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Tom Devlin’s Monster Museum in Boulder City,...

October 14, 2023

Entering Tom Devlin’s Monster Museum is like walking into a who’s who of horror films. Life-sized recreations of It’s Pennywise, and Halloween’s Michael Myers share space with the Creature from the Black Lagoon, while a series of creepy anthropomorphic puppets from the Puppet Master film series co-exist beside a smorgasbord of other screen-used characters. Devlin is a professional special effects artist who has contributed to more than 100 scary movies and TV shows, from Leprechaun to The X-Files, in...

The Time a Town Was in an...

October 13, 2023

One rainy day in January 2017, a small but determined group gathered outside the parliament building of Pontianak city, Indonesia for a protest. Printed across a large banner was the group’s name: GEMA TOPAN, which (translated from Indonesian) stands for “Community Movement to Reject Ghost Statue.” Along the bottom was the hashtag #tolakpatongantu, meaning “Reject Ghost Statue.” It was an unusual cause for a demonstration, but these were unusual circumstances. Not long before, word had circulated around social media...

Ray Charles Memorial in Albany, Georgia

October 13, 2023

This small park on the Flint River is home to a musical dedication to the “King of Soul” Ray Charles. A fountain sits in the middle with a statue of Charles and his piano. Visitors can hear his music play along with the sound of the water from the fountain. The entire park has a musical theme, the walkway is a piano keyboard, and musical notes along with piano keys are places to sit.

'Broken Column' in Stavanger, Norway

October 13, 2023

Broken Column is an artwork by the British sculptor Antony Gormley. The artwork is designed to act as an “art hike” consisting of 23 rusting, mannequin-like sculptures set up in public, semi-public, and private locations across the city of Stavanger. Some statues are outside public places and are accessible 24 hours a day, others are in less accessible areas such as the public swimming baths, a store, and a school. One statue is even located in a private home. The...

Make This Fallout Shelter–Friendly 1960s Ham Spread

October 13, 2023

In 1961, in the midst of widespread panic over possible nuclear war with the Soviet Union, food editor Marie Adams published a timely recipe column in the Charlotte News. The column—originally titled “Can You Make an Appetizing Meal in Your Cellar?”—focused on meals you could make in a fallout shelter, using the emergency supply of nonperishable goods that families were expected to stockpile for an anticipated two weeks underground. Adams’s column was far from unique. Women’s magazines and government-sponsored...

Where Humans Think Aliens Are Most Likely...

October 13, 2023

Until humanity makes contact with some genuine extra-terrestrials, the aliens we invent will say more about us than about them. By extension, the same goes for where we first encounter these imaginary off-worlders. These maps show the locations of alien first contacts on Earth in almost a century of popular films, from Algol (1920), a Faust-from-outer-space parable made in Weimar Germany; to Annihilation (2018), a reflection on America’s loss of faith in the future of humankind. The rules: Each...

Casa de los Lagartos (Lizards House) in...

October 13, 2023

Casa de los Lagartos, located at number 1 on Calle Mejía Lequerica is one of the historic structures in the center of Madrid. On the outside of the building, you can spot a number of carved creatures—they’re technically salamanders, not lizards, but it’s too late to change the name of such an old building now. Spanish architect Benito González del Valle created the structure, which includes five floors of apartments, with three art studios at the top. Commercial spaces...

The Chiefseum in Manhattan, Kansas

October 13, 2023

Curt Herrman began building the Chiefseum after the Kansas City Chiefs won Super Bowl IV in 1970. He was just eight years old, and received a Chiefs football that year on his birthday. Every Christmas and birthday since, friends and family would send more Chiefs memorabilia. Over 50 years and more than 1,300 pieces of Kansas City Chiefs memorabilia later, Herrman has earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records and opens up his collection to anyone...

Ted Williams Tunnel Plaque in Boston, Massachusetts

October 13, 2023

When construction for the Ted Williams Tunnel began in 1991, it was the third in the city to travel underneath Boston Harbor, following the Sumner Tunnel in 1934 and the Callahan Tunnel in 1961. It was the first major link of the larger Central Artery/Tunnel Project, which became known as the Big Dig, and was plagued with controversy. The Big Dig became the most expensive highway project in U.S. history. The project was beset with delays, cost overruns, leaks,...

Foss Castle in Hutton Mulgrave, England

October 13, 2023

All that remains of Foss Castle is a prominent hill which was once part of a motte and bailey castle. The motte is a circular, man-made mound and the bailey would be the attached enclosures. Although now surrounded by woodland, when the castle was originally built in the 1070s, it would have been situated in a more open landscape. It is thought that the earthworks developed over several phases, the area had long-standing Anglo-Saxon links and the nearby church...

Moravian Book Shop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

October 13, 2023

Located in the historic downtown of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the Moravian Book Shop is the oldest continually operating bookstore in the whole world. The store opened in 1745 by Moravian Church missionaries who came from Germany to Bethlehem, PA, in 1741, and served to import and sell devotional and liturgical materials for the Moravian community. It later grew to include other denominations besides the Moravian. Faced with financial issues, the Moravian Church Northern Province wanted to get out of this retail business and...

Cuesta de Moyano in Madrid, Spain

October 13, 2023

Cuesta de Moyano, located near Madrid’s famous Retiro Park, holds immense significance for book lovers in the city. This charming cobblestone street is lined with a row of quaint bookstalls that have been a literary institution since the early 20th century (1925 is considered the year of its foundation). The street’s enduring appeal lies in its role as a haven for book enthusiasts, offering a diverse selection of new and secondhand books, including rare and out-of-print editions. Cuesta de...

Historic Wendover Airfield in Wendover, Utah

October 13, 2023

What’s the value of an atomic bomb if it can’t reach its target? At the height of the Manhattan Project, military planners and engineers devised a way to deliver the world’s first superweapons via retrofitted airplanes. Wendover Army Airfield, a remote installation in the Utah salt flats, was selected to implement this design. A massive steel-clad hangar concealed work on the secretive “Silverplate” B-29 bombers as crews trained for the first mission of its kind. Above the hangar, Colonel...

Büchmesser (Belly Measuring Column) in Strasbourg, France

October 13, 2023

Directly across Strasbourg Cathedral, on the corner of rue Mercière and place de la Cathédrale, see if you can pass the “belly test.” The Büchmesser, or mesureur de bedaine in French, was built in 1567. The pink sandstone column was used by City Council bigwigs to test their bellies after a night of feasting for Schwörtag, a day when they renewed their oaths to the constitution. This vow involved lots of wining and dining apparently. Schwörtag is still celebrated in the...

Compassionate Dharma Cloud Monastery in Morrison, Colorado

October 13, 2023

The late Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh had a profound impact on the spread of Buddhism to the West. This included the building of temples and monasteries beyond his native Vietnam and throughout the world. Together with the support of the Vietnamese-American community of Colorado, the Compassionate Dharma Cloud Monastery was built as a place of peace and meditation in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. The monastery sits on an old livestock farm and has been at this location since 2007....

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