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'Dollar a Gallon III' in Miami, Florida

May 21, 2024

Amidst the high-end Miami Design District, visitors can find an incongruous sight tucked away on a side street. A gas station billboard painted a dull gold lies tilted on its side, still flashing its advertisement for Sunoco gas. This structure isn’t a discarded product of the past, but a public artwork entitled Dollar a Gallon III, one of the final works of American polymath Virgil Abloh. Abloh’s career crossed many boundaries between the worlds of fashion, art, music, product...

Paul Bunyan's Severed Head in York, Maine

May 21, 2024

It’s unclear precisely how the head of a Paul Bunyan statue got to the top of a tree near the York river in York, Maine. “He’s always been there” is what locals have said. That’s just where he lives. When Seacoastonline looked into the mysterious head in 2021, they found that the head was likely placed on the tree by land owners David and Sharan Gross. Their daughter, Amanda Bouchard, said at the time that “the river is important to...

Dioklecijanov Akvadukt (Diocletian Aqueduct) in Split, Croatia

May 21, 2024

Roman emperor Diocletian is perhaps the most notable resident of Split, Croatia‘s second most-populated city. What used to be his palace now constitutes almost the entirety of the modern city’s UNESCO-protected historic center. His life story in some ways reflects the twin cities found on this Croatian peninsula: Solin and Spalato. Diocletian was born in Salona, now known as Solin, and is considered a town within Split‘s metropolitan area. Yet it was Spalato (now Split proper) where he decided...

The Boardwalk at Lake Weatherford in Weatherford,...

May 21, 2024

Spanning an impressive 4,313 feet across Lake Weatherford, a small city located outside of Dallas, the floating boardwalk winds its way through the lake’s ecosystem. Guests can walk among lily pads in the middle of the lake, wander between trees in the salt marsh, or even cross the boardwalk in the dry season to see the lake as a mud flat. The boardwalk was designed to float to account for the highly variable depth of Lake Weatherford, which can change...

Mosesbrunnen in Bern, Switzerland

May 21, 2024

Bern, Switzerland, is a city of springs with beautifully decorated fountains offering free spring water all around town. Most of these are decorated with various statues, such as the famous Child Eater of Bern. However, this spring in Bern, known as the Mosesbrunnen (or Moses Fountain), depicts perhaps a much more interesting image of Moses showing an attempted compromise between two biblical interpretations. The spring and statue date back to 1544. It was later rebuilt in the 18th century....

Two Spirits Carving in Vancouver, British Columbia

May 21, 2024

Nestled deep within the wilds of Stanley Park stands the Two Spirits carving. The mysterious statue follows the guerrilla art movement championed by artists like Banksy. In this vein, no artist has claimed to have created it and Stanley Park government officials refuse to recognize it. The statue is a rebellion and speaks to the untamed spirit of Stanley Park itself. Carved into a decomposing stump, the face morphs and changes as you walk around the carving. From one angle,...

Mobile Carnival Museum in Mobile, Alabama

May 21, 2024

Though most people associate American celebrations of Mardi Gras with New Orleans, the pre-Lenten festival was actually first observed in the New World by French settlers at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff, which eventually grew into the city of Mobile, Alabama. This museum, which opened in 2005, tells the story of how the Mardi Gras evolved from that first celebration in 1703 into the modern tradition. The museum is filled with displays, photographs, posters, and more, but one of its biggest draws...

Sperm Whale Exhibition Hall in Tainan City,...

May 21, 2024

Situated in Tainan’s massive Taijiang National Park, between Sicao Green Tunnel, one of the city’s most popular tourist destinations, and the imposing, 300-year-old Dazhong Temple, a small, unassuming building contains two complete sperm whale skeletons—a beached mother and child, now exhibited with charming red bows in the hollows of their skulls. The skeletons form the centerpiece of the exhibition hall, but around the perimeter glass cases contain numerous preserved specimens of marine life, including seashells, crabs, baby sharks, tropical...

Podcast: From Seed to Significance

May 21, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Earlier this spring we shared the story of the city of Melbourne’s program to track trees, which morphed into a love fest. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we hear from you, with your love letters to trees that play a special role in your life. Want to be in an upcoming Atlas Obscura episode? We’re collecting listener stories right now about traveling with...

Can Music Make Your Food Taste Better?

May 20, 2024

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE MAY 18, 2024, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. Music is all about context. The same high-energy track that keeps you moving at a concert might feel disruptive and annoying if blasted at a restaurant. A 2018 study published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences even found that the louder a restaurant’s music is, the more likely customers are to order unhealthy foods, possibly...

The Ostrich Inn in Colnbrook, England

May 20, 2024

The Ostrich is a quaint coaching inn in the quiet Berkshire village of Colnbrook, Slough. Many sources claim the establishment is England’s third-oldest inn, dating it back to 1106, though others say it may only be as old as the 16th century. Beyond being one of England’s oldest, it is also often claimed to be one of the most haunted. The story goes, that in the 17th century, the inn was owned by a landlord named Jarman. With the...

Siberia’s Doorway to the Underworld Is Getting...

May 20, 2024

In Siberia’s Yana Highlands, a chunk of land roughly the shape of a giant stingray has been sinking down into a very large pit. Called the Doorway to the Underworld, the Batagay Megaslump (also known as the Batagaika Crater) is 200 acres and continues to widen. Scientists have known for a while that the permafrost crater has been continually melting and growing, but the expansion is even faster than they’d realized. In a new study, scientists were finally able...

For the Ancient Maya, Cracked Mirrors Were...

May 20, 2024

This story was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under a Creative Commons license. Some people fear that breaking a mirror can lead to seven years of misfortune. The history of this superstition may go back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who ascribed mysterious powers to reflected images. As a scholar of the Indigenous religions of the Americas, I know that the ancient Maya had a different take on cracked mirrors. During the first millennium, the...

Podcast: The Ludlow Massacre Site

May 20, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we learn about the Ludlow colony in southern Colorado—a place that was once a bustling tent city and haven for miners and their families. But it was also the site of one of the country’s most monumental and violent clashes of the labor movement. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In...

The Atlas Obscura Crossword: Inner Cities

May 20, 2024

This themed crossword comes from Zhouqin (C.C.) Burnikel, who grew up in Xi’an, China, before moving to the United States in 2001. She’s the author of Sip & Solve Easy Mini Crosswords. You can solve the puzzle below, or download it in .pdf or .puz. Note that the links in the clues will take you to Atlas Obscura pages that may contain the answer. Happy solving!

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