The Hippie Tree – Traverse City, Michigan. Deep in the woods outside the Old State Hospital Grounds in Traverse City, Michigan, down a small steep path at the edge of a clearing, lie the bones of a sprawling old willow.
The heart of the tree has long since rotted, but life still persists from the tips of its branches. The pale trunks are adorned in layer upon layer of lurid, neon paint left there by generations of local painters. Pavilion Built for a King Sits Within Golden Cave in Thailand. Photo: Stock Photos from Southtownboy Studio/ShutterstockThis post may contain affiliate links.
If you make a purchase, My Modern Met may earn an affiliate commission. Please read our disclosure for more info. Thailand is filled with spectacular scenery, but nothing is perhaps as magical as what’s hidden within the Phraya Nakhon Cave. With a location that’s not simple to access, it takes adventurous travelers to make their way to the cave. But, if the visit is timed just right, those who make it will be rewarded with a spectacular vision. The Khuha Kharuehat Pavilion was built for King Chulalongkorn’s visit in 1890.
Located within the Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, which is situated in the northern part of the Malay peninsula, it does take some effort to get to it. Atlasobscura. Mice are not usually a welcome sight in libraries and archives, especially when those buildings house the entire historical record of a country.
But in a surprisingly whimsical gesture, the National Archives of Finland has appointed a tiny furry ambassador to greet guests. With a pencil hefted on one shoulder, the diminutive rodent appears ready to sign documents, sketch portraits, or perhaps build a tiny log cabin. Catching lightning in a volcanic bottle. Elizabethan Slang. Terms and Slang -- Lower Class and Underworld Notes: c = Cant A-swame Fainting Abject To cast out.
To reject. Abram, Abraham (c) a lunatic or mad; naked. Abram-man, Abraham-man (c) a category of vagrant who excited sympathy or fear in onlookers by feigning madness. Atlasobscura. The Magical Underground City Carved Entirely out of Salt Rock. Few underground cities in the world are sculpted entirely out of rock salt.
That’s the magic of Poland’s fantastic Wieliczka Salt Mine, near the city of Kraków. A famed tourist attraction, a site of worship and even weddings, a gripping gallery of artistic reliefs, everything in Wieliczka is carved from salt blocks. Mining operations stopped in 1996, but for many centuries in the past Wieliczka was the most significant cog in the local region’s economy. Inside the mine. Photo by Dino Quinzani CC BY-SA 2.0 Salt was recognized as a precious resource in medieval times for its preservative properties, and this led to increased exploitation of it.
In fact, by Renaissance times, it seems there wasn’t any other more lucrative business in Europe than this mine. Underground cutaway view of the Wieliczka Salt Mine. Royals regularly visited the venture, but it was miners who spent days and nights here, endlessly intruding the earth, creating new shafts and digging out new caves.
Atlasobscura. Work progresses on Cincinnati’s subway in 1920.
But the construction would soon stop for good. (Courtesy University of Cincinnati Library Archives) Interstate 75 slices the city of Cincinnati in half like an orange. On one side is the city’s Catholic working class west, while the east side is favored by the wealthier academics and industrials holed up in enclaves with names like Indian Hill. On all sides are cars. But it was almost a different story. The Cincinnati subway stations are still there.
Today, the warren of underground tunnels appears flash-frozen in time, an underground Vesuvius where the clock stopped. Cincinnati’s subway would have been 30 or 40 feet below street level. Almost exactly 100 years ago the automobile was still in its infancy and cities were looking for ways to shuttle their burgeoning populations from downtown workplaces to the nascent suburbs. Then, “the world changed so much, so quickly after the war,” Mecklenborg says. Chloe Dewe Mathews. Atlasobscura. Atlasobscura. Check Out This Crazy Hell-Themed Nightclub From The 1890s. When you hear the word "nightclub," what do you immediately think of?
"Crowded? " "Loud? " An excuse to not hang out with the person who just suggested that? Sure, many nightclubs look like Google Image results for "default hip club," but that wasn't always the case throughout history. Back in the late 1890s, a handful of French nightclubs took on themes that were more in line with John Milton than Lil Jon. via io9Paradise Lost ... its dignity. A series of "Heaven" and "Hell"-themed clubs sprung up in turn-of-the-century Paris. Right next door to Cabaret de l'Enfer was Cabaret du Ciel ("The Cabaret of the Sky"), a Heaven-themed club where women dressed in white robes with angel wings would take drink orders while a guy dressed as St. So the next time you're bored and checking your phone at an endless nightclub bathroom line, just think that a hundred years ago, you could've been getting roasted by a French dude in Satan makeup. You know what's just as fun as a hell-themed nightclub?