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Lumiang Cave in Sagada, Philippines

September 22, 2020

The Lumiang Cave is home to 100 ancient coffins. Stacked one on top of the other, these coffins form an eye-catching wall at the entrance of the cave that rises nine layers high. It has been estimated that the oldest coffins are around 500 years old. The coffins were placed at the entrance to protect them from the elements, but in the same token, so they could receive daylight that wards off evil spirits that may disturb these souls’...

Exploring Chernobyl’s Imprint on Neighboring Belarus

September 22, 2020

This story is excerpted and adapted from Darmon Richter’s new book, Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide. The Chernobyl disaster technically took place in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine, but radioactive contamination hardly respects geopolitical borders—especially the border with Belarus, a scant six miles from the site of the meltdown. Roughly two-thirds of the territory of Belarus suffered significant contamination, and within two years of the disaster, the Belarusian government had designated the most toxic area, along the Ukrainian border...

General Sickles’s Wound Marker in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

September 22, 2020

General Sickles was an interesting man. He was a successful lawyer and politician, as well as one of the Union’s leading political generals. He commanded the forces at Gettysburg that nearly cost the Union the battle. Before the war, Daniel Sickles was more well known as a career Congressman and lawyer. In 1859, he discovered his wife had an affair with Phillip Barton Key II, son of Francis Scott Key. In a cold fit of rage, he assassinated Phillip,...

The Newest Addition to Denmark’s Happiness Museum:...

September 21, 2020

When Katie Diez talks to me from her home in rural Oregon, the world is red with smoke. It’s mid-September, and wildfires have been raging across the West Coast for weeks. “The air quality is in the hazardous level,” says Diez. “I keep looking out the window hoping that the smoke will start to clear.” Inside Diez’s home, however, life blossoms. Diez is a pediatric occupational therapist and the cofounder of Comfort Seeds, an initiative that uses gardening to...

Botswana Says It’s Solved the Mystery of...

September 21, 2020

This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Hundreds of elephants died in Botswana earlier this year from ingesting toxins produced by cyanobacteria, according to government officials who say they will be testing waterholes for algal blooms next rainy season to reduce the risk of another mass die-off. The mysterious death of 350 elephants in the Okavango Delta between May and June baffled conservationists, with leading theories suggesting they...

Alpine Inn in Portola Valley, California

September 21, 2020

Though the Alpine Inn is considered the site of history’s first internet transmission, this tavern is definitely more Wild West than World Wide Web. A former San Jose mayor built the bar in 1852 on a roadside in the Portola Valley, an ideal spot to avoid various city ordinances against drinking and gambling. Though it passed through various names and hands over the years, it was always a favorite with locals, especially the local Stanford students. But when a...

Slumgullion Earthflow in Lake City, Colorado

September 21, 2020

Designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1983, this relatively young and still active slide is one of the best examples of a rare geologic phenomenon known as “mass wasting” in the world. Centuries ago, a portion of the Lake City caldera broke off of Mesa Seco and started moving down the steep slopes of the Lake Branch of the Gunnison River. Unlike many other slides, this was a slow-moving mass of materials known as mass flow or earth...

Isthmia Prime Hotel in Isthmia, Greece

September 21, 2020

An overlooked Brutalist gem, the Isthmia Prime Hotel was built in the late 1960s by two friends, composer Iannis Xenakis and urban planner Panos Spiliotakos. Xenakis was a Greek artist and composer with a degree in engineering. Escaping the horrors of the Greek Civil War in 1947, he worked under the architect Le Corbusier in Paris. Xenakis helped design the Unite D’Habitation and Couvent De La Tourette projects, two of the most recognized Brutalist architecture sites worldwide. It was...

Gideon Green Memorial Stone in Newtownabbey, Northern...

September 21, 2020

Within Hazelbank Park sits a memorial stone dedicated to a Huguenot Soldier named Gideon Bonnivert. The diaries he wrote recorded the historic landings of King William III’s (“William of Orange”) massive European Army in 1690. His army went on to defeat King James VII of Scotland and Ireland at the Battle of The Boyne near the town of Drogheda on July 1, 1690. Gideon Bonnivert’s diary containing his accounts of the landing can be found at the British Museum in...

Abandoned WWII Structures of Motutapu Island in...

September 21, 2020

On the small island of Motutapu, a complex of bunkers, tunnels, and observation posts stands abandoned, left over from the 1940s and preparations for an invasion that never came. In the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people, Motutapu means “sacred island of Taikehu” (a reference to a Maori ancestor). Located adjacent to the volcanic Rangitoto Island, it was a home and important site for centuries, and the Department of Conservation and the Motutapu Restoration Trust oversee a network of archaeological sites that date...

What Candy Can Teach Us About the...

September 21, 2020

After refusing to marry the son of a local chieftain, a young woman named Ashima was kidnapped by her spurned suitor and carried into the wilderness. Her true love, Ahei, saved the day by defeating the abductor in a three-day singing match, but on the ride back to their village, Ashima drowned in a flood. This, according to Chinese lore, is the origin of the iconic Shilin Stone Forest’s Ashima Stone, a monolithic rock formation that resembles a kerchiefed...

Fresh Concrete Turns Paw Prints and Bird...

September 18, 2020

Cities have many layers. Pigeons swoop from one roof to another. Work crews descend beneath the asphalt to tend to sewers and gas pipes. And between the aboveground and subterranean realms, dogs, humans, squirrels, rats, and other creatures pad down the street, leaving traces behind. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, the concrete itself will be speckled with small, serendipitous impressions. In this way, urban sidewalks can hold modern trace fossils—proof of a creature that happened to pass by at precisely...

Capturing Ellis Island’s Lost Period

September 18, 2020

From the early-20th-century photos of Lewis Hine to movies such as The Godfather Part II, images of crowds and faces from all over the world enduring long journeys by ship to build new lives in America have been associated with a particular destination: Ellis Island. When the facility on an island in New York Harbor first opened its doors to receive hopeful immigrants—”your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” in the words of poet Emma...

Monuments Garden in Edinburgh, Scotland

September 18, 2020

Hidden amid this region, located near the rear of the Museum of Edinburgh, lies a tranquil courtyard comprised of various pieces of stonework. They are compiled from various buildings that no longer exist or were saved from being tossed into the rubbish heap. The garden is divided into two spaces. The interior consists of a few select items ranging in time periods and subject matter. There is also an interactive machine that allows you to explore the history of...

Green Cay Nature Center and Wetlands in...

September 18, 2020

Wetlands are some of the most productive ecosystems in the world, providing habitats for numerous species of plants and animals. They also filter pollutants and excess nutrients from the water. Over the past few decades, humans have learned to appreciate the value of wetlands. Many cities and towns have incorporated these unique places into their urban environments. Green Cay is an artificial lake and marsh constructed on former farmland. The land’s original owners, Ted and Trudy Winsberg, sold the...

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