Walking routes, local wineries, historic sites and landmarks around L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in Vaucluse, France, including the Plague Wall, Village des Bories, Sénanque Abbey and Fontaine-de-Vaucluse.
France
Historic buildings in Segovia dating from the 16th century, including churches, convents, palaces, hospitals and the Royal Mint. The sites trace the city's Golden Age, when textile prosperity was followed by decline amid the Comuneros' Revolt and plague.
Spain
Photographed signs, drawings and street art, including a plague doctor mask, a heron, fish graffiti and a Godzilla mural, in Calvados, Oise and Somme, France.
France
Places associated with the plague in Indre-et-Loire, France, including Loches, Tours, Barrou and Le Grand-Pressigny.
France
Historic and artistic landmarks in Borgo Valsugana, Trentino, including Castel Telvana, churches, an oratory built after the plague, and the Venetian-style bridge.
Italy
Skrave is the rural area around Langetved and Københoved in northern Sønderjylland, Denmark. The area’s history includes a settlement near Skrave Church that was abandoned after most of its inhabitants died during a plague epidemic.
Denmark
Historical sites related to medicine and public health in Ukraine, including monuments, a physician’s tomb, a medical university and a plague memorial in Lviv, Kharkiv and Odesa.
Ukraine
Historic landmarks and a walking route in Vienna, including Belvedere Palace, the Imperial Crypt, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, the Plague Column and the Vienna State Opera.
Austria
Tour dates for Riding Lights’ play about the 1665 plague outbreak in Eyam, Derbyshire, and the community’s decision to isolate itself. Performances were scheduled at churches, schools and other venues across the UK from September to November 2013.
United Kingdom
Public art installations, murals, community design projects and walking and cycling routes exploring Hong Kong’s neighbourhood culture. Features the 2021 transFORM harbourfront works along Victoria Harbour and community-led design and local businesses in Sham Shui Po and Wan…
Hong Kong
Vacant, substandard and dangerous buildings in Sacramento, with code case types and the years cases were opened.
United States
Home Halloween yard displays in London and St. Thomas, Ontario, entered in a 2020 contest with categories for overall displays, themes, static props and animatronics.
Canada
Gang violence and shooting totals in Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Newburgh and Poughkeepsie, New York, from January through August 2021.
United States
Reports of unexplained heavy bass music from Salem County towns in New Jersey to Wilmington and northern New Castle County, Delaware, including possible sources and earlier similar incidents near Gloucester City and Camden.
United States
Travel sights, markets, museums, historic neighborhoods, parks and suggested routes across Spain, with a focus on Barcelona, Madrid and Andalusia, including Málaga, Córdoba and Granada.
Spain
Historic sites in lower Manhattan connected with New York City's 1832 cholera epidemic, including hospitals, churches, homes, public spaces and locations associated with the city's response to the disease.
United States
Police and medic responses to heroin and suspected opiate overdoses in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, during one week in December 2016, documenting incidents across homes, apartments and a motel.
United States
A hiking pilgrimage from Munich to Oberammergau, following part of the Way of St James along the Isar and Loisach rivers before crossing Bavarian Alpine passes via Walchensee and Benediktbeuern Abbey. The route ends with the 2022 Oberammergau Passion Play.
Germany
Public-urination hotspots in San Francisco where the city applied splash-back paint, including walls, stairwells, garage alcoves and utility boxes across several central neighbourhoods.
United States
Named public squares and pedestrian plazas in Los Angeles, including sites the author calls “bullshit squares” because they are dominated by cars, as well as former and rejected squares. The map also compares squares in other cities.
United States
A circular cycling route through limestone dales and countryside in Derbyshire, visiting Tideswell, Miller's Dale and the historic village of Eyam, with pubs and cafés along the way.
United Kingdom
Halloween events for families and adults across London, including pumpkin workshops, themed parties, museum sleepovers, haunted attractions, ghost tours and spooky underground experiences.
United Kingdom
Reported Jersey Devil encounters from the legend’s origins at Leeds Point through later sightings across New Jersey, especially the Pine Barrens and South Jersey. Accounts describe alleged encounters, strange sounds and tracks, and sightings from the 18th century to 2008.
United States
Milwaukee roads identified as having the most pothole-related claims filed against the city, including Lisbon Avenue, Silver Spring, Bradley Road and 107th Street.
United States
Reported graffiti hotspots in Seattle and nearby communities, including parks, underpasses, train corridors, trails, buildings and highway noise walls. Entries include reader and neighborhood-blog reports of vandalism and local responses.
United States
Research on vote-splitting in mayoral elections across major U.S. cities, recording the winning candidate’s vote share and whether each city had a majority-minority electorate. The Center for Election Science’s 2019 study focuses on elections in the country’s 154 most populous…
United States
A fictional post-apocalyptic world in 287 PCE, charting political powers, settlements, landmarks and events after the Calamity and Great Collapse. Its regions span multiple countries and include successor empires, tribal territories, ruined cities and conflicts.
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Waterways across Florida affected by pollution from fertilizer, sewage and animal manure, with photographs documenting the contamination and locations identified by waterbody and county. Compiled by the Sierra Club from clean-water activists and advocacy organizations.
United States
Places and journeys in Paul Bowles’s novel The Sheltering Sky, from Oran in Algeria through Saharan towns and desert routes to the vicinity of Tessalit in Mali, with excerpts illustrating the story’s settings.
Algeria, Mali
A planned GPS-drawing route tracing an Akabeko, or red cow, through Ushigayato in Kawajima, Saitama Prefecture, as part of a project to draw the figure in Japanese place names containing “cow.”
Japan