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  • Gastro Obscura’s Favorite New Places to Eat and Drink in 2024

    Gastro Obscura’s Favorite New Places to Eat and Drink in 2024

    The evening is enriched with live storytelling, music, and, of course, an array of delicious dishes such as a peanut soup with Atlantic shrimp fufu dumpling, caviar and herb oil, egusi pesto with plantain agnolotti, and suya-crusted lamb with zoboberry demi-glace.


    Northampton Bank Robbery Mural

    Northampton Bank Robbery Mural

    Mirage Studios, the production company of TMNT, was formerly headquartered in Northampton, and the city maintains a fondness for the vigilante turtles.


    Vienna’s “Blood Alley Quarter”

    Vienna’s “Blood Alley Quarter”

    The most popular story is that, following the dissolution of the Order of the Temple in the 14th century, a group of Knights Templar found a hiding place in one of the houses in the alley, but were caught by the authorities and slaughtered.


    Arab Baths of Jaén

    Arab Baths of Jaén

    After Ferdinand III conquered the city in 1246, the baths were used during the early years of Christian rule until they were repurposed as tanneries.


    Atlas Obscura’s Favorite New Places of 2024

    Atlas Obscura’s Favorite New Places of 2024

    For the past 15 years, if you’ve had your radio tuned to 91.9 FM while traveling on Valley Road between Bellevue and Lorraine Avenues, you’d hear the exact same thing: a one-minute snippet of “I’ll Make Love to You” by Boyz II Men, on loop.


    Unveiling the Secrets of Wine Tasting

    Unveiling the Secrets of Wine Tasting

    Swirling is not just about releasing the aromas but an opportunity to perceive viscosity: wines that have slower-moving “legs” (the streaks down the inside of your glass) might indicate high alcohol or residual sugar levels.


    Brooklyn Seltzer Museum

    Brooklyn Seltzer Museum

    Tucked into an industrial area of Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, is this gem of a museum offers a glimpse into the history of New York told through one of its favorite drinks.


    Motomiya Movie Theater

    Motomiya Movie Theater

    But the real gem is just behind the wall: an old silver screen set in an authentically retro hall, which once had a capacity of 800 people.


    Mountain Pass Mine

    Mountain Pass Mine

    The efforts are an echo of the "strategic minerals programs" that lasted into the 1960s, where the U.S. government subsidized the production of materials deemed vital to national security.


    Longyearbyen: Visit a Rugged Winter Wonderland in Norway

    Longyearbyen: Visit a Rugged Winter Wonderland in Norway

    Longyearbyen is home to several cozy hotels, scrumptious restaurants, lively bars, and museums that showcase the fascinating culture of an Arctic town that is alternately steeped in constant darkness and perpetual sunlight.


    Zandverhalen Sandsculpture Museum

    Zandverhalen Sandsculpture Museum

    The museum also incorporates a curious array of other elements: ancient olive trees, salvaged doors, and architectural artifacts from around the world are integrated into the sand scenes.


    Kinomoto Tsuruya Bakery

    Kinomoto Tsuruya Bakery

    Salad bread, the bakery's flagship item, consists of a long, soft white bun that is split and smeared with kewpie mayonnaise and pickled radish, and sold for ÂĄ180.


    Norma Jean Circus Elephant Monument

    Norma Jean Circus Elephant Monument

    Years later, local druggist and animal lover Wade Meloan marked Norma Jean’s grave with a picket fence and hand-painted sign.


    Grand Galvez Hotel | Galveston, Texas

    Grand Galvez Hotel | Galveston, Texas

    Centered in the circular driveway and surrounded by tropical palm trees, the four-tiered marble fountain, produced in Italy and featuring dolphins, griffins, and peacocks, creates a grand sense of arrival that is amplified once you enter and see the show-stopping mosaic on the lobby floor.


    The Global Appeal of Public Art in Airports

    The Global Appeal of Public Art in Airports

    Passport Magazine has always been a resource to guide, inspire and encourage LGBTQ travelers and their friends to discover deeper, richer and more fulfilling experiences at home and around the world through compelling story-telling online, in print, with video and through live events.


    5 Tales of Bizarre Holiday Gift-Giving

    5 Tales of Bizarre Holiday Gift-Giving

    Sometimes run like Secret Santas, other times as free-for-alls where anyone can fulfill anyone else’s request, they might be hyper-specific or genre-wide, but often they involve things that are already popular in the fandom world—think pop-culture juggernauts like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or the manga My Hero Academia, or CW’s Supernatural.


    Hirosaki Castle

    Hirosaki Castle

    In 1810, the daimyo lord finally got permission to reconstruct a watchtower—the government agreed as the Russian presence grew in the Tsugaru Strait—and had a new keep built instead, which could have been a capital offense were it not for the project being cleverly undertaken.