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Nicholas-Beazley Aviation Museum in Marshall, Missouri

April 29, 2024

Marshall, Missouri, was once a hotbed of flight innovation. It’s home of the historic Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company, founded in 1921 by two flight visionaries who started their business by upselling airplane propellers and other parts. Eventually, Russell Nicholas and Howard Beazley’s company expanded into plane production. The company also had the best-equipped and world’s largest civilian flying school of its time, with over 3,000 students. Parts for the Spirit of St. Louis, the aircraft made famous by Charles Lindbergh for...

Podcast: Atlas Obscura Presents 'Windsor Hum' From...

April 29, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we present a tale from Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast that reveals the stories behind the world’s most recognizable and interesting sounds. On their show, they’ve explored topics such as the sounds of other planets, the mind blowing ways that insects communicate, and secret spy messages that are broadcast on the radio. In this episode, they take you...

Explore Sinister Spring Tales with Atlas Obscura

April 29, 2024

We’ve been missing Halloween at Atlas Obscura, so we decided to bring a little horror into early summer: Welcome to Rites of Spring, a curated collection of frights from around the world. Over the next week, we’ll take you to the vast, arid deserts of the Gobi in search of the Mongolian death worm. We’ll dive beneath the Pacific to witness the horrors of the 600-pound King Octopus. We’ll gaze at the immortal horror of Haxan, the groundbreaking 1920s...

The Atlas Obscura Crossword: Three-Bagger

April 29, 2024

This week’s Atlas Obscura puzzle comes to us from the students in Atlas Obscura’s Creating Crossword Puzzles course in March 2024, along with their instructors, expert crossword creators Brooke Husic and Natan Last. If you’re interested in learning how to create a crossword puzzle like this one, the next course is scheduled to start on September 10, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET. Enroll here! You can solve this week’s puzzle below, or download it in .pdf or .puz. Happy...

You Can Still Die From World War...

April 26, 2024

In some parts of France, World War I has never ended. These are the Zones rouges—an archipelago of former battlegrounds so pockmarked and polluted by war that, more than a century after the end of hostilities, they remain unfit to live or even farm on. WWI was the first industrial war and a laboratory for all kinds of military innovations, including the first use of tanks and poison gas. Both the German and the Allied war machines belched out...

Wild Life: Synchronized Coral Spawning

April 26, 2024

Each week, Atlas Obscura is providing a new short excerpt from our upcoming book, Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders (September 17, 2024). Once a year, the corals of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef pull off an orgy so massive it can be seen from space. Warmed by the water, tugged by the tides, and sparked by the full moon, coral polyps release eggs and sperm in a vast cloud. The buoyant bundles of gametes rise...

Jean Trogneux in Amiens, France

April 26, 2024

Macarons may be distinctly French confections, but they’re far from monolithic. In addition to the famous Parisian macaron, there are several other key regional variants. One particular kind is the macaron d’Amiens, which, as its name suggests, is a specialty from the city of Amiens in the Picardy region. Introduced in the 16th century and said to have been a favorite sweet of Catherine de’ Medici, macarons d’Amiens are traditionally made from raw almonds, apricot marmalade, honey and vanilla....

Hong Kong's Colonial Post Boxes in Hong...

April 26, 2024

There’s no shortage of British colonial history in Hong Kong, with rule spanning over 150 years, these post boxes serve as a subtle reminder of the British postal services during its time. In 1892, 14 pillar boxes were installed across the city—12 during King George V’s reign and two more during King George VI’s reign. After the British handover, the once-red post boxes were painted green. (However, some have retained their original color due to being retired). Of the original...

The Piece of Cheese Cottage in Hastings,...

April 26, 2024

The story of the Piece of Cheese Cottage began in 1878, when it was built on a small piece of land left over by two brothers, George and Stephen Starr, after they had built nine cottages. The cottage is situated on an awkward plot, and the two brothers made a wager of £5 (equivalent to about £300 in 2024), that a functional building could not be built on such a plot. However, they proved themselves wrong, and England’s only...

Circus Liquor Clown in Los Angeles, California

April 26, 2024

Circus Liquor is a regular San Fernando Valley liquor store that is set apart by the 32-foot-tall clown who watches over the adjacent intersection with a decidedly creepy expression on his face. Perhaps it’s the two crosses he has for eyes or his fixed, maniacal grin, but he seems to be enticing you to buy some booze and get up to no good. Now a Los Angeles landmark, this neon sign dates from the 1960s and has become a...

The Mystery of Uruguay's Ferocious, All-Female Cannibal...

April 26, 2024

A tribe of ferocious, cannibalistic Amazons lurks in the grasslands of southern Uruguay. Ok, they’re not the notorious warrior women of myth: They’re only a few inches long and they can’t fire an arrow. But they are no less wondrous, especially to researcher Mariana Trillo, who discovered this unique population of praying mantises and has studied them ever since. Growing up in the suburbs of Montevideo, Trillo had always wanted to study biology but discovered an unexpected passion late...

King Richard III's Car Park in Leicester,...

April 26, 2024

King Richard III had only been on the English throne for two years when he was killed in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. This ended the War of the Roses, ushering in the Tudor reign, which saw Henry VII take the throne. After Richard’s death, his body was taken to Leicester, where the body was displayed for two days. When Henry left Leicester, Richard was buried under what was then the Grey Friars church. Ten years later, the...

This Tiny Restaurant Helps Keep Kashmiri Cuisine...

April 26, 2024

On a narrow backstreet in old Rawalpindi—Pakistan’s fourth largest city by population—is a small eatery called the Dilbar Hotel. The aging façade, which is illuminated by neon green lights in the evenings, is decorated by an awning that has been covered in a sheet of translucent plastic. There are only two phrases painted on the canvas: “Since 1948,” written in dull gray letters on one side, and the Arabic term, Mashallah, or “God has willed it,” on the other....

Thiba Palace in Ratnagiri, India

April 26, 2024

The coastal city of Ratnagiri is home to beautiful beaches, temples, forts, and many fascinating places of historical and cultural importance. One such place is a grand old palace from a bygone era. Thiba Palace or Thibaw Palace was constructed in 1910 by the British for the house arrest of King Thibaw of Myanmar (then Burma) and his family. In November 1885 during the third Anglo-Burmese War, the British defeated the king. After, the British exiled him and his...

San Agustin Church in Manila, Philippines

April 26, 2024

Built within the administrative center of the Spanish government, San Agustin church was designed according to the plans approved by the Royal Audencia of Mexico and by a Royal Decree. The church was built by Juan Macias in 1586 and was completed in 1607. It was renovated in 1854. Inside, a guided pulpit was installed and the altar was adorned with native flora and pineapples as decorative motifs. It served several purposes—as the earliest religious center of the Spanish...

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