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Five of Our Favorite Terrifying Podcast Episodes

November 3, 2023

There’s no secret: We here at Atlas Obscura love creepy stuff, and not just at Halloween time. Ghost stories, urban legends, mysterious happenings—we’ll take it. So to celebrate the longest possible time before another Halloween, this week we offered some of our absolute favorite creepy Atlas Obscura Podcast episodes, from a mysterious island where many dueled to the death to our own contributors’ most terrifying experiences in unusual places. So turn the lights off, get cozy, and prepare to...

Phở Hàng Trống in Hanoi, Vietnam

November 3, 2023

As the historical home of Vietnamese civilization, northern Vietnam is also the birthplace of the country’s national dish: the noodle soup phở. While the origins of phở are highly debated, the dish is believed to have originated in or around Hanoi, where it brought together the foods of Vietnam’s historic colonizers: rice noodles from the Chinese and beef from the French. In diasporic Vietnamese communities around the world, it’s more common to find southern-style phở with big, bold broth...

Jerry's Hat Museum in Forrest, Illinois

November 3, 2023

Stained glassed and church pews mingle with baseball caps with what appears to be a religious shrine to headwear, is Jerry’s Hat Museum, located inside a former Church of God in Forrest, Illinois. Jerry Roth grew up in the quaint town of Forrest, to local crop farmers. He has great memories of this town and says returning to the friendly faces inspired him to want to stay. So upon his retirement, after 40 years of management at a computer...

'Sami Swings' in Louisville, Kentucky

November 3, 2023

Cave Hill Cemetery is famous as home to the graves of Muhammad Ali, Colonel Sanders, and Mr. Magic, but there is also a unique memorial dedicated to a little girl named Samantha Ann “Sami” McDonald. The faithful McDonald family was struck by a tragedy on May 2, 2006, when a three-year-old Sami accidentally rode her tricycle into the family pool. Her tombstone was installed in Cave Hill Cemetery, with a life-size bronze sculpture of her riding a swing, the...

Bún Chả Hàng Quạt in Hanoi, Vietnam

November 3, 2023

Vietnamese food was thrust into the international spotlight when the late chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain joined President Barack Obama for a $6 dinner at a local canteen in Hanoi. The now-famous meal? Bún chả, an iconic pork noodle dish, washed down with cold beers. Bringing together bún (rice vermicelli noodles) and chả (pork patties), the dish is believed to have originated in the early 20th century in Hanoi—once described by 20th century Vietnamese food writer Vu Bang...

Ordering Off a 5,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Menu

November 3, 2023

Among the campus buildings at Rice University in Houston, Texas, one curious structure stands out. The first feature you’ll probably notice is that it’s made of reeds; but these are not just any reeds. They arrived inside a 40-foot shipping container, harvested and partly assembled by master artisans in the marshlands of southern Iraq, where structures like this one have been made for centuries. It’s called a mudhif, and for Iraq’s Marsh Arab ethnic minority, it’s a traditional village...

Phở Xào Bà Thanh Béo in Hanoi,...

November 3, 2023

Longtime phở aficionados may know that the word “phở” not only refers to the composed noodle soup, but also the flat rice stick noodles—or bánh phở—that are used in the dish. These noodles, which are similar to those used in pad Thai, can be leveraged in numerous ways. For this beloved street vendor in Hanoi, they form the base of phở xào, or stir-fried phở. While there are many different versions of stir-fried phở, this eatery has been offering...

Hikō Jinja—Shrine of Flight in Yawata, Japan

November 3, 2023

In 1889, a Japanese serviceman Ninomiya Chūhachi invented the concept of hikōki, an unmanned model aircraft, after witnessing a gliding crow. He failed to earn support from military higher-ups, but continued to work on his idea and successfully created a functioning four-bladed propeller in 1891. Now determined to invent the world’s first manned aircraft, Chūhachi struggled to raise research funds after leaving the army to work at a pharmaceutical company. In 1908, he was sufficiently financed and about to start...

Golden Gates in Warrington, England

November 3, 2023

Warrington is a relatively average, unspectacular industrial town in northwest England. While most of the buildings and sights within Warrington are relatively modest, the Golden Gates in front of Warrington Town Hall seem like a glittering anomaly in comparison to their surroundings. The ironwork structure, which is about 16.5 meters wide and 7.6 meters tall, consists of four pillars with a gate between the central two pillars and elaborate screens connecting the central and outer pillars. Each column is...

From Cursed Coconuts to Santa Claus, 6...

November 3, 2023

The Tuesday after the first Monday in November became Election Day in the United States largely by default. When uniform day for presidential elections was set in the 19th century, the country was mostly a Christian, rural, agrarian society. Sunday was for worship, Wednesday was a market day, and because some people would have to travel long distances to the polls, Monday and Thursday were out, too. So, Tuesday it became—specifically a Tuesday that wouldn’t conflict with the farming...

Hospitality Recruitment: Learn How to Recruit the...

November 3, 2023

A good hospitality recruitment strategy is at the very core of all success stories within the industry. Hospitality businesses want the best staff in place to provide great service, respond to customer needs, and make experiences positive and memorable. In this article, you can learn how to put the right processes in place, so you The post Hospitality Recruitment: Learn How to Recruit the Best Employees! appeared first on Revfine.com.

Antiche Miniere di Calcaferro in Calcaferro, Italy

November 2, 2023

A short and simple walk from the town of Mulina lies an abandoned mine that is in the midst of being taken over by nature. In what feels like a tropical rainforest, visitors will discover old mining equipment, stone buildings, and fresh-flowing water passes through the structures The walk is simple and a little over a mile (three-kilometer) hike in total and is accessible for all family members.

An Entire Continent Went Missing—But Scientists Have...

November 2, 2023

A continent the width of the U.S. has been missing for 155 million years. Scientists have long puzzled whether this chunk of northwest Australia has been either floating somewhere unseen, resting on the ocean floor, or slowly fusing to the underbelly of a larger landmass. Modern mapping largely ruled out the first two theories, but let’s say a 3,000-mile slab of terra firma did get lodged beneath another continent. Experts believe they would have at least been able to...

Foot Prints of King George lV in...

November 2, 2023

In 1821, the British king visited Howth on his 59th birthday, and while he was visiting the town, he was approached by local stone mason Robert Campbell who recorded the king’s footprints to commemorate the visit. He was the son of King George III and visited Howth on August 17 a few weeks after his coronation on July 19, 1821. He was supposed to arrive in Dun Laoghaire but accidentally landed in Howth. Dun Laoghaire was then renamed Kingstown...

Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania

November 2, 2023

Scranton, Pennsylvania is known as “The Electric City.” In 1880, Scranton became the first United States city to be lit by electricity and run a transit system made up of electric streetcars. Before the automotive industry decimated interurban trolley systems, they were prevalent throughout the northeastern and midwestern United States. Interurban electric trolleys provided a reliable form of transit. They were seen as modern and desirable during the late 19th and early 20th century, but by the 1950s few...

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