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.