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The Great Hall within the Royal Exchange...

February 23, 2024

From the outside, Manchester’s Royal Exchange looks similar to many of the other Victorian-era buildings around the city center, although the ground floor features multiple shops and restaurants as well as an arcade running through the center of the building. Steps on the east and west sides of the building lead to entrances with signs for the Royal Exchange Theatre mounted above on glass awnings. The average passerby might assume that these entrances lead to a lobby adjoining the...

This 1,700 Year Old Egg Never Broke—And...

February 23, 2024

About 50 miles northwest of London sits a very old wishing well. Romans used to toss objects into the water here, offering items to the gods for good luck. Nearly 2,000 years later, archaeologists are still finding ancient artifacts from what is now a large, muddy pit, including coins, ceramic pots, shoes, and even bones from between 270 and 300 AD. The site is called Berryfields, which has an Iron Age Roman settlement along its southern edge and medieval...

Geographical Center of the Entire United States...

February 23, 2024

In an open field about 20 miles north of the more accessible Center of the Nation Monument, there is a small marker that indicates the actual center of the United States, as designated by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Determining the center of an irregularly shaped land mass sitting on the curved surface of our planet is a difficult task. Coming up with an answer has posed a unique challenge for mathematicians and surveyors. It gets even more complicated when...

World's Largest Kokopelli in Camp Verde, Arizona

February 23, 2024

All across the Four Corners region of the United States, visitors will often come across a half-kitsch, half-spiritual figure known as Kokopelli. The popularity of the Kokopelli figure crested across the Southwest during the early 21st century, but its origins lie before the dawn of the historical record. And with more than a thousand years of history behind it, the largest and most imposing likeness of this mythic flute-playing figure can be found in a roadside Starbucks parking lot...

Hugin Longship in Cliffsend, England

February 23, 2024

The ship was a gift from the Danish government to commemorate the 1500th anniversary of the arrival of Hengist and Horsa, legendary brothers who led the first Anglo-Saxon tribes. It’s said that the brothers landed at nearby Ebbsfleet in 449 CE, shortly after the betrothal of Hengist’s daughter, Rowena, to King Vortigen of Kent in exchange for land. This Hugin itself is a replica of the Gokstad ship, a Viking vessel dating from the 9th century. Though the ship...

7 Crazy True Stories About the Victorian...

February 23, 2024

We can’t seem to get enough of the Victorian Era, and the denizens of that mid- and late-19th century period that saw fascinating changes in science and society. Our obsession with everything from their fashion sense to their prudery has led to countless wondrous stories. Some are mere historical embellishment (you’ve heard about those “sexy” furniture legs?) but other wacky tales are all-too-true. Here’s a collection of our favorites from the Atlas Obscura archives. Clearing Up Some Myths About...

Grand Mosque of Agadez in Agadez, Niger

February 23, 2024

Built in 1515 during the reign of the Songhai Empire, this mosque showcases the culmination of decades of the Tuareg people’s desire to perfect their building methods. According to legend, the mosque was built in one night, after Isha prayer, before the sun rose the following morning by Muslim scholar Imam Bahkili. The minaret that sits at the heart of the shrine stands approximately 27 meters (89 feet) tall, making it the tallest mud-brick structure in the world. You...

How Alligators and Humans Became Friends—Kind Of

February 22, 2024

Inside New Orleans’s Great American Alligator Museum, visitors’ emotions can run the gamut—from spine-chilling apprehension to warm-and-fuzzy affection. “Many people come into the museum and marvel at Fideaux, our 14-foot taxidermy alligator who greets visitors with a wide toothy grin as they enter the main gallery, saying, ‘That’s a dinosaur!’” says Liz McDade, co-owner of the museum. “And then as they take a few more steps inside, we hear people talking about ‘Killer’—our baby alligator [part of Louisiana’s conservation...

Where Did Humans Evolve? (Probably Not Where...

February 22, 2024

Drive west about two hours from the vibrant souks of Marrakech and you will reach the small village of Tlet Ighoud. The rural community stretches along the intersection of two narrow, minor highways. If you follow one of them north for a couple miles, you’ll find an old pit from an abandoned mining operation. In this arid region, the site’s tumble of red and orange rocks seems like nothing special, but it was here, more than 60 years ago,...

Brister Freeman Homestead Site in Concord, Massachusetts

February 22, 2024

Not far from Walden Pond, where Henry David Thoreau lived for two years in a cabin he built along its shore, sits a solitary stone that tells a story about another man. It’s a story that many have never heard, even though Thoreau himself wrote about it, though briefly. The stone commemorates the life of Brister Freeman. Brister Freeman was born Brister Cuming in Concord around 1744 and spent roughly the first 25 to 30 years of his life as...

Sul Ross Desk in Alpine, Texas

February 22, 2024

In 1979, three students at Sul Ross State University decided they needed a spot away from campus to study. And why not grind on those exam reviews with a view? So Jim Kitchen, Bill Wagner, and Travis Miller carted a desk up to the top of Hancock Hill, north of campus. They would spend their afternoons and evenings studying at this spot and taking in the great views offered by the west Texas sun and expansive plains and mountains...

House of the Singing Winds in Nashville,...

February 22, 2024

Every year, tourists from across the state flock to Brown County for its natural beauty and historic, artsy feel, especially in the fall. This landscape has drawn artists from around the country, and in the early 20th century it became home to a collective of painters known as the Hoosier Group. One of the most famous and successful members of the group was Theodore Clement Steele, who moved to the area in 1907. Drawn by its seclusion and stunning...

Grave of William French in Westminster, Vermont

February 22, 2024

Along the Connecticut River in the quiet town of Westminster, Vermont, a headstone in the town’s old cemetery commemorates the life of William French, a man whose death indirectly led to Vermont’s independence, both from the British Loyalist government of New York Colony and the crown of Great Britain. In 1775, Westminster was a part of the once-fraught New Hampshire Grants, a strip of disputed land that was claimed by the provinces of both New Hampshire and New York. Tensions...

Podcast: Buffalo Soldiers National Museum

February 22, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, one of our producers revisits her hometown, Houston, and goes to the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum. It holds stories about the contributions of Black members of the U.S. Armed Forces, and one man in particular, who started the collection years ago in his garage. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In...

The Great American Alligator Museum in New...

February 22, 2024

Nestled in the heart of New Orleans’s Lower Garden district, among the vintage stores, coffee shops, and restaurants that line Magazine Street, the Great American Alligator Museum celebrates alligators’ 65 million-year-old history on planet Earth. The owners of the museum, Liz and Robert McDade, curated this one-of-a-kind exhibit after years of collecting and selling fossils and minerals. Highlights of the museum include a 14-foot taxidermy alligator named Fideauax and a 50 million-year-old caiman fossil. There’s also a vast array...

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