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Generations of Handwritten Mexican Cookbooks Are Now Online

11 February 2020 0

ift.tt/31JNRoq The story of Mexican food is usually told as…

The Joy of Collecting Stamps From Countries That Don’t Really Exist

7 February 2020 0

ift.tt/3bkWr16 The postage stamp looks like a postage stamp is supposed to look: white, perforated edges, and part of a circular cancellation mark in the corner. It also has the country and postage clearly printed, though its depiction of the…

A Look Back at America’s Psychedelic Countercultural Witch Music

1 November 2017 0

Louise Huebner, Official Witch of Los Angeles County, making turtle…

Nushabad Underground City in Nushabad, Iran

1 November 2017 0

Just north of Kashan, in the small town of Nushabad,…

The Modern Lives of Medieval Monster Scholars

1 November 2017 0

A smattering of beings described as monstrous in medieval times,…

Lithia Water Fountain in Ashland, Oregon

10 November 2016 0

—- Lithia Water Fountain in Ashland, Oregon // Atlas Obscura…

Toruń Gingerbread Museum in Toruń, Poland

1 November 2016 0

ift.tt/2f63ukf The art of making gingerbread has it’s origins in…

In the 1800s, Sick People Would Consult Cookbooks Before Doctors

28 October 2016 0

ift.tt/2eYbfpV Typical items in an 18th-century kitchen. Public Domain In…

The Horrifying Legacy of the Victorian Tapeworm Diet

26 October 2016 0

From horrifying foot-binding practices in Imperial China to life-threatening surgeries in modernity,…

The Exquisite Drawings from the First Map of the Entire Sky

24 October 2016 0

ift.tt/2eL2m1D Since the very first star charts carved into mammoth…

Digging Through the Archives of Scarfolk, the Internet’s Creepiest Fake Town

17 October 2016 0

img.youtube.com/vi/slJyhOEo-SY/0.jpg Let’s take a moment to explain the picture above. In…