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Jun 27, 2024 · The monoliths have appeared in various locations across the U.S., from state parks to the frontyards of private homes.
Aug 29, 2024 · The map above looks at various cultural regions of the United States, dividing the country into distinct areas based on cultural, historical, and sometimes geographical differences.
Jul 31, 2021 · Key Takeaways. This map replaces geography with another type of closeness: cultural values. Although the groups it depicts have familiar names, their shapes are not. The map makes for strange...
In this article, we’re setting off to explore some of the weirdest and quirkiest small towns in the United States. These hidden gems are bursting with odd attractions, unusual traditions and locals who embrace the wonderfully strange.
- St. Gregory of Nyssa. WHERE: San Francisco, CA. Murals of “secular saints” like Anne Frank, Malcolm X, Charles Darwin, jazz musicians Ella Fitzgerald and John Coltrane, Cesar Chavez, Margaret Mead, and Persian poet/mystic Rumi adorn the rotunda of this Episcopal church in the Potrero Hill neighborhood.
- Chapel of the Holy Cross. WHERE: Sedona, Arizona. This striking, modernist-style church built into the red rocks of Sedona offers panoramic views from its floor-to-ceiling window of the Verde Valley.
- Stavkirke. WHERE: Washington Island, Wisconsin. A reproduction of the Borgund Stave Church, built in 1150 in western Norway near Laerdal and the Sognefjorden–the country’s longest and deepest fjord–this wooden Lutheran church reflects this island’s strong Scandinavian heritage, mostly from Iceland.
- Christ Cathedral. WHERE: Garden Grove, California. The Crystal Cathedral, the megachurch for a Protestant televangelist who preached on TV’s most popular religious show during the 1980s (and the world’s biggest glass structure when it opened in 1980), re-opened in 2019 as a Catholic church.
There are now thousands of wonders listed in the United States, and we’ve plotted each and every one of them on this interactive map.
Aug 30, 2021 · As examples, in their 2020 article, Muthukrishna and colleagues used an American scale to calculate countries’ cultural distance from the United States and a Chinese scale to calculate countries’ cultural distance from China (see Figure 1).
