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Olympic Holidays hires former Classic Collection sales...

March 17, 2025

Starting in her new head of sales role on Wednesday (19 March), Edwards will be responsible for enhancing the Greece and Cyprus specialist’s market presence and further developing its partnerships within the travel trade sector. Edwards worked for several trade brands – including Not Just Travel, Hays Travel and Tui – before joining Classic Collection in August 2023. She left the trade-friendly brand last month. Her appointment comes after Olympic Holidays’ managing director Michael Vinales left the operator after...

Make Nowruz Magic With Samanu

March 17, 2025

This article is adapted from the March 15, 2025 edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. My boyfriend, Peyam, grew up celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year. We’re currently planning the menu for our second annual Nowruz party, and, as with many holidays, certain things just have to be on the table. Peyam insists that it’s not Nowruz without kuku sabzi, a frittata-like baked dish of herbs and eggs, and sabzi polo mahi, herbed...

The Color of St. Patrick's Day Wasn't...

March 17, 2025

This story was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under a Creative Commons license. St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer, and green rivers. So my students are often surprised when I tell them that St. Patrick’s Day was once a solemn feast day when you’d be far more likely to see the color blue. In fact, there’s even a...

Podcast: The Circus Capital of the World

March 14, 2025

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, hear how John Ringling traded his wooden clown shoes for a life of luxury—then lost it all after transforming Sarasota, Florida into a circus capital. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to an incredible site, and along the way you’ll meet some fascinating people...

For Sale: A 19th-Century Portrait Painted on...

March 13, 2025

At first glance, the painting appears almost ordinary. A male subject, his identity lost to the centuries, gazes solemnly out to the viewer from his oval frame, housed in a slightly yellowed paper card holder 5 inches in length and 6.25 inches in height. The details of lavish garments rendered in precise strokes from a woodcock feather brush are still clear, but the edges of the picture appear frayed—with good reason. This particular work was painted not on canvas,...

Xiaonanmen Fuzhou Fool’s Noodles in Taipei, Taiwan

March 13, 2025

A bowl of fool’s noodles might look unassuming, but its simplicity holds decades of history and cultural significance. Found in noodle shops across Taiwan, this dish consists of thin, chewy noodles tossed with scallions and a lightly seasoned oil-based sauce. Unlike most noodle dishes, it arrives at the table without toppings, and diners adjust the flavor themselves with black vinegar, chili oil, and spicy bean dregs. One of the most well-known spots for Fool’s Noodles is Xiaonanmen Fuzhou Fool’s Noodles,...

One Man’s Lifelong Quest to Create a...

March 13, 2025

In 1997—at the height of a wave of exposés, lawsuits, and public outrage against the tobacco industry—Puzant Torigian, a Hackensack, New Jersey-based entrepreneur, launched a new brand of cigarettes called Bravo. The factory he opened near the Atlanta International Airport to churn them out at scale attracted ample media attention. But this coverage was more positive than one might have expected. Torigian wasn’t actually involved in the dubious tobacco industry. Bravo cigarettes contained nothing but lettuce, dried and cured...

Sheffield Megatron in Sheffield, England

March 13, 2025

Constructed throughout the 1860s, the Megatron is a culvert upon which Sheffield Station—formally known as Midland Station—was built. Allowing an increase in transport to the burgeoning industrial centre, and covering the stinky sewer-filled waters, the culvert was an important architectural work that has long been forgotten. Today, visitors to the train station stand just feet above the Victorian tunnel network, but urban explorers and guided tours can take curious patrons down into the underground. A quick hop down into...

Rauchfangkehrermuseum (Wieden District Museum) in Vienna, Austria

March 13, 2025

In Vienna, a clean chimney is considered essential for ringing in the New Year. According to tradition, the chimney sweep is a perennial bringer of good luck and contentment, especially in winter when fireplaces blaze at full force. When a family knew their chimney was clean, domestic peace reigned, and their family could be sure of a safe and warm holiday, heralding a prosperous new year. In Vienna, the importance of having a professional class of chimney sweeps began when...

Shoden Island in Tokyo, Japan

March 13, 2025

Home to several national museums and a major zoo, as well as numerous temples and shrines, Ueno Park is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Tokyo. You’d think it’s been explored by tourists all over, and you couldn’t have been more wrong. The western portion of the park is home to the Shinobazu-no-ike, a lotus-covered natural pond; and at the heart of it is an artificial island built in the mid-17th century to accommodate the Benten-dō temple,...

Pianodrome in Edinburgh, Scotland

March 13, 2025

This eclectic entertainment complex was started by two like-minded artistic types Tim Vincent-Smith and Matthew Wright, in 2017. Their combined creative endeavors developed the world’s first theatrical amphitheater constructed entirely out of disused piano parts. A year later, their hard work of salvaging musical instruments from landfills was premiered, to great acclaim, at the city’s botanical gardens. Visitors can try playing the interactive musical sculptures, or enjoy musical performances hosted in a ring of seating made, of course, of dismantled pianos. For...

Puʻuloa Petroglyphs in Kalapana, Hawaii

March 13, 2025

Most people visit Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi to see sights related to the park’s volcanoes, including Halemaʻumaʻu Crater at the top of Kilauea and the various lava flows produced by Kilauea in recent decades. Given the destructive capacity of the recent volcanic activity, the park may seem like an unlikely location for an archaeological site, yet one of the most notable collections of petroglyphs within Polynesia can be found downslope from Kilauea’s summit. The site,...

National Taiwan Museum Bronze Oxen in Taiwan

March 13, 2025

For most visitors passing by the National Taiwan Museum, the two bronze oxen at the front entrance often go inadvertently unnoticed. Despite a sign that states “No Climbing,” children frequently turn the animals into an impromptu playground. The oxen originally belonged to the Taiwan Grand Shrine, the highest-ranking Shinto shrine in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. Located in Yuanshan, the shrine was dismantled after World War II, and the site was later repurposed into what is now the...

Møllehøj (Mill Hill) in Skanderborg, Denmark

March 13, 2025

Denmark is a notoriously flat country, with an average elevation of just 101 feet. As such, climbing its highest point is not a particularly strenuous feat. However, finding that elusive location has proven difficult. Møllehøj, what is currently considered the highest peak in the country, was identified in 2005, and only rises above the rest by an inch or so. Previously, Himmelbjerget, 10 miles to the northwest of Møllehøj, was regarded as the tallest mountain in the country. When...

JB Restaurant in Ljubljana, Slovenia

March 12, 2025

Janez Bratovž, aka JB, founded his eponymous, Michelin-recommended restaurant at a time when nouvelle cuisine was unknown in Yugoslavia. He learned his trade in Austria and introduced specialties like carpaccio and foams to a land of hearty but simple dishes. He’s been described as the godfather of fine dining in this part of the world and while Ana Roš is the highest profile Slovenian chef, her flagship restaurant is in a rural area near the Italian border, and JB...

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