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Podcast: Knight’s Spider Web Farm

The helpers behind these one-of-a-kind art pieces have eight legs.
The Podcast Team July 27, 2023
Kendal, England

Kendal’s Smallest Windows

Two minuscule windows are tucked inside this medieval building.
Itinerary

The Gastro Obscura Guide to Asheville Area Eats

A food and drink mecca awaits you in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains.
One of the founders of Israel's Tractor Museum, the late Gideon Grosman, restores a small Murray plow.
engineering

How Farmers Are Preserving Israel’s Disappearing Agricultural Legacy—One Tractor At a Time

At the Tractor Museum, every machine has a story.
Gitit Ginat April 25, 2023
All illustrations: John Mata for Atlas Obscura
farms

Puzzle Monday: Meet Some Obscure Livestock Crossword

AO Puzzles March 20, 2023
Workum, Netherlands

It Lân Skip

A farm turned upside down.
Site of memorial plaque
Placerville, California

Wakamatsu Farm

This short-lived tea and silk farm is believed to be the first permanent Japanese settlement in North America.
Andrus, with his farmhands.
farms

The Duck Brigade Behind a Farmer's Plentiful Rice Harvest

Erik Andrus is bringing the Japanese art of aigamo to Vermont.
Jillian Dara January 19, 2023
Robert Burns Ellisland Farm
Holywood, Scotland

Robert Burns Ellisland Farm

Experience history from the stomping grounds of the great Scottish poet.
Jon Jandai cultivates and saves the seeds of rare and indigenous plants at the Pun Pun Center for Self Reliance.
farms

How Thailand's 'Happiness Farmer' Built an Oasis of Simple Living

A revolution in food-growing, home-building, and seed-saving is afoot outside Chiang Mai.
Sam Lin-Sommer November 23, 2022
museums

Podcast: The Thompson Ice House

People gather every winter at this Maine museum to take part in the age-old process of harvesting ice from a frozen pond.
Whether you call it shunka warak'in, the Rocky Mountain hyena or simply the beast, a mysterious canid preyed upon livestock in Montana in the late 1880s.
cryptozoology

Beware Montana’s Shunka Warak’in, the 'Rocky Mountain Hyena'

Is one of these crafty cryptids on display in a small museum?
J.W. Ocker October 19, 2022
Decatur, Georgia

Sugar Creek Garden and Herb Farm

On land once deemed “valueless,” a multipurpose community garden proves the potential of urban farming.
museums

Video: Step Back In Time In Plano

Though Plano now houses many modern business campuses, this North Texas community never lost sight of its historical roots.
A five-acre pasture on the McCullen family farm, dominated by an old stone tower, has turned out to be the site of both a medieval monasterial complex and Neolithic ruins.
farms

How a Farmer's Hunch Led to a Lost Monastery and a Neolithic Surprise

The rediscovered medieval complex of Beaubec is unique in all of Ireland—and it's just the most recent layer of history unearthed in a humble pasture.
Matt McIntosh July 28, 2022
The winding parkway offers stunning views of the surrounding mountains.
Itinerary

6 Extraordinary Restaurants Along the Blue Ridge Parkway

Road Trips
Sam O'Brien
An aerial view of some of the fields at Wadi al-Dawasir.
Wadi ad-Dawasir, Saudi Arabia

Wadi al-Dawasir

These desert alfalfa farms redefine the meaning of crop circles.
Within the flat enclose of the D-shaped fort
Monreith, Scotland

Barsalloch Fort

A 2,000-year-old Iron Age fort offers stunning ocean views.