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Gandantegchinlen Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

July 6, 2023

Gandantegchinlen, or Gandan as locals and visitors alike refer to it, was once one of the only permanent buildings in this city of tent-dwelling nomads. It served as the main Buddhist temple here until the communist era when religion was suppressed and most Buddhist temples in Mongolia were destroyed. The monastery was originally established in the early 19th century outside of Khüree (now known as Ulaanbaatar). Its name translates as ”the great place of complete joy.” The monastery complex is...

How the Pandemic Transformed Argentina’s Yerba Mate...

July 6, 2023

Years ago, in a bombed-out museum in La Plata, Argentina, I was offered yerba mate by a complete stranger. A winter chill whistled through the front wall left exposed by a tank, whilst a woman continued to warm water into her mate and offer it to those in the room. The hot burst of bitter liquid drew an invisible line connecting everyone in that gray, somber space. Mate is a caffeinated, tea-like infusion made from the dried leaves of...

French Cemetery in Yorktown, Virginia

July 6, 2023

You may have heard about the Normandy American Cemetery in France, where 9,388 U.S. soldiers are buried for their sacrifice to help liberate France. But in Virginia, at the battle site of the Siege of Yorktown (1781), there is a grave of some 50 French soldiers who lost their lives in that fight that resulted in the independence of the United States. Around 8,000 French soldiers joined the colonial soldiers fighting in Virginia, and along with 29 French warships,...

Beatles-Platz (Beatles Square) in Hamburg, Germany

July 6, 2023

The Beatles is one of the biggest bands of all time and we are all familiar with their classic hits such as “She Loves You,” “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” and “Can’t Buy Me Love.” Today, it’s hard to imagine there was a time before the Fab Four were rich and famous. However, in 1960, the lads were still mediocre, unknown teen performers struggling to get gigs in their hometown of Liverpool. So when offered a residency at...

Cossack Historic Town in Cossack, Australia

July 6, 2023

Situated in the heart of Australia’s Pilbara region at the mouth of the Harding River is the small historic town of Cossack. This once-abandoned area is steeped in history and in recent years the town’s buildings have been restored to allow visitors to step back in time. The history first started with the Ngarluma people, the local Aboriginal people who occupied the land for hunting and fishing for thousands of years. In 1863, a British-born Australian pioneer named Walter...

Meet the People Who Keep Vintage Rail...

July 6, 2023

Just after dawn, Amtrak’s Empire Builder passenger train pulls into the station at Whitefish, Montana, as it does every day on its cross-country journey from Seattle to Chicago. The train usually consists of two locomotives and a string of utilitarian passenger cars. But on this morning, two of the cars, directly behind the locomotives, disrupt that familiar conformity. Unlike the regular Amtrak cars, these ones look just like they did decades ago: One is polished stainless steel and the...

Caballero Rivero Woodlawn Cemetery in Miami, Florida

July 5, 2023

This Miami cemetery holds the remains of two Cuban presidents, a Nicaraguan president, and the senior Desi Arnaz. And it was once the resting place of the crown prince of Spain. The Caballero Rivero Woodlawn Cemetery in Miami holds a who’s who of Miami royalty, like the Merricks and the Brickells, founders of Coral Gables and the University of Miami, and creators of Brickell Avenue, respectively. Also lying beneath the cemetery’s manicured lawns and blindingly white mausoleums is a less...

Ludolph van Ceulen Memorial in Leiden, Netherlands

July 5, 2023

Pi is an irrational number with an infinite amount of decimals. While 3.14 is good enough for high school students and most engineers often use 4.0 just to be sure, there are actually a lot of uses for the rest of the decimals, primarily in cryptography. These days we know pi down to tens of trillions of decimals, but not too long ago calculating a few dozen could literally take a lifetime. Many people in history spent years of...

Tanglin Hill Brunei Hostel in Singapore

July 5, 2023

The Tanglin Brunei Hostel or Asrama Kerajaan Brunei di Singapura (AKBS), although largely unknown even to most locals, has a rich history as a residence for Bruneian students studying in Singapore. The hostel, now in a dilapidated state, was built in 1958 to accommodate the increasing number of students from Brunei that were sent for schooling abroad. This was common in the 1950s as Brunei was facing economic struggles and difficulties in setting up its own former education system....

How Milwaukee Is Celebrating the Typewriter’s Long,...

July 5, 2023

The Milwaukee folk punk band Nineteen Thirteen has showcased the talents of various musicians over the years, from cellist Janet Schiff to drummer Victor DeLorenzo, a founding member of the chart-topping, Milwaukee-based Violent Femmes. Recently, though, the band featured a guest musician playing a lesser-known instrument—the typewriter. “This was my first time playing the typewriter as a musical instrument, but hopefully not the last,” says poet Monica Thomas, who provided backup to Renee Bebeau’s percussion while typing a local...

Sofi Hamid in Qobustan, Azerbaijan

July 5, 2023

Camels, samovars, sewing machines, prayer beads, guns, cars, snakes, camels and fruits. What do these have in common? Fifty kilometers from Baku, hidden from the public eye, lies a mysterious place called Sofi Hamid. And this is the place where you will see all kinds of images from nature and daily life. If you would land there by helicopter, you would wonder: who was buried here? What do those symbols, images, and bright colors mean? Adding to this confusion,...

Spot the ISS and Other Satellites in...

July 5, 2023

Atlas Obscura’s Wondersky columnist Rebecca Boyle is an award-winning science journalist and author of the upcoming Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are (January 2024, Random House). Throughout the summer, she’ll be sharing the stories and secrets of our wondrous night sky. Sitting outside late at night, even after most people are asleep, provides a sense of togetherness like few other things I know. I have never been lonely...

Why Are There Three Twilights?

July 5, 2023

When the sun slides out of sight—or, more accurately, when Earth rotates so that your particular place on the planet is no longer exposed to our day star—but before darkness consumes the landscape, there is the magical, muted time of twilight. The word comes to us from the Old English twyelyghte, or half-light, when the vivid colors of the day fade to a shadow palette of grays. Of course, the colors don’t change, but our ability to discern them...

Wildfire Smoke Changes Orangutan Calls in Borneo

July 3, 2023

This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. Bornean orangutans are one of three orangutan species, all critically endangered. They thrive in carbon-rich peat swamp forests on the Indonesian island of Borneo. These habitats are also the sites of massive wildfires. Indonesian wildfires in 2015 caused some of the worst fire-driven air pollution ever recorded. The fires were driven by an El Niño climatic cycle, which caused especially dry weather in...

Podcast: Witches and Ritual Around the Globe

July 3, 2023

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this special partner episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, with Condé Nast Traveler‘s Women Who Travel Podcast, we visit Mexico to hear about the country’s long history of female healers and explore Denmark‘s brutal history of witch burnings. For more from Women Who Travel, visit their website Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll...

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