Spanish Arch
The Spanish Arch still stands today, though in 1755 it was partially destroyed by a tidal wave generated by the major earthquake in Lisbon that year.
‘Diwalloween’ Means Lights, Sweets, and Spooky Treats
Last year, I prepared a Halloween brunch buffet that included toad-shaped steamed buns, a severed charcuterie arm, and green mac and cheese served in a smoking bin of toxic waste.
Much Marcle Ancient Yew
The tree supports a diverse ecosystem, providing habitat for various species of wildlife, and its hardy nature exemplifies the yew’s importance in both cultural and environmental heritage.
Alresford’s Napoleonic Graves
Located opposite the west door of the church, the graves are a poignant reminder of the lives of these individuals who found themselves in captivity in a foreign land.
How to properly fit a ski helmet to ensure maximum safety?
Below, you’ll find detailed tips to help with the selection and fit of a helmet—from the correct sizes to ventilation technologies and adjustment options, such as removable ear pads.
St. Olave’s Priory
His influence spread across Europe, and the respect he received in East Anglia points to strong trade and cultural ties between that region and Scandinavia during the early Middle Ages.
The Alabama Hills: Visit California’s Most Filmed Rock Formations
Located between the snow-covered peaks of the Sierra Nevada and the rugged Inyo Mountains, the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area is a breathtaking spot where visitors can hike, admire vibrant wildflower blooms every spring, and reenact stills from iconic films such as Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.
A Fossilized Forest in Japan
The Tomizawa site is said to be the only place in the world where such an old fossilized forest was found alongside human settlement remains spanning centuries, from the Neolithic period to the Middle Ages and beyond.
This Winter, Give the Gift of Palm Springs
Rustic whitewashed and red wood walls lend the property the air of a luxe rural retreat or, as some have described it, “a summer camp for adults.” Guests are encouraged to unplug and relax in spacious television free rooms and an on-site massage tent.
‘Little Italy’
On closer inspection, you can see the structures are miniatures of some of Italy’s most famous landmarks, including Florence’s Duomo, Venice’s Rialto Bridge, as well as Rome’s Mouth of Truth.
Pink Muhly Grass
The delicate flowers of this hardy plant bloom in fluffy clumps when the weather begins cool, giving the grass its famed pink (and occasionally, purple) hue.
The Startling History of the Jump Scare
Church also says that post-horror films “tend to deny audiences the jump scare as a reliever of tension,” embracing open-ended narratives and remixing classic horror tropes through an art cinema lens.
How a Newspaper Revolution Led to the ‘Wide Awakes’—and the Civil War
Adding militaristic uniforms, torch-lit midnight rallies, and an open eye as their all-seeing symbol, a new movement was born, which I chronicle in my recent book, Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War.
Lake Chelan
Because the rugged terrain is not conducive to road building, vessels plying Lake Chelan (pronounced “sheh-LAN”) formed a major part of the local transportation infrastructure until well into the 20th century, and remain important even to this day.
Ancient Melancholy Man
Over time, plants have slowly covered up the statue only to be cut back so that the Ancient Melancholy Man can gaze upon the visitors to Holland Park once again.
Pentidattilo
It was first settled back in the seventh century BC, and built underneath a big hand-shaped rock—the name derives from the Greek words penta and daktylos, or “five fingers.”
Ybykty Canyon
The unusual composition of materials and differing rates of erosion have resulted in unique formations, with the sculpting process aided by occasional rainfall to sharpen the edges and fine-tune the corners.
A Cemetery’s Immortal Residents and the Scientist Who Studies Them
On her early October walk through the sunny cemetery, Pringle is accompanied by botany graduate student Zach Smith, who is learning how to study these potentially immortal lichens.
7 Stories of Ghosts in Weird Places
Like a horror novel and a diorama colliding, Banks’s fascinating art tells the tales of Southern Gothic ghosts through teeny-tiny taxidermy, finger-nail-sized newspaper clippings, and other extravagant miniatures.
Kokkala Gorge
The top of the ridge can be precarious and requires firm footing, as the narrow path is scattered with loose copper-colored rock, flanked by steep cliffs, and prone to sudden blasts of strong wind.
The Ghost Plaque of the Keyhole House
The enigmatic plaque has left new residents feeling slightly uneasy, drawn the attention of curious ghost hunters, and even resulted in the building being listed as one of the city’s most haunted locations by Gothenburg’s official tourism board.
The Unique Gullah Geechee History of South Carolina
If you’ve ever eaten gumbo, sang “kumbaya,” or sat on a front porch painted blue, you are living Gullah legacy and carrying on African traditions that survived the unlikeliest of conditions into the modern day.
THE KEY WEST FILM FESTIVAL 2024
Other spotlight films include Gia Coppola’s THE LAST SHOWGIRL, featuring a career defining performance by Pamela Anderson as a seasoned Las Vegas showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run; the inspirational true story UNSTOPPABLE, featuring Jennifer Lopez and Bobby Cannavale alongside Jharrel James (also in Moonlight), who stars as Anthony Robles, an athlete born with one leg who defies expectations to become a champion wrestler in college; and BETTER MAN, from director Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman), based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams, one of the greatest entertainers of all time.
Purcell-Cutts House
Their design followed many of Chicago architect Louis Sullivan’s principles of organic architecture, which held that buildings should reflect their surrounding environments, in the same way that a plant grows “naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.”
Mexico’s Vampire Witch Has a Twisted Origin Story
About 20 years ago, while anthropologist and independent scholar Edgar MartĂn del Campo lived with the Nahua and Otomi people of the rural region of Huasteca, including Chicontepec, he explored the complicated folklore of the teyollohcuani.
Saint Exupéry Monument
In 1935, Saint-Exupéry and his navigator André Prévot crashed in the Libyan desert while trying to break a record for fastest flight from Paris to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City).
Appalachia’s Ugliest Cryptid Drowns In Its Own Tears
The second Squonkapalooza took place August 10, 2024, and it proved equally popular, with hundreds of visitors perusing the vendor stands in Johnstown’s Central Park and watching lectures, podcast recordings, and movie screenings in the State Theater.
Oiwa Inari Shrines
If you visit Yotsuya today, you may find another interesting thing in the area: There are two Inari shrines dedicated to Lady Oiwa, almost facing each other on the same street.
1904 World’s Fair Swedish Pavilion
With its cheery yellow exterior and distinct sloping roofs, the Swedish Pavilion is architect Ferdinand Boberg’s only international exposition building still standing.
Britain’s last remaining wild places
The isles are famed for their wide Atlantic vistas, sandy beaches routinely named among the best in the world, sea-to-summit mountains, mystical standing stones, Gaelic culture and machair – a rare grassland habitat only found on the exposed west-facing shores of Scotland and Ireland.
The Greatest Witch Movie Ever Made
Modern witchcraft is often traced back to the mid-20th century, when a renewed interest in environmentalism, the founding of Wicca, the seeds of second-wave feminism, and a postwar world searching for spiritual guidance led people to beliefs outside mainstream or patriarchal “major” religions like Christianity.
Garbasaurus
Hidden in Guelph’s Royal City Park, Garbasaurus is a six-foot-tall sculpture made entirely from garbage, commemorating the Ontario Public Interest Research Group’s (OPIRG) Speed River Cleanup.
Who Were the Mysterious Moon-Eyed People of Appalachia?
Tales of Madoc’s “Welsh Indians” had captured the imagination of jingoistic colonialists since Elizabethan times, because their purported existence meant that North America had been “claimed” for the English long before Columbus arrived in 1492.
London Scottish House
The exterior makes the London Scottish House look like an average office building, but the interior features a unique multi-story Victorian-era military drill hall that has been given a Grade II listing.
Kurozuka (Black Tomb)
Once upon a time, over a thousand years ago, a Buddhist monk named YĹ«kei was traveling across the Adachi-ga-hara plain when he sought a lodging for the night and found a cavern occupied by an old woman.
‘Multiplera SkĂĄne’
In 2023, the unique art project Multiplera Skåne brought 28 life-sized, 3D-printed clay figures to a forest clearing in Sweden’s Hörby municipality.
Minnetonka Cave
In Idaho’s Cache National Forest, near the Utah border, lies one of the most geologically fascinating caves in the United States.
Drink Like a Founding Father
Both to make a dent in the fledgling nation’s lingering Revolutionary War debts and curb the drinking habits of its population, Hamilton suggested slapping a tax on domestically distilling spirits.
Hope Slide
Debris was continuing to fall across the road, and a truck driver who came up while the people were trying to free their stuck car realized this indicated further sliding was highly probable.
Were the Salem Witch Trials Ruff on Dogs?
Nearly every history of Salem recounts how when Samuel Parris’s daughters were having terrible fits that led people to believe they were bewitched, Tituba, the enslaved woman who lived in the household, baked a “witch cake” using urine from the afflicted girls and fed it to the family’s dog.
Black Swan Hotel
Spend time strolling around the pub, drink in hand reading the history of these motorbikes, admiring the machines themselves and the signage and posters that are a part of this collection in the center of Bendigo.
Cascata Diamantina (Diamantina Waterfall)
You can go to the waterfall by bike or car (search for "cascata da Baronesa" on google maps to find the directions).
10 red flags to look for when booking a hotel
Cue the worst travel experience of my life: literal towers of bugs climbing up the door frames, flying cockroaches, a blizzard of insects as we ate dinner – with some landing in my dahl.
Paseo del Sistema Solar
In 2007, GĂłmez-Cambronero, a professor at Wright State University in Ohio, created the first design for this project, which scales the size of the planets and their distance from the sun for the city of Manzanares.
New York’s Sullivan Catskills
Enjoy farm-fresh 3-course lunches and dinners from $29.95-$44.95 at Blue Fox Motel, Cellaio, Kenoza Hall, Lotus, Roscoe Mountain Club, Seminary Hill Orchard & Cidery, Tavern on Main, The Arnold House, The DeBruce, The Heron Restaurant, The Homestead Restaurant+Lounge, and Yagsur’s Café at the Museum at Bethel Woods.
City of Rocks
Massive granite formations standing hundreds of feet tall, some as ancient as 2.5 billion years old—Idaho’s City of Rocks has some of the most dramatic landscapes you’ll find on a U.S. natural reserve.
Hagerman Fossil Beds
Two of the most notable are the Platygonus pearcei (a type of peccary or skunk pig) and Borophagus hilli also known as “The Bone Crusher” (a dog-like North American scavenger carnivore similar in role and purpose to hyenas in Africa today).
Emerald Creek Garnet Area
The phenomenon, known as asterism, is caused by rutile (a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide) needle formations within the stone creating a stunning optical display.
The SS United States Heads Into Unknown Waters
Though there is a danger in the wistful nostalgia that romanticizes the grandeur of past decades without also adjusting for social and technological progress, it’s hard not to draw a direct contrast between a period where our constructed world was built to withstand centuries and the present, where planned obsolescence is the norm.
Turnip Rock: Michigan’s Stunning Formation
Along the Michigan tip thumb shoreline, located a geologic formation called Turnip Rock, estimated to be thousands years old.
Gloriously Gruesome Confections for Halloween–and the Rest of the Year
Making culinary magic may be difficult, but Alcaraz is encouraged by how many people enjoy his creations, whether they see them under his Practical Peculiarities handle online or in one of his television appearances on shows like Killer Cakes.
Pelješac Bridge
Controversy seemed to rage until 2017 but eventually the tender for construction was let to a Chinese company for 278 million euros with the majority coming from the EU cohesion fund despite objections from Bosnia.