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Agawa Canyon Wilderness Park in Sault Ste....

July 15, 2020

Being the inspiration behind many of the Group of Seven’s famous paintings, the Agawa Canyon Wilderness Park is a remote wonder in one of Ontario‘s most rugged landscapes. The park is only accessible by a train that departs from Sault Ste. Marie every morning. During the train ride to the canyon, the train commentary details various points of interest across the vast landscape and shares some of the interesting history of the region. Once the train stops at the...

Why ‘Nature Is Healing’ Might Be the...

July 14, 2020

This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nature has been showing up in places you never expected. Dinosaurs roaming Times Square? A bunch of Lime scooters abandoned in a lake? According to the internet, the appropriate response to these situations is “Nature is healing.” The memes started in earnestness. As the coronavirus pandemic tightened its grip on our lives earlier this year, people were suddenly stuck in their homes....

ROCC Mars Yard in Turin, Italy

July 14, 2020

Soil from Mount Vesuvius was used to turn a piece of Italy into Mars. This powdery reddish dirt, called pozzolana, has been known since antiquity for its unique properties. Romans used it to build their temples and monuments, and today scientists and engineers used it to simulate the surface of the Red Planet. Around 150 tons of pozzolana were brought from near Naples to fill the main arena of a new test facility commissioned by the European Space Agency...

Ricetto of Candelo in Candelo, Italy

July 14, 2020

During the Middle Ages, a ricetto was a common structure found in Italian villages. It’s deemed a fortified area used to store agricultural products, livestock, and working tools but was also often utilized as a fort for protection. The ricetto of Candelo, in Piedmont, is the best-preserved example of such a structure. Dating to the late Medieval period, the area is crossed by narrow roads that run between tightly packed buildings. It’s almost completely surrounded by its original walls,...

‘Ghost Houses’ Haunt a Rapidly Aging Japan

July 14, 2020

In municipalities across Japan sit an increasing number of forgotten, dilapidated homes known as “ghost houses.” Despite the name and oft-eerie appearance, however, these are not haunted houses in need of an exorcism. Rather, ghost houses, or akiya as they are known in Japanese, are abandoned homes that towns cannot get rid of through demolition or resale. Impacting rural towns the hardest as young residents flock to the country’s major cities, the glut of ghost homes has prompted some...

Varoško Groblje in Kragujevac, Serbia

July 14, 2020

Kragujevac was the most important city for the automobile industry in Serbia. The Zastava factory produced various car models, mostly licensed by Fiat, and employed more than 10,000 workers. In the city of Kragujevac toward the end of the 20th-century, it wasn’t uncommon to have a family member or neighbor that worked at Zastava. Although the factory has since sold to Fiat and changed its name, most of the local residents still call it Zastava. It remains the city’s...

Miniatures & Curious Collections Museum in Roswell,...

July 14, 2020

Miniatures & Curious Collections Museum is a breath of fresh air in a town otherwise obsessed with alien imagery. According to one of the volunteers, this museum was started when the children of a Roswell-area miniature collectors group inherited the fruits of their parent’s hobby. The museum is filled with miniature diorama displays, along with miniature collections of mismatched proportions and styles. There is also a bizarre small-to-large foot sculpture display that adds to the charming confusion of this obscure...

Berobero no Kamisama in Kochi, Japan

July 14, 2020

Kochi Prefecture is known for its sake. Once a year, during the Tosa no Okyaku Festival, 18 sake brewers from across the prefecture bring seemingly endless bottles to Kochi City, so young and old can toast to the joys of the drink. Watching over the event is Berobero no Kamisama, the God of Drunkards. This extraordinary naked god, who is clearly three sheets to the wind, is a beloved mascot for sake fans in Kochi. Throughout the festivities, people pay...

Museo Menonita (Mennonite Museum) in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc,...

July 14, 2020

Opened in December 2001, this museum tells the story of the Mennonite colonies of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Mennonites are considered the most numerous of the Christian Protestant denominations known as Anabaptists. Of Central European origin, the group also includes similar groups such as the Amish, and tend to be known for a shunning of several types of modern technology and generally only using modern machinery for essential tasks. By some estimations, the world’s largest Mennonite population is...

Sleight Family Graveyard in Staten Island, New...

July 14, 2020

An abandoned cemetery on a slender rise in Staten Island, one of New York City’s five boroughs, has many names. The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission called it the Sleight Family Graveyard when it designated the parcel a landmark in 1968. The earliest gravestone is for Jacob Sleight, who died on June 20, 1751, which may explain the nomenclature. Other early settlers of the island and their descendants are interred here—the Seguine family makes up around half of the graves—and...

Meet the Former Cook Who Draws His...

July 13, 2020

A marbled slice of tonkotsu pork rests on a bed of yellow noodles, nestled next to three shiny green sheets of nori, some boiled spinach, and a few shreds of kikurage, or wood-ear mushroom. A pair of disposable chopsticks raises a tangle of noodles above the red bowl, as if headed to a waiting mouth just off the edge of the page. A description of the meal is printed next to the drawing, along with the price, date, and...

Schaezler Fountain in Augsburg, Germany

July 13, 2020

Adjacent to the city forest, the Siebentischanlagen is actually a separate, manmade landscape park. After the park was constructed on former farmland in 1908, a fountain known as Schaezler Fountain was designed to honor Baron Edmund von Schaezlerr, one of the donors responsible for the park. The fountain itself was also part of a so-called “Green Basilica”. The location of oak trees denote the outer walls of a church and the fountain marks the location of the altar. It’s said...

Arroyo Bird Park in San Juan Capistrano,...

July 13, 2020

Not much is known about this eclectic place, but just off the beaten path along the San Juan Creek, at the intersection of Calle Arroyo and Via Sonora, sits a tiny little folk/outsider art installation. It’s comprised of fake evergreen trees, dozens of handmade birdhouses, gnomes, little Buddha statues, blown glass sculptures, and a myriad of other trinkets people have left behind. At the park is a little free library encouraging people to take a book, return a book,...

Bashamichi Station Concourse in Yokohama, Japan

July 13, 2020

Passengers who get off the train at Bashamichi Station, Yokohama, may notice an unusual assortment of antiques covering the brick wall in its concourse. The display includes vault doors, safe deposit boxes, heating radiators, a sectional boiler, a lattice door, and even segments of handrails from a staircase. An information plaque accompanies the exhibit, detailing the previous lives of each artifact. Most of the items on display come from the annex building of the Bank of Yokohama, which was...

Beecher Island in Wray, Colorado

July 13, 2020

Due to the demobilization of the U.S. Army following the Civil War, it was stretched thin in the western territories, where conflicts flared up as more and more settlers moved into Native American land. In 1868, General Phillip Sheridan decided to try a novel approach in the Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska area. He charged an aide, Major George Forsyth of the 9th Cavalry, to gather “fifty first-class hardy frontiersmen, to be used as scouts against the hostile Indians.” The...

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