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‘The Thief’ in Olomouc, Czechia

August 26, 2020

Erected along the facade of the Olomouc Museum of Art is a sculpture that draws crowds and certainly confuses locals. Erected in 2017, the installation features a robber escaping the museum with a prized piece of art in his rucksack. It also features various mechanisms that allow the sculpture to move and shout down to visitors as he dangles. It was created as a message to how often we are unaware of our daily surroundings. The sculpture appears to...

Hermitage of San Giovanni all’Orfento in Caramanico...

August 26, 2020

Arguably one of Central Italy‘s most spectacular hermitages, San Giovanni all’Orfento is located in a cliff above the wild and protected Orfento Valley, one of the nature reserves within the Majella National Park in Abruzzo. Peter of Morrone, the famous Pope Celestine V (who, as a former hermit, resigned from his position only to be later imprisoned by his successor Boniface VIII), is said to have retired here between 1284 and 1293. His goal was to seek solitude in...

Casa Sirena Seaside Resort in Oxnard, California

August 26, 2020

Constructed in 1972, Casa Sirena was the brainchild of local hotel magnate Martin V. “Bud” Smith. Located in the heart of Channel Islands Harbor, the seaside resort once boasted 274 rooms, including a spacious lobby, pool, hot tub, and countless other amenities. In 1976, a 90-room annex was completed next door to accommodate Casa Sirena’s seasonal crowds. In 2006, Casa Sirena was redeveloped, and its annex was rebranded as a Hampton Inn that remains in operation to this day....

Caglieron Caves in Fregona, Italy

August 26, 2020

The Caglieron Caves (Grotte del Caglieron) are located near the town of Fregona, in Veneto, Northern Italy. The cave complex consists of various cavities, some of which are natural, while others have artificial origins. The natural part of the caves, which is actually a gorge, was incised by the Caglieron stream over millions of years. The torrent flows on calcareous conglomerates and marl creating various waterfalls, some of which are several feet high. A wooden path crosses the entire...

The Strange Afterlife of a Mysterious Tomb...

August 26, 2020

The drama in Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park in Israel is not apparent on the surface. It is down below. The park, approximately 120 acres, holds the excavated remains of two ancient cities—Beit Guvrin and Maresha—where much of life and death took place underground. This fertile area in the Judean foothills, known as “The Land of a Thousand Caves,” consists of a thin crust of hard rock on top of a layer of soft chalk, which allows for easy excavation...

The Electrifying Science of Jellyfish Sprites, Explained

August 25, 2020

In the early morning hours of July 2, 2020, something beautiful and strange was brewing in the sky over western Texas. A forceful storm had built, and a little after 1:30 a.m., a Nikon Z6 camera at the McDonald Observatory, in the Davis Mountains, spotted a reddish-pink formation on the horizon, some 100 miles to the southeast. It was searingly bright and seemed to have dangly bits, like gossamer tentacles on a sea creature decked out for a rave....

A Massive Earthquake Is Coming to Cascadia—And...

August 25, 2020

If you look at a world map, Cascadia is shaped like a whale swimming south. British Columbia’s temperate rainforest forms the bulk of its body, along with Washington state, Idaho, and much of Oregon. Mountainous Vancouver Island is the pectoral fin. The tail extends north to the southern tip of Alaska, and the whale’s open mouth, facing south, just catches northern California. Tall, dense forests of pine, spruce, and cedar blanket the bioregion. Aquatic species, from barnacles to sea...

Prästens Badkar (The Priests Bathtub) in Simrishamn,...

August 25, 2020

When thinking of a volcano, one probably envisions a giant mountain, with tufts of smoke rising from the top. This is not always the case however, especially if the volcano is created on a sandy beach and is also underwater. The Priest’s Bathtub is the result of an artesian aquifer erupting millions of years ago. An artesian aquifer is a source of water that is trapped between two impenetrable layers of soil, like clay. This puts pressure on the...

Kozukappara Execution Grounds in Arakawa City, Japan

August 25, 2020

The Kozukappara Execution Grounds were established in 1651 in the city of Edo, known today as Tokyo, during the days of the samurai. The site was named as one of the Three Major Execution Grounds of Edo, along with Suzugamori and Ōwada. Reportedly, around 200,000 people were put to death here until it was closed in 1873 in order to match the human rights standards of the west. Generally, prisoners were crucified, burned at the stake, or beheaded with...

The Mountains Where Manna Flows From Trees

August 25, 2020

Giulio Gelardi walks from tree to tree, making precise incisions on each one with a billhook. He’s surrounded by 100 acres of ash trees, and each cut reveals white sap that also coats fishing lines he has hung from collection points on the branches. Overnight, the sap dries into stalactites that Gelardi plucks and places in a basket. Dark clouds roll in above. “If it rains too much, it could mean the end of the season,” he explains. “I...

Sigtuna Rådhus (City Hall) in Sigtuna, Sweden

August 25, 2020

A town hall is often intended to represent the city that it is in—a point of local pride, as large as possible given the local finances. But when the town is tiny and money short? You might just end up with Europe’s smallest city hall. Sigtuna was once the capital of Sweden and one of the country’s biggest and most bustling cities. However, that was a millennium ago, and the capital has since moved twice, to from Uppsala and...

Serbia’s Rocky Statue in Žitište, Serbia

August 25, 2020

Everybody know that Philadelphia has a Rocky Balboa statue—it is a part of Atlas Obscura and one of the more popular sights in the City of Brotherly Love. There was another, a replica, in San Diego that was bought at auction by a private collector in 2017—who turned out to be Sylvester Stallone himself. And then there’s a third one—in Žitište, Serbia. Not a copy of the A. Thomas Schomberg original, it was made by Croatian sculptor Boris Staparac in...

Churchill Tank in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland

August 25, 2020

Along the Carrickfergus promenade sits a restored Churchill MK VII Tank from World War II. The tank was originally designed and produced by Belfast’s Harland and Wolff factory during the war. However, during The Blitz, Belfast and other parts of the United Kingdom decided to move certain manufacturing operations to safer locations. One location was Carrickfergus. Along the Woodburn Road, these types of tanks and others such as the Matilda and Centaur series were constructed. The Churchill MK VII...

Abandoned Bunkers of Salpalinja in Virolahti, Finland

August 25, 2020

In the early 1940s, between the Winter War and the Continuation War, tensions were high in Finland. The Soviets could invade, seemingly, at any moment. As a result, in 1940, Finland began the construction of Salpalinja (the “Salpa Line”), a system of more than 700 field fortifications made from concrete or excavated from rock along Finland’s eastern border. Stretching 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) from the Gulf of Finland in the south to modern-day Pechengsky, Russia, in the north, Salpalinja consisted...

On Streets and Subways in South Korea,...

August 24, 2020

On a foggy July morning in Seoul, 76-year-old Moo-Dae was sitting on a bench in the belly of the Saejeol metro station when he felt the need to write a poem. In the humid summer heat, he was imagining a lonely winter scene: a woman sitting by a flickering candle in the 1970s, waiting for her husband to come home. “I wanted to write about loneliness,” Moo-Dae recalls a few days later, in his native Korean. His real name...

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