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Varoško Groblje in Kragujevac, Serbia

July 14, 2020

Kragujevac was the most important city for the automobile industry in Serbia. The Zastava factory produced various car models, mostly licensed by Fiat, and employed more than 10,000 workers. In the city of Kragujevac toward the end of the 20th-century, it wasn’t uncommon to have a family member or neighbor that worked at Zastava. Although the factory has since sold to Fiat and changed its name, most of the local residents still call it Zastava. It remains the city’s...

Miniatures & Curious Collections Museum in Roswell,...

July 14, 2020

Miniatures & Curious Collections Museum is a breath of fresh air in a town otherwise obsessed with alien imagery. According to one of the volunteers, this museum was started when the children of a Roswell-area miniature collectors group inherited the fruits of their parent’s hobby. The museum is filled with miniature diorama displays, along with miniature collections of mismatched proportions and styles. There is also a bizarre small-to-large foot sculpture display that adds to the charming confusion of this obscure...

Berobero no Kamisama in Kochi, Japan

July 14, 2020

Kochi Prefecture is known for its sake. Once a year, during the Tosa no Okyaku Festival, 18 sake brewers from across the prefecture bring seemingly endless bottles to Kochi City, so young and old can toast to the joys of the drink. Watching over the event is Berobero no Kamisama, the God of Drunkards. This extraordinary naked god, who is clearly three sheets to the wind, is a beloved mascot for sake fans in Kochi. Throughout the festivities, people pay...

Museo Menonita (Mennonite Museum) in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc,...

July 14, 2020

Opened in December 2001, this museum tells the story of the Mennonite colonies of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Mennonites are considered the most numerous of the Christian Protestant denominations known as Anabaptists. Of Central European origin, the group also includes similar groups such as the Amish, and tend to be known for a shunning of several types of modern technology and generally only using modern machinery for essential tasks. By some estimations, the world’s largest Mennonite population is...

Sleight Family Graveyard in Staten Island, New...

July 14, 2020

An abandoned cemetery on a slender rise in Staten Island, one of New York City’s five boroughs, has many names. The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission called it the Sleight Family Graveyard when it designated the parcel a landmark in 1968. The earliest gravestone is for Jacob Sleight, who died on June 20, 1751, which may explain the nomenclature. Other early settlers of the island and their descendants are interred here—the Seguine family makes up around half of the graves—and...

Meet the Former Cook Who Draws His...

July 13, 2020

A marbled slice of tonkotsu pork rests on a bed of yellow noodles, nestled next to three shiny green sheets of nori, some boiled spinach, and a few shreds of kikurage, or wood-ear mushroom. A pair of disposable chopsticks raises a tangle of noodles above the red bowl, as if headed to a waiting mouth just off the edge of the page. A description of the meal is printed next to the drawing, along with the price, date, and...

Schaezler Fountain in Augsburg, Germany

July 13, 2020

Adjacent to the city forest, the Siebentischanlagen is actually a separate, manmade landscape park. After the park was constructed on former farmland in 1908, a fountain known as Schaezler Fountain was designed to honor Baron Edmund von Schaezlerr, one of the donors responsible for the park. The fountain itself was also part of a so-called “Green Basilica”. The location of oak trees denote the outer walls of a church and the fountain marks the location of the altar. It’s said...

Arroyo Bird Park in San Juan Capistrano,...

July 13, 2020

Not much is known about this eclectic place, but just off the beaten path along the San Juan Creek, at the intersection of Calle Arroyo and Via Sonora, sits a tiny little folk/outsider art installation. It’s comprised of fake evergreen trees, dozens of handmade birdhouses, gnomes, little Buddha statues, blown glass sculptures, and a myriad of other trinkets people have left behind. At the park is a little free library encouraging people to take a book, return a book,...

Bashamichi Station Concourse in Yokohama, Japan

July 13, 2020

Passengers who get off the train at Bashamichi Station, Yokohama, may notice an unusual assortment of antiques covering the brick wall in its concourse. The display includes vault doors, safe deposit boxes, heating radiators, a sectional boiler, a lattice door, and even segments of handrails from a staircase. An information plaque accompanies the exhibit, detailing the previous lives of each artifact. Most of the items on display come from the annex building of the Bank of Yokohama, which was...

Beecher Island in Wray, Colorado

July 13, 2020

Due to the demobilization of the U.S. Army following the Civil War, it was stretched thin in the western territories, where conflicts flared up as more and more settlers moved into Native American land. In 1868, General Phillip Sheridan decided to try a novel approach in the Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska area. He charged an aide, Major George Forsyth of the 9th Cavalry, to gather “fifty first-class hardy frontiersmen, to be used as scouts against the hostile Indians.” The...

Eremo di San Cataldo (Hermitage of Saint...

July 13, 2020

The Eremo di San Cataldo (Hermitage of Saint Cataldus) is built into a steep cliff by the road connecting Contigliano to Cottanello in the region of Sabina, northeast of Rome. Its origins are unclear, and some historians believe that it could date back as far as the 10th century, a time when the nearby Abbey of Farfa controlled the region. However, it is first mentioned in the 16th century, along with the attribution to Saint Cataldus, seventh-century Bishop of...

Playing Cards Around the World and Through...

July 13, 2020

The history of playing cards is, in one major way, just like the history of the hammock. Starting, depending on who you ask, sometime around the ninth century, or the 11th, or the 13th, playing cards spread because everyone who saw them for the first time immediately recognized how much fun they could be, tried to get some for themselves, and introduced them to everyone they know. That’s how the hammock spread, too. But playing cards, unlike hammocks, have...

Monfort Fortress in Eilon, Israel

July 13, 2020

Israel is blessed with several well preserved Crusader fortress. What makes the Monfort special is the stunning setting and that it can be reached via a relatively short hike. It’s also one of the lesser-known Crusader fortresses. The British pastor, Henry Baker, visited the place in 1863 and wrote: “After a very slow ride for three and a half hours, we reached the edge of the trail … and another three miles later, we will discover the fort on...

How Mexico City Crowdsourced a Map of...

July 10, 2020

Each day, at least under normal circumstances, residents of Mexico City take 17 million rides in peseros—a fleet of green-and-white vans or microbuses that are part of the city’s informal transportation system. The peseros—30,000 strong—are a world of their own. They can be crowded. Some blast music. They serve areas of the city underserved by other forms of public transportation. They serve more riders than all the city’s forms of public transportation. But there’s one major problem. There was...

The Lingering Legacy of America’s First Cookie-Cutter...

July 10, 2020

From the air, the homes fan out like intricate beadwork. For decades, America’s suburbs have been a popular setting for television shows, from I Love Lucy to Desperate Housewives, chronicling entertaining trivialities against the backdrop of meticulously shorn lawns, the drifting smoke of barbecues, the infrastructure of cars and roads: a pleasantly domestic—but fraught—version of the American dream. The idyllic ideal of modern suburbia in the United States was born in 1947 with the creation of Levittown, a large...

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