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Los Angeles, California

Highland Park Bowl

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.
Wikitongues cofounder Freddie Andrade speaks with Caroline Jabulile White, a Gullah speaker and cultural activist from Charleston, South Carolina.
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Inside an Effort to Document Every Single Language on Earth

Wikitongues offers video samples of Lemerig, Texas German, Aranese, and many more.
Evan Nicole Brown January 31, 2019
The hotel entrance.
Istanbul, Turkey

Pera Palace Hotel

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.
The "aljibe" or cistern beneath the Cáceres Museum.
Cáceres, Spain

Moorish Cistern of Cáceres

The largest medieval water tank on the Iberian Peninsula is preserved beneath the Cáceres Museum.
The medieval walls of Ávila.
Ávila, Spain

Medieval Walls of Ávila

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.
art

Reviving—and Reinventing—the Magic of Khmer Classical Dance

Cambodia's first LGBTQ dance company has big dreams.
Lizzie Philip December 10, 2018
Baby mountain gorilla in Virunga National Park.
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Virunga National Park

The most biologically diverse protected area in Africa is also the most dangerous.
Kamianets'-podil's'kyi, Ukraine

Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle

This Ukranian fortress is one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Europe.
sacred spaces

The Muslims Preserving Kolkata’s Last Jewish Synagogues

"It's not ours or theirs, it's for both of us."
Lizzie Philip November 26, 2018
Old Slater Mill and Wilkinson Mill (on the left).
Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Old Slater Mill

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.
Speyer, Germany

Speyer Wine Bottle

Aged nearly 1,700 years, the world's oldest bottle of wine is probably still drinkable.
View of the house.
Madrid, Spain

Peironcely 10

An iconic photograph from the Spanish Civil War saved this shrapnel-scarred historic house from destruction.
Aerial view of Fort Egbert.
Eagle, Alaska

Fort Egbert

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.
Gastro Obscura

Harðfiskur

The pungent, wind-dried white fish is a traditional Icelandic food.
Museumsgården.
Læsø, Denmark

Museumsgården

This antique farmhouse is one of Læsø's rare seaweed houses.
Brixton Windmill
London, England

Brixton Windmill

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.
The temple.
Atherton, Australia

Hou Wang Temple

The last timber and iron Chinese temple in Australia.
The Bailey walls of Berkhamsted Castle.
Berkhamsted, England

Berkhamsted Castle

This early Norman castle was the first historical monument protected by an act of Parliament.