Discover the diverse world of gingers: from common ginger to fingerroot, lantern ginger, sand ginger and galangal. Learn about their unique flavors, uses in Southeast Asian cuisine, and availability.
Explore the Cavalier Hotel's rich history: from luxury with seawater baths and celebrity guests, to its WWII service and recent restoration. Discover its art-deco architecture and Tarnished Truth distillery.
The F60, a massive overburden conveyor bridge, was built in East Germany for lignite mining. Decommissioned after reunification, it's now a visitor attraction showcasing mining history and hosting events.
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The Shime Coal Mine Winding Tower, Japan's last surviving tower, operated from 1889-1964. Known online as the 'Anti-Zombie Fortress' due to its Brutalist style, it's now a sports park and Concrete Cultural Property.
Evidence of the local music scene is also abundant with posters, art, tapestries, stickers, instruments, and album covers adorning the walls.
This is important for those without access to dense forests near their homes or workplaces, as a short walk in a city park can still have a meaningful impact on mental well-being.
But as I sat in the library, watching an old newsreel showing the heyday of Brownsville’s downtown when the sidewalks were crowded with shoppers and the future seemed bright and full of promise, the toll of Ernest Liggett’s failed pie-in-the-sky projects seemed unconscionably severe.
Go 20.7 miles east on US 20 from its intersection with NE 3rd Street (US 97 Business) in downtown Bend to the junction (at about 43.90041 N, 120.98745 W) with USFS 23 and turn right (south).
With so many animals willing to lend a helping claw, trunk, or foot, some scientists say land managers should start looking at boosting the populations of these and other species as part of their fire mitigation and restoration plans.
A former Atlas Obscura staff editor, she regularly contributes to the New York Times, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Wired, Gizmodo, Culture Trip, Mental Floss, and the AV Club, among others.
Believing that travel to Earth’s remote reaches presented “an incredible opportunity to expose people to the wonder of the world so that they might think differently about the planet and our role in protecting it,” Lindblad made history in 1966 by taking the first citizen tourists to Antarctica aboard a chartered Argentinian Navy ship.
