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The Man-Eating Dingonek Lurks Beneath East Africa’s...

April 29, 2024

The beast-fish was terrifying. It stretched at least 14 feet long—or maybe 18. Its enormous head was shaped like a leopard, or a dog, or an otter, depending on who you asked and when. It used its strong, wide tail to steer through the currents of East Africa’s rivers. Some reported it had the long, white tusks of a walrus and an armadillo’s impenetrable scales. Its feet—for yes, the beast-fish had feet—were as large as a hippo’s, but with...

Jumbo Water Tower in Colchester, England

April 29, 2024

In the heart of Colchester stands the Jumbo Water Tower, considered a striking architectural wonder. The tower reaches 131 feet high and is made up of 1.2 million red bricks. It takes over 150 steps to reach the cupola at the top, which is crowned with an elephant weathervane. The structure earned the nickname “Jumbo,” after an elephant at the London Zoo. In 1883, surveyor and engineer Charles Clegg built the water tower in a Romanesque Revival campanile style....

Six Ksitigarbhas of Yuigahama in Kamakura, Japan

April 29, 2024

Yuigahama is one of Kamakura’s most popular hangouts, a scenic crescent-shaped beach flanked by mountainous headlands. It gets quite busy on weekends, with many families, couples, and tourists lounging about on the soft sand and soaking their feet in the calm waves. Despite its peaceful atmosphere, the beach is also known as one of the spookiest spots in the city. During the medieval Kamakura period, it saw many bloody battles between feuding samurai clans and executions. It was also...

Behold the Weird Glory of Häxan, A...

April 29, 2024

In September 1922, Swedish filmgoers settled in for the most expensive Scandinavian film of the era: Häxan, later known as Witchcraft Through the Ages. At the Stockholm premiere, audiences enjoyed a live orchestra and illustrated playbills introducing the film’s cast and creative process. This level of pomp and circumstance was typical for high-profile European movies at the time. Less typical was Häxan’s accompanying bibliography, citing dozens of academic sources ranging from medieval religious texts to Jungian psychoanalysis. It was...

Moto Museum in St. Louis, Missouri

April 29, 2024

Spanning nearly 100 years of motorcycle history, the MOTO Museum in St. Louis is home to a massive collection of rare and important motorcycles. Started by architect and retail developer Steve Smith in 2007, the collection is housed in a modern, industrial space adjacent to a boutique hotel. It includes roughly 75 vintage motorcycles from 21 European countries. The bikes range in age from the early 1900s to 1975. Each motorcycle shares a unique story. The oldest bike on...

The Stars and Stripes National Museum and...

April 29, 2024

In November 1861, in the early stages of the Civil War, 10 Union soldiers from southern Illinois took over the vacant print room of the Bloomfield Herald to establish a new publication, The Stars and Stripes. The Stars and Stripes National Museum and Library celebrates not only the military paper’s origins, but also its writers and photographers and the roles they played in some of history’s most pivotal moments. The museum’s 7,000 square feet of exhibition space is filled with...

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...

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