local history

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• Abandoned Places

Marobo Hot Springs of East Timor: the most remote hot springs in all of Asia?

5 years ago Ivan

2 min read

• Food

Pão de Ló de Ovar: a cake so gooey that requires a spoon.

5 years ago Ivan

2 min read

• Travel

Sia Maubara: a historic place in East Timor that is now home to thousands of birds

5 years ago Ivan

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• Abandoned Places

Casa Sirena of Oxnard, California – the Seaside Resort frozen in time

5 years ago Nathan

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• Food

Xuixo: the original Cronut named after a legendary acrobat’s sneeze.

5 years ago Ivan

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• Travel

The ghosts of New Orleans’ St. Louis Cathedral

5 years ago Leo S

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Spudnut: America’s Forgotten Halloween Treat

5 years ago Leo S

5 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

The curious story of Witch’s Ladder

5 years ago Anya

7 min read

• History

The “Witch Cake” – a 1600s forgotten recipe you probably won’t try

5 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

The mystery of the mummified bishop and the stillborn fetus in his coffin

5 years ago Nathan

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Poor Clares Convent Cemetery of Ischia, Italy, and its macabre story

5 years ago Ivan

3 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Fastnet Lighthouse: the story behind “Ireland’s Teardrop”

5 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• Abandoned Places

Neversink Mountains, Witch’s Hat Pavilion and ruins of its glorious past

5 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Shabla Lighthouse: the oldest lighthouse on the balkan peninsular

5 years ago Ivan

4 min read

• Travel

The Old Fairy Bridge of the Isle of Man (and how to find it)

5 years ago Leo S

5 min read

• Myths and Legends

White deer in myths and legends

5 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Buried under a boulder: the grave of Meg Shelton, the Woodplumpton Witch

5 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• History

The Protest Pig: a rare breed designed to be a living (and breathing) flag

5 years ago Pavel

3 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

Ubang: the village where men and women speak different languages

5 years ago Robin

2 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Valentia Lighthouse at Cromwell Point

5 years ago Nathan

4 min read

• Travel

Nikiszowiec: Katowice’s old mining district

5 years ago Anya

6 min read

• Myths and Legends

The owl of Cwm Cowlyd and the oldest animals in the world

5 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Mittie Manning’s Tomb: one of Mississippi’s most unique tombs

5 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Travel

“The Lost XVII”: a missing Roman legion was recreated in sculpture along a Scottish cycling route

5 years ago Nathan

5 min read

• Myths and Legends

The Sluagh: Celtic spirits of the unforgiven dead

5 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

A visit to the St. Simons Island Light, Georgia

5 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Piscatawaytown Burial Ground and the witch of Edison

5 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Travel

Rotomairewhenua: the clearest body of fresh water known to man

5 years ago Robin

2 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Loop Head Lighthouse | Ireland

5 years ago Nathan

2 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Muschats’s Cairn: a stack of stones that honors a murdered 18th-century woman.

5 years ago Robin

2 min read

• Travel

Te Wairoa Buried Village: a Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

5 years ago Robin

4 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Point Sur Lightstation: one of the oldest and most remote lighthouses in California

5 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The grave of ‘The Great Lafayette’ and his beloved dog in Edinburgh’s Piershill Cemetery

5 years ago Ivan

1 min read

• Food

Here is the story behind the Leidse Koffie!

5 years ago Robin

3 min read

• Travel

Camp Bonifas: the world’s most dangerous golf course that can literally kill you

5 years ago Danilo

2 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

St John’s Point – the tallest onshore lighthouse on the Irish coast

5 years ago Nathan

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Grave of Midnight Mary: the final resting place of a New Haven urban legend

5 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Travel

Hoshizuna-no-Hama: Japan’s amazing star sand beach

5 years ago Pavel

3 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Oregon’s Heceta Head Lighthouse and its stories

5 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Theodore “Fodor” Glava: the vampire of Lafayette

5 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Travel

The Well of Barhout: Yemen’s mysterious Well of Hell

5 years ago Robin

3 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

Bobbie, the wonder dog who walked 2,500 miles to home

5 years ago Nathan