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Montour Preserve Fossil Pit in Danville, Pennsylvania

October 31, 2023

Located In rural Danville, Pennsylvania, the Montour Preserve was dedicated as a nature area in 1972. When parking areas were being built for the preserve, part of a hillside was dug out to use as fill. The hillside consisted of shale from the Mahantango Formation. This rock is rich in Devonian-era marine fossils, from an era when Pennsylvania was covered by a warm, shallow sea. When this fossil-rich shale was discovered, The Montour Fossil Pit was established. The dug-out...

Matz Farmstead Ruins in Cross Plains, Wisconsin

October 31, 2023

First settled in 1840, Cross Plains, Wisconsin is a small town approximately 15 miles west of Madison, the state capital city. A 1920 edition of the Wisconsin State Journal described the town as “nestled in a narrow valley, hemmed in by frowning bluffs.” Situated atop part of these frowning bluffs are the remnants of the Matz Farmstead, which consists of two desolate stone structures, the only remains of German-born settler Friedrich Matz’s built legacy. Located in the Dane County...

Longstreet Cemetery in Ozark, Alabama

October 31, 2023

When the U.S. Army decided to move helicopter operations to Alabama in August 1942 they built a new base, Fort Rucker, now Fort Novosel. But there was a problem. People had settled here a hundred years earlier and over time buried a number of loved ones in cemeteries near their settlements. To show respect to those buried there, the federal government and Holman Funeral Home worked together to move the cemeteries to Ebenezer Baptist Church, which was founded in...

Ritualcravt in Wheat Ridge, Colorado

October 31, 2023

Ritualcravt has been a unique hub for the witchcraft community in Colorado since 2015. The storefront is run by a coven of House Witches who work in a wide variety of folk magic traditions. They curate one of the largest collections of ritual tools, metaphysical wares, occult objects, oddities, rarities, and apothecary goods; as well as a massive library of books on folk magic topics. They are also home to Ritualcravt School, which offers classes and workshops on witchcraft...

Sator Square in Brusaporto, Italy

October 31, 2023

Along the wall enclosing the remains of a castle is an unusual stone. It is squared-shaped, and it bears a grid with the following words readable both horizontally and vertically: SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA, and ROTAS. These words can be read backwards, so that SATOR is ROTAS written backwards, AREPO is OPERA written backwards, and TENET, being at the middle of the five-letter square, is a palindrome itself. Another feature of this stone is that the initials of these...

Saranac Laboratory Museum in Saranac Lake, New...

October 31, 2023

Nestled in the Adirondacks is the village of Saranac Lake (which, interestingly enough is actually along the shores of Flower Lake– though a lake called Saranac Lake is nearby.) The history of the village is deeply intertwined with one of humanity’s most deadly foes: tuberculosis. For much of human history, there were no effective treatments for tuberculosis. The Victorian era saw great advances in medicine, including some early treatments for the disease. In Prussia, Hermann Brehmer was pioneering the...

Watlao Buddhamamakaram Temple in Columbus, Ohio

October 31, 2023

Tucked away in Bexley, a suburb of Columbus, the Watlao Buddhamamakaram Buddhist Temple was built in 2009 to support the Laotian and Thai Buddhists in the eastern Columbus area. It’s a Theravada temple built in the traditional South East Asian style. From afar, the most noticeable aspect of the temple is its color. Having recently undergone renovations, the building shines in colorful hues of green, red, blue, and gold. Up close, though, one can see the full extent of...

Celebrating the Food of West Africa, Vegan-Style

October 31, 2023

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE OCTOBER 28, 2023, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. As some of West Africa’s many cuisines gain international recognition, chefs, cookbook authors, and food vloggers from the region find themselves battling generalizations. One is that West African food centers around animal protein: stewed beef tripe, smoky dried fish, spicy meat skewers. Meat consumption in West Africa has increased over time due to many factors, including wider access...

Utah Teapot in Mountain View, California

October 31, 2023

At the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, a rather out-of-place artifact is exhibited. To those unfamiliar, it’s only an ordinary Melitta-brand teapot—but if you know, you know. In the world of computer graphics, this item, usually referred to as the Utah teapot or Newell teapot, is recognized as a 3D test model that has become a standard reference object and a popular in-joke within the community, sometimes making an appearance in movies and TV shows (especially in...

Explore the Insidious Secrets of This Haunted...

October 31, 2023

Lipstick-stained cigarettes line a grimey bathroom sink. In the kitchen, a pink fridge is covered with news clippings, old photos, and rust spots. It sits open just a crack, enough to see the rancid food, pet carcasses, and bedpan inside. Across the house, a balding cat is curled up on a distressed pink loveseat in an arsenic green parlor. Despite the cobwebs and peeling wallpaper, the house isn’t abandoned. Rather, it’s freshly furnished, and is still being added to...

7 Supernatural Spots You Can Only Find...

October 31, 2023

From a former slaughterhouse-turned-haunted honky tonk to a mystical shop packed with magic potions, a tavern with spine-tingling ghost stories, and futuristic houses and alien carvings, there’s no shortage of eccentric and spooky spots in Northern Kentucky. Here are eight otherworldly spots you can’t miss. 1. Bobby Mackey’s Music World Known as “the most haunted nightclub in America,” Bobby Mackey’s Music World is located in a small northwest Kentucky town fittingly named Wilder. Though today Mackey, a Kentucky native...

The World’s Only Ventriloquism Museum is in...

October 31, 2023

In the small town of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, hundreds of dummies – from Shari Lewis’s playful puppet “Lamb Chop” to Jeff Dunham’s fuzzy, purple “Peanut” – line the walls of the only museum in the world dedicated to the art of ventriloquism. Vent Haven Museum opened in 1973, spawned from the personal collection of founder W. S. Berger, who spent many hours backstage with his father, who was a stage actor. While...

The Family Recipes That Live On in...

October 31, 2023

On a clear day at Nome City Cemetery, you can watch planes take off over the Bering Sea. Within the field of white graves, you might also see a small black obelisk that shines brilliantly when it catches the sun. Getting closer, you’ll note an unmistakable symbol engraved near its base. It’s not a cross, nor a Star of David, but a sacred container of sorts in many American households: a tub of Cool Whip. The grave belongs to...

Gastro Obscura’s Guide to the Northern Kentucky...

October 31, 2023

Dive into a world filled with flavor and incredible stories at these buzzy stops along The B-Line® bourbon trail – a collection of bourbon distilleries, bars, and restaurants located in Northern Kentucky, across the river from Cincinnati. Relative newcomers stock hard-to-find vintage bourbons and whiskeys, while generations-old distillers produce today just as those who’ve come before them. You’ll also find elevated restaurants that impress with farm-to-table menus infused with the area’s signature bourbon. The blend of innovation, heritage, and...

Isobel Gowdie and the Untold History of...

October 31, 2023

In Atlas Obscura’s Q&A series She Was There, we talk to female scholars who are writing long-forgotten women back into history. In the quiet town of Forres in northern Scotland, jammed between a sidewalk and a stone wall, sits the Witches Stone. Above the worn, wedge-shaped boulder, a sign erected in the 1930s recounts a gruesome execution of a person convicted of witchcraft: The accused was rolled down a hillside in a barrel laden with spikes, their “mangled” remains...

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