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When Town Council and a Sci-fi Museum...

October 15, 2020

It was a cold January morning in 2019 when an unfamiliar car rolled into Allendale, a small village nestled within the North Pennines in Northumberland County, England. This wasn’t unusual; in the prior three months the village had seen a fresh influx of visitors, ever since the grand opening of “Neil Cole’s Adventures in Science Fiction: Museum of Sci-fi.” The family-run business, with a menagerie of pop-culture intergalactic friends and foes in an impressive array of classic movie and...

Prison de Kara in Meknès, Morocco

October 15, 2020

Constructed during the early 18th-century during the reign of Sultan Ismail bin Sharif, the Kara Prison (or Habs Qara) is a vast subterranean prison in the city of Meknes, Morocco. Its most unusual feature is that it lacked doors and bars, but it’s believed that no one ever escaped. Its inescapability despite lacking bars and doors was due to its complex labyrinth-like design. It was named after a Portuguese prisoner who was granted freedom on the condition that he...

Salt & Pepper Museum in Larnaca, Cyprus

October 15, 2020

The island of Cyprus is known for its various offerings of exotic foods and cuisines. Now, tourists and locals alike can marvel at more than 20,000 ways to flavor their food at the Salt & Pepper Museum. Inside is one of the world’s largest collections of seasoning shakers. Every item in the museum comes from the private collection of Eitan Bar-On, whose oldest shaker dates back to 1703, and the most expensive is reportedly worth around $17,000. Other items on...

Spider Statue in Yerevan, Armenia

October 15, 2020

Yerevan can surprise the occasional visitor with its abundance of public art. One contemporary example is the spider statue in the city’s Charles Aznavour Square. Dedicated to the French Armenian singer Charles Aznavour, this square boasts a number of landmarks, including the Moscow Cinema, the Stanislavski Russian Theatre, and the giant spider. Upscale and austere, the surrounding buildings contribute to the charm of this work of art. The spider is made of recycled gears, pipes, springs, bolts, and other...

Eagle Cliffs in Sochi, Russia

October 15, 2020

Located in the mountains southeast of downtown Sochi, Eagle Cliffs (Орлиные скалы – Orlinyye skaly) provides a reasonably easy hiking experience. It’s complete with placid meadows, spectacular views across the Caucasus Mountains, waterfalls, and swimming holes. At the mountaintop is a statue of Prometheus, the Greek hero associated with the Caucasus region. Rising well over 1,300 feet (400 meters) above sea level, the cliffs were named for the eagles that breed across the landscape. The cliffs are well known among rock-climbers...

Büyük Han in Lefkoşa, Cyprus

October 15, 2020

Completed in 1572, Büyük Han is an exquisite example of Ottoman caravanserai architecture. Documents reveal that its original name was Yeni Han (New Inn). Due to the high number of patrons from Alanya, it became known as Alanyalılar Hanı, but during the 17th-century, a smaller inn was opened nearby. People began referring to the two places as the Small Inn and the Big Inn, or Büyük Hanı, which eventually became Büyük Han. The purpose of the caravanserai was to...

Landsorts Lighthouse in Landsort, Sweden

October 15, 2020

The village of Landsort is located in the southernmost region of Stockholm‘s archipelago. In the village and a beacon on the Baltic Sea is the Landsort lighthouse. The first lighthouse was constructed in 1658 but was destroyed by a fire. A royal decree to build a new, more resilient lighthouse made of stone was issued in 1666. The lighthouse was finally completed sometime during the 1680s. The new structure was designed to survive fires and turned out to be...

The Country That Still Considers Saddam Hussein...

October 14, 2020

In a yellow taxi in the Jordanian capital of Amman, a photo of Saddam Hussein dangles from Mustafa Khalid’s rear-view mirror. The dictator’s face is printed on one side of an air freshener; the other side shows Jordan’s late King Hussein. As Khalid drives through the packed city streets, the two faces seem to trade places. Before long, another image of Saddam appears, this time on a bumper sticker on a nearby car. Khalid, a 27-year-old Palestinian Jordanian, gets...

A Historical Dig Sheds Light on the...

October 14, 2020

On November 4, 1857, a notice appeared in the Cambridge Democrat, the local newspaper of Cambridge, Maryland. Submitted by one Dr. Alexander Hamilton Bayly, it offered a $300 reward for anyone who could locate and kidnap a 28-year-old woman named Lizzie Amby, whom Bayly had enslaved. She had fled Bayly’s house some days before, bound north, along with her husband, Nat; a bag of possessions; and Nat’s knife and pistol. The Ambys were just two members of a group...

Found: An Old Norse ‘Godhouse’ Fit for...

October 14, 2020

The village of Ose, tucked among Norway’s western fjords, is what one might call prime Scandinavian real estate, if you’re into the misty essence of storybooks and sagas. It’s not surprising then that there’s a market for new housing in the area, or that it once hosted temples to leading figures of the Norse pantheon. On the site of a forthcoming housing development, archaeologists from Norway’s University Museum of Bergen recently discovered structural remains of a pagan temple, or...

The York Ghost Merchants in York, England

October 14, 2020

Messrs Bloodworth, and McArthur, members of the Sorrowful Guild of Master Ghostmakers, opened this shop on York‘s famous Shambles street in 2019, with the intention of selling original York Ghosts. With the city considered one of the most haunted in the world (occasionally nicknamed The City of One Thousand Ghosts), it would make sense that many souvenirs contain phantasmagorical features. The York Ghost designs favor the more playful “bedsheet with two holes” depictions of ghosts. This tongue in cheek seriousness...

Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (Chilean Museum...

October 14, 2020

This collection of more than 3,000 pieces spans almost 100 different Latin American groups and 10,000 years of history. The artifacts, many of them donated by collector Sergio Larraín García-Moreno, are displayed in the beautifully restored, three-story Royal Customs House, which was constructed in 1807. In addition to everyday clothing and ceramics, some of the more unique pieces include ceramic whistling jars and a Chinchorro mummy from the Chilean northern coast dating to 1900 BC. Also throughout the museum,...

Mar Behnam Monastery in Iraq

October 14, 2020

During the 4th-century CE, King Senchareb of Nineveh commissioned the building of this monastery as an act of atonement for having killed his son, Behnam, and daughter Sarah for converting to Christianity. Behnam, was eventually sanctified, hence the title Mar, a title of sainthood in the Assyrian language. He and Sarah’s bodies were buried in a crypt at the monastery. The site quickly became a beacon for Christian pilgrims throughout the region. As a result, the monastery attracted several...

Chinhoyi Caves in Zimbabwe

October 14, 2020

Chinhoyi Caves National Park is a hidden gem not far from Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. Visitors to the park will find stunningly blue pools inside preserved limestone and dolomite caves. Inside the caves, the air becomes cool and damp and silence descends as one walks down to the water. Holes in the roof of the cave ushers in sunlight that illuminates the depths. One of the best parts of visiting the caves is that you’re likely to have them to...

Slepianskaya Waterway System in Minsk, Belarus

October 14, 2020

On the eastern side of the Belarusian capital city, the Slepianka or Slepnya River once flowed undisturbed on a meandering course through the countryside. With the arrival of urbanization, the city administration tamed this stream by rerouting its flow through a 13 mile (22 kilometers) concrete channel that runs through nine parks. The waterway is complete with 13 cascades that are each unique in their Brutalist design. Construction on the project began in 1981 and was completed in 1985....

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