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Canada Malting Silos in Montreal, Québec

June 11, 2020

One of the most spectacular structures in Montreal’s Saint-Henri neighborhood looks like a supervillain’s lair. Dozens of tightly-packed silos form a massive wall, flanked by two derelict towers. The Canada Malting Silos have been described as a “cathedral of industry.” For Montreal’s urban explorers and graffiti artists, they’re more of a Mount Everest. The silos’ resemblance to a pack of beer cans is entirely appropriate, as Canada Malting was once a key supplier to many distilleries and breweries. Built...

The Utilitarian Pleasures of Playing Board Games...

June 11, 2020

Brandon Waite was packing up after an evening playing board games with his friends when he noticed “1 to 4 players” written on the side of one of the boxes. Just like that, he stumbled onto the idea of playing games by himself. “I had just never heard of that before, or I thought I hadn’t,” he recalls. “But of course, most of us have played solitaire at some point.” Since the release of “Settlers of Catan,” in...

Scientists Tracked Truly Enormous Tuna From Way...

June 10, 2020

The Atlantic bluefin tuna hunts like a wolf and is built like a barrel. “They’re power-packed animals,” says Mike Jech, a fishery biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Often stretching more than six feet long and topping 500 pounds, hefty Thunnus thynnus travel in packs, zooming in and out of various types of formations, from long lines to dense clusters. Typically, the titanic tuna swim at the pace of...

These Farmers Are Delivering Veggies From a Fleet...

June 10, 2020

When the coronavirus pandemic escalated in early March and Colorado’s governor ordered all restaurants to end on-site dining, Eric Skokan prepared to watch his life’s work slip away. Instead, he’s delivering carrots and arugula to his neighbors like a vegetable-slinging ice-cream-truck driver. Skokan and his wife, Jill, own two restaurants and a farm in Boulder, Colorado. After closing their restaurants Black Cat and Bramble & Hare, the duo scrambled to come up with new ideas to keep the business...

How a ‘Flying Photographer’ Sees the World...

June 10, 2020

In 1997, New Jersey–based photographer George Steinmetz decided to learn to fly, when he was assigned to shoot in the central Sahara and learned that his bush pilot had backed out. Steinmetz’s aircraft of choice was not an airplane but a motorized paraglider, which is more or less a backpack-mounted motor connected to a single-seat harness hanging under a parachute-like wing. “I originally got into paragliding because I wanted to fly in the Sahara,” he says, “and where I...

Three Headstones in American Military Cemeteries Bear...

June 10, 2020

More than 1,300 veterans have been laid to rest in the Fort Douglas Post Cemetery in Salt Lake City since it was established in 1862. Each of these graves, of course, tells a story. But one of them, on its own, complicates the entire narrative. The headstone belongs to Paul Eilert—a German prisoner of war who died in Utah in 1944. It is marked with more than the average epitaph. Eilert’s headstone, in an American military cemetery, is inscribed...

Cave of Swimmers in Al Wahat Al...

June 10, 2020

The 1996 film The English Patient, based on Michael Ondaatje’s book, bears a rather loose resemblance to the life and times of the real-life László Almásy. Between the World Wars, this intrepid Hungarian desert explorer and, later, Axis collaborator, did indeed find a cave in southwest Egypt’s hyper-remote Gilf Kebir plateau. This is a corner of the Sahara that’s so arid and little-visited that the plateau itself had only been discovered a few years earlier. The cave, in a natural amphitheater...

Latin Church in Gornji Matejevac, Serbia

June 10, 2020

On Metoh Hill, above the city of Niš and in the village of Gornji Matejevac, is an 11th-century Orthodox church dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Known as the Latin Church, the building got the name from Dubrovnik merchants (called “Latins” by the locals for their Catholic faith) who used it for religious ceremonies in the 16th century. It is one of the few buildings from the pre-Nemanjić dynasty epoch (Medieval Serbia), when the region was still part of the...

Sisupalgarh in Bhubaneswar, India

June 10, 2020

Dating all the way back to 7th century B.C., even prior to the Mauryan Empire, the archaeological remains of Sisupalgarh (also known as Sisupalagada) is considered one of the largest and best preserved ancient fortifications in India. Located near the city of Bhubaneswar, the remains of the fortification were discovered in 1948 by the Indian archaeologist B.B. Lal. With evidence collected from excavations, Lal estimated that the fort city flourished between third century B.C. and the fourth century A.D. Sisupalgarh was...

Arco Naturale (Natural Arch) in Capri, Italy

June 10, 2020

The island of Capri in Italy is known for its beauty, including unique rock formations like the famous Faraglioni and the Grotta Azzurra. Along the eastern coast of the island, there is another, less famous natural formation known as the Arco Naturale. Arco Naturale is a natural limestone arch that forms a bridge between two pillars of rock. It is located on the top of a cliff and it spans 18 meters (59 feet) in height and 12 meters...

Segóbriga Archaeological Park in Saelices, Spain

June 10, 2020

In 1888, a Celtiberian burial site was discovered near the town of Saelices inside of a cave, containing human remains and artifacts dating back to the Bronze Age. Gradually, architectural relics from the Roman era were unearthed in the surrounding area. This wasn’t just a burial site; this was one of the most important cities in the ancient Roman world. Originally a Celtic settlement, Segóbriga was conquered by the Roman Republic in the second century B.C. and became its...

Alki Flower Houses in Seattle, Washington

June 10, 2020

Nestled between high-rise condominiums on Alki Avenue in Seattle, a pair of attention-grabbing houses peeks out from the surrounding gray. Randie Stone’s famous Flower Houses are a favorite with locals and a dramatic draw for tourists. Built in 1914, the houses have withstood the test of time—and the inevitability of urban development—in this popular West Seattle neighborhood. Stone purchased the houses in 1989 after moving from Hawaii, and credits the islands as inspiration for her homes’ colorful outdoor bounty....

‘Babies’ in Prague, Czechia

June 10, 2020

The city of Prague is infamous for its unusual, often bizarre public art, much of which was created by Czech sculptor David Černý. Another of his works can be found on the exterior of the Žižkov Television Tower, and it’s the stuff of nightmares. Miminka (Babies in English) consists of 10 fiberglass sculptures of babies crawling up and down the tower. Each approximately 11.5 feet long and 8.5 feet tall, and weighing 550 pounds, they seem to defy gravity. And if giant...

Royal Stables of Meknes in Meknes, Morocco

June 10, 2020

During the reign of Sultan Moulay Ismail, between 1645 and 1727, the medieval city of Meknes served as Morocco‘s capital. While his royal palace was largely destroyed by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the adjacent Royal Stables have survived to this day, beautifully preserved, though seven times their original size. It’s a magnificent stabling complex, and back in its day it could accommodate up to 12,000 royal horses. Rumor has it that the sultan so loved horses that he treated...

John Muir’s Giant Sequoia in Martinez, California

June 10, 2020

A single, 80-foot-tall giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) stands alone near the stunning, Victorian-period Italianate mansion in Martinez, California, where John Muir spent the last 24 years of his life. The tree is almost 140-years-old—a youngster compared to many of its species, which can live for thousands of years and reach an average height of 164 to 279 feet. However this sequoia is significant because it is a living connection to America’s most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist, known as...

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