogs. This canine-lover’s paradise is almost always filled with life and activity, from owners playing fetch,...

El Palmar de Troya in Utrera,...

July 20, 2020

In 1968, in the rural district of El Palmar de Troya in Utrera, near Seville, some girls picking flowers saw a vision of the Virgin Mary. As word of the sight spread, the area began to attract both seekers and seers, among them a layman from Seville, Clemente Domínguez. Domínguez reported visions of his own and capitalized on the religious fervor around him. According to his visions, the Catholic Church had become progressive and heretical. Upon the death of...

How Historical Societies Are Bringing Their Recipes...

July 17, 2020

Kayla Chenault and Dean Nasreddine had spent months planning a murder-mystery experience inside the Detroit Historical Museum. As the Detroit Historical Society’s education-programs coordinator and community-outreach coordinator, respectively, they had imagined a party, set at the height of Prohibition in 1926, where guests in period attire would enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres while learning about Detroit’s wild and wooly bootlegging days. But on the day the event was meant to take place, the state of Michigan handed down a...

Staff Sgt. Reckless Monument in Triangle, Virginia

July 17, 2020

Forever frozen in time, the mare struggles up a steep incline in her ill-fitting tack and pack saddle. Her head bows, and her tail lifts in the wind. Strapped to her back are four canisters of live explosives. The life-size bronze statue is called The Uphill Battle, and Staff Sergeant Reckless, the mare it depicts, was a United States Marine. The 10-foot-tall, 1,200-pound equine monument sits at the end of a corridor of trees in the Semper Fidelis Memorial Park...

Meet the United States’s Only Female Lighthouse...

July 17, 2020

“Do you believe in past lives?” asked Sally Snowman. I hesitated, and she changed the subject. Later, she mentioned it again. “When I asked you about past lives,” she said, “I feel as if I’ve done this before, and that I came home. For the past 17 years, Snowman has served as the keeper of Boston Light, a centuries-old lighthouse, out on a freckle of treeless land in Boston Harbor, in Massachusetts. It’s a lifelong love story—at 10, she...

Ethnographic Museum of Krüje in Krujë,...

July 17, 2020

Located on the grounds of Krüje Castle, this original house was constructed in 1764 by Ismail Pashë Toptani as his family home. Built on the mountainside with fantastic views from the windows, this traditional house reflects the Ottoman style that was brought to Albania when the region was ruled by the Ottoman Empire several hundred years before. The ground floor contained a stable for animals and a workshop where tools were sharpened, olive oil was made, and flour was...

The Blaxhall Stone in Blaxhall, England

July 17, 2020

Laying a stone’s throw from the appropriately named Stone Farm in Blaxhall is a large boulder with an ever-growing tale to tell. Local legend claims the Blaxhall Stone has been swelling to an ever-greater size since at least the 19th-century. Legend tells how a plowman, after hitting the rock while working his field, moved the stone outside his house to avoid it inconveniencing his daily fieldwork. At the time, it was apparently only the size of his two fists...

Monumento ad Ayrton Senna in Imola, Italy

July 17, 2020

On May 1, 1994, the history of Formula One racing changed forever. On that unforgettable day Ayrton Senna, one of the greatest F1 drivers, and three times World Champion crashed and died against the concrete wall of the Tamburello curve during the San Marino Grand Prix. It was a terrible conclusion to a damned weekend. Just days earlier, driver Rubens Barrichello crashed rounding the Variante Bassa curve. Roland Ratzenberger also crashed during the race and died attempting to navigate the...

Haneda Ōtorii in Ota City, Japan

July 17, 2020

Established in 1804, a shrine by the name of Anamori Inari Shrine originally stood on the western part of what is now Haneda Airport. Its main subject of worship was Toyoukebime, goddess of agriculture, who was syncretized with Inari Ōkami, the fertility deity (kami). After hot springs were discovered right in front of it, the shrine became quite popular from the late 19th-century to the early 20th-century. During the Allied occupation of Japan following World War II, General Douglas...

The Roman Baths of Toledo in Toledo,...

July 17, 2020

The Roman Baths of Amador de los Rios, also known as the Roman Baths of Toledo, once covered nearly 25,000 square feet in the city’s historic center. They served as a kind of social club where legal agreements and businesses of all kinds were closed. The thermal baths were used until the sixth century. In 1500 they were partially destroyed by the people of Toledo, who took stone from the baths to use in other construction. Today marble and...

The Brazilian Desert That Turns Into a...

July 17, 2020

During the dry season, it’s not hard to see how Brazil’s Lençóis Maranhenses National Park got its snoozy name. Lençóis maranhenses is Portuguese for “bedsheets of Maranhão,” referring to a state in the northeast of the country and its endlessly undulating, whipped cream-white landscape—the largest field of sand dunes in South America. Without a guide, one can get lost easily in the vast territory of drifts that can reach over 65 feet in height. At first glance, the miles...

How Constructing Enormous ‘Log Jams’ Is Saving...

July 16, 2020

Cavin Park was working for the Quinault Indian Reservation’s invasive plant crew when he watched a towering crane stack logs 100 feet across the bed of the Upper Quinault River. Pile drivers 70-feet high stood against the backdrop of the foggy, spruce-filled woods that give Washington’s Pacific coast its spirit of mysterious beauty. The purpose of the construction project was to mimic nature: The workers formed log jams meant to restore the River’s ecosystem and its depleted blueback salmon...

Rocca di Piediluco in Piediluco, Italy

July 16, 2020

Piediluco is a small village on the eponymous lake in southern Umbria, near the cities of Terni and Rieti. The name originally derives from a sacred forest that the ancient Roman author Pliny described in his “Naturalis Historia”. It was a sacred woodland initially dedicated to the Sabine goddess Vacuna and later, during the time of ancient Rome, to the goddesses Diana and Velinia. The site was fortified during the Middle Ages, but its heyday came during the conflicts...

The Badass Black Cowboys of Compton, California

July 16, 2020

Richland Farms, a zoned agricultural area in the city of Compton, south of Los Angeles, has long fostered a vibrant equestrian community. In 1988, Mayisha Akbar created a horseback riding club for local Black youth to keep them away from gangs and violence. As members grew up, many kept riding, continuing a long and rich history of Black cowboys in the American West. Today, a close-knit group known as the Compton Cowboys celebrate this legacy on the very same...

The Well of the Miracle in Madrid,...

July 16, 2020

At the site that once held the house of the noble Vargas family, where Saint Isidore and his wife Maria worked as servants, little remains—only an old well built in the 12th century. Archaeological investigations between 1989 and 1997 had revealed the floor of the building, a cemetery, and this well, which held Spanish-Muslim pottery from the 10th and 11th centuries. Today it is a part of the Saint Isidore Museum, which covers the city’s deep history. Legend has it that one...

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