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30Edinburgh Anatomical Museum – Atlas Obscura
The University of Edinburgh has had several notable graduates—including luminaries such as Charles Darwin and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—study under its school...
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Why Pennsylvania Rings in the New Year With Bologna and Peeps
This article is adapted from the January 4, 2025, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. ...
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14Tell us about an alternative European carnival to win a holiday voucher | Travel
With its masked balls, extravagant costumes and colourful parades, the Venice carnival is famous throughout the world. But across Europe, less-known events...
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Susan and John Sykes Ars Sonora
Standing at the center of the University of Tampa campus is a uniquely sophisticated, 105-foot-tall musical instrument called the Ars Sonora. The...
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12How I learned to paint in St Ives, Cornwall | Cornwall holidays
There was the briefest moment late on Sunday afternoon when, standing back from the easel, paintbrush in hand, I almost felt like an...
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26How I learned to fly-fish on the banks of the Thames | Fishing holidays
Fishing has been one of those things, like pottery classes, or going on a yoga retreat in Ibiza, that I’ve never tried...
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33How I learned to navigate in the Welsh mountains | Snowdonia holidays
Maps can be cumbersome things. Especially when it’s windy. They can be pretty confounding even when the elements are in your favour....
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34Give and take: I went on a volunteering holiday in Dorset – and learned stone masonry in return | Volunteering holidays
I climb the ladder leading to the scaffold tower and haul myself on to the platform, followed by the bucket of cement...
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Old Letters Reveal a 100-Year-Old Con With a Bank in Florida
My mother, Stephanie, doesn’t remember much about when she found the mysterious letters. The year was 1975, she was 10, and her...
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Corfu Museum of Asian Art
Housed in the Palace of Archangel Michael and St. George, a Neoclassical building constructed in the early 19th century by the British,...
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Coming Home: Our Favorite Reads
As weary winter travelers make their way back from holiday destinations, or put the decorations away and prepare their spaces for the...
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Mary Anning’s Grave – Atlas Obscura
Despite the barriers she faced as a working-class woman with little formal education, Mary Anning was one of the most influential fossil...
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56‘A lesson like no other’: readers’ favourite learning holidays | Travel
Rail, sail and learn to surf in Portrush, County Antrim We took the train to Birkenhead then overnight ferry (new Stena boat...
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Sacromonte Abbey – Atlas Obscura
Between 1594 and 1606, people discovered Roman-era underground ovens in the hills to the west of Granada, Spain. Within one of these...
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Bendhu – Atlas Obscura
Architect Newton Penprase, originally from Cornwall, started building this house in 1936. Intended for Penprase himself to live in, the house’s name...
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Vienna’s “Blood Alley Quarter” – Atlas Obscura
Blutgassenviertel, or “Blood Alley Quarter,” is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Vienna, originally founded around the mid-14th century. Throughout its history,...
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25Pottering in the Potteries: exploring the museums and ceramics studios of Stoke-on-Trent | Staffordshire holidays
As a lump of damp clay spins frantically on the potter’s wheel, I tentatively ease my fingers around it, hoping it will...
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Northampton Bank Robbery Mural – Atlas Obscura
In downtown Northampton, on the corner of Main and Central Streets, an eye-catching mural commemorates a historic crime. The mural is at...
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10 Travel Resolutions From Atlas Obscura for 2025
New Year’s resolutions can feel a little grim. This year, I’ll reduce my screen time. In 2025, I’ll walk 10,000 steps every...
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22Happy new you! 10 of the best UK wellbeing retreats for 2025 | Health and fitness holidays
Mountain retreat, Monmouthshire At the foot of Skirrid Mountain near Abergavenny, Wonderful Escapes is a converted 16th-century farm that now welcomes guests...
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Maultaschen – Gastro Obscura
The origins of Germany’s Maultaschen are deliciously devious. Legend has it that, in the late Middle Ages, a lay brother named Jakob...
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Tiquira – Gastro Obscura
Indigenous Brazilians have fermented alcoholic beverages from the cassava root for thousands of years. These beer-like beverages go by names like cauim,...
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