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The Atlas Obscura Crossword: Dry Run

December 18, 2023

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!

Christianity Is Disappearing in England, As Seen...

December 15, 2023

October 25, 2022 has been called Britain’s “Obama Moment”: On that day, Rishi Sunak became the country’s first ever non-white Prime Minister. But Britain’s current head of government represents an even bigger change. As a practicing Hindu, Sunak also is Britain’s first non-Christian PM. And although Sunak won his post via an internal poll among Conservative Party Members of Parliament rather than a general election, on that last point at least his tenure is timely and symbolic. Because, as...

Old Dutch Mill in Smith Center, Kansas

December 15, 2023

A reminder of Kansas’s early pioneer days and the waves of immigration that defined American expansion, the Old Dutch Mill in Smith Center, Kansas is a link between Old World Europe, American farm life, and the rise of historic preservation in the 20th century. The mill’s story begins far from Kansas. Charles G. Schwarz was born in Grauenhagen, Germany, in 1840, and moved to Kansas in pursuit of work in 1873. Although promised a job, he and his family...

How Christmas Murder Mysteries Became a U.K....

December 15, 2023

In a family house beside a loch in Argyll, Scotland, just northwest of Glasglow, Andreina Cordani holds up the hard copy of her latest novel, The 12 Days of Murder. The cover looks like it’s wrapped as a Christmas present, with red and gold baubles framing the title, and the ‘M’ of Murder dripping down the page. The novel centers around a university reunion in a Scottish glen where seven members of the school’s murder mystery society come together...

Frog Garden Fountain in Hanoi, Vietnam

December 15, 2023

Just off the lakeside square dedicated to the statue of Emperor Lý Thái Tổ stands a worn-out monument colloquially known as the Frog Garden Fountain. It’s a rectangular stone pillar standing on a pool decorated with sculptures of frogs and dragons, unassuming but somewhat whimsical. It appears to be of no particular note at a glance, but it hides a little secret from the French Colonial era. Installed in 1901, the fountain is the oldest surviving one in the city. It...

Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota

December 15, 2023

By most standards, at 53 feet, Minnehaha Falls is a small waterfall. But what it lacks in height it makes up for in its fantastic setting, its natural beauty, and its accessibility. It has been a popular tourist destination since the 1800s when riverboat tours of the upper Mississippi became fashionable. Made famous in Longfellow’s epic poem (he never actually visited) the falls are the main feature of the Minnehaha Park, which is run by the Minneapolis Park and...

Make Italy’s Christmas Snake Cake

December 15, 2023

In May of 2023, Natasha Contardi of Montreal, Canada, found a decades-old scrap of paper among her grandmother’s belongings with a handwritten Italian recipe on it. Her grandmother, suffering from dementia, no longer recognized the recipe, so Contardi posted photos on Reddit asking for help with the translation. Not only did the online community translate the recipe, they revealed the food mystery behind it. Originally written down by a great-aunt of Contardi’s, the recipe was for serpentone, a traditional...

Meet Turoń, Poland's Dancing Bull-Beast of Winter

December 15, 2023

Travel back a century or so, to a chilly winter night. Christmas has come and gone, and New Year’s Eve is on the horizon when a group of carolers approach your door. They’re dressed as figures from the Nativity. Elated, you welcome them. Then you notice a terrifying stranger among them: a tall creature with musky-smelling hair, silver bull horns, and a snapping jaw pierced with nails. He dances and jumps to the music, sometimes pouncing on children. Meet...

Bergbahn Machinenraum in Heidelberg, Germany

December 15, 2023

Funiculars, sometimes called the missing link between trains and elevators, are a popular form of transportation in mountainous areas as they can scale areas of high inclination. This is achieved by attaching carts to cables that are pulled from the end station by enormous engines. Usually, these engines are hidden away from sight, but in the Bergbahn Machinenraum, visitors get a rare glimpse of the inner workings. The second part of the Heidelberger Bergbahn is a historical 1907 funicular that...

Shin-Nishiarai Octopus Slide in Tokyo, Japan

December 15, 2023

Octopus-shaped slides are very common in children’s playgrounds across Japan, popular for their whimsical, maze-like designs. Installed by the Maeda Company in the 1960s, the tako-no-yama or “octopus mountain” spawned a brood of hundreds of similar slides around Tokyo and beyond in the next decades, and there is even one of those in Copenhagen today. But debates arise when it comes to which park was the trailblazer of this trend. According to the most popular theory, the first octopus slide...

John Cabot's Whalebone in Bristol, England

December 15, 2023

A centerpiece of historical Bristol, England, the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, more commonly known as St. Mary Redcliffe, is a breathtaking Gothic structure with intricate stone carvings and stained glass. The church has been standing for eight centuries and was even called “The fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England” by Queen Elizabeth I. But beyond its architectural marvels, the church holds a secret: a 15th-century whalebone. Tucked away in the church’s St. John’s Chapel, the...

9 Surprising Stories About Air Travel (In...

December 15, 2023

According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), more than 2.9 million people traveled by air in the United States on the Sunday after Thanksgiving 2023—more than on any day in the history of the airplane. That number broke a record set less than five months earlier, on the Friday before the Fourth of July, and the new record may not last long: Industry analysts predict the Friday before Christmas 2003 will be another blockbuster. So we took a trip...

Kopcsik Marcipánia in Eger, Hungary

December 14, 2023

Located on a side street of the central square in the town of Eger, Hungary this five-room museum showcases the works of a legendary confectioner. Lajos Kopcsik holds the title of “Most culinary art awards won at the same competition” in the Guinness Book of World Records for his 10 Clover Leaf medals at the IKA/Culinary Olympics in Berlin. Here, the maestro displays his prowess with more than 150 fantastical creations all wrought in marzipan. There are famous paintings, sculptures,...

People May Speak More Loudly or Quietly...

December 14, 2023

Every distinguishing feature of a language—its sounds, cadences, and grammatical patterns—was shaped over time as each language developed. Volume is no exception. In new research, scientists analyzed around 346,000 words from about 5,000 languages and dialects and calculated each language’s average “sonority.” Sonority is a measure that can partially be understood as loudness, though it also includes how resonant a word is. For example, a word with lots of vowels like “mouth” has a bigger and rounder sound that...

Frutos del Guacabo in Sector Piñeiro Manatí,...

December 14, 2023

Tucked away on a dirt road roughly a half-hour drive from San Juan, Frutos del Guacabo is a farm-to-fork experience that celebrates Puerto Rico’s biodiversity. Opened in 2010, allows visitors to visit the different growing areas of the island farm, from greenhouse to animal pastures, and experience native fruits, herbs and vegetables in a bucolic setting with various options for tastings. Visitors can opt for a one- or two-hour tour through the grounds, during which you’ll feed goats and...

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