Salon.com > Megan Cytron http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Rocks worthy of legend http://www.salon.com/2011/11/06/geological_myths_trazzler/ http://www.salon.com/2011/11/06/geological_myths_trazzler/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10161218 Before science became humanity's preferred method for understanding the natural world, myth and geology went hand in hand. Anyone who travels a bit is sure to run across local legends that strive to explain odd natural phenomena in fictional terms. Every single culture around the world tells these kinds of stories. There's the Chimera of Turkey (methane gas vents in the side of a mountain rendered by Homer as a fire-breathing "lion-fronted, snake behind, goat in the middle" creature); the fire-belching goddess Pele living in Hawaii's Kilauea crater; or the story of a pair of mountains that split due to irreconcilable differences (Mount Rainier took off in the heat of an argument packing up all the prettiest wildflowers).

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/11/06/geological_myths_trazzler/feed/ 0 The world’s spookiest attractions http://www.salon.com/2011/10/30/macabre_spots_trazzler/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/30/macabre_spots_trazzler/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10147825 Let's start from the premise that the tourism industry is, quite frequently, a freak show. And not just on Halloween ... plenty of places keep it surreal all year round. Why? Luring people into your temple, museum, medical school, church or crypt isn't as easy as you might think. You need a hook.

While severed body parts and corpses may not have a tourist-brochure ring, gore sells. Catholic churches have been collecting bodies and relics for pilgrims to visit for centuries. Little bits of the Buddha are scattered in shrines around the globe. Medical curiosities and oddities fill glass cases and jars in museum sideshows.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/10/30/macabre_spots_trazzler/feed/ 2 Graves of the rich and famous http://www.salon.com/2011/10/23/famous_graves_trazzler/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/23/famous_graves_trazzler/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10131257 The rich, the famous, the powerful, the fabulously talented ... so hard for mere mortals to mingle with in life,  so easy to linger with in death. Making a pilgrimage to a famous grave can be an odd experience, particularly when it isn't where you might expect. Who would think to look for James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges in Switzerland -- or F. Scott Fitzgerald among the strip-mall hell of suburban D.C.?  Death just happens. Those on the brink of death can get caught unawares, left to spend eternity in a place they scarcely knew or were just passing through, or be forcibly brought back home by family after a long escape (like poor Charlie Parker, who ended up back in Kansas against his wishes).

Irony, apparently, isn't just for the living. While Fitzgerald's gravestone is an austere afterthought, the man who wrote about turning to dirt on someone's boot soles, Walt Whitman, commissioned an expensive granite mausoleum before his death. It's no surprise that the poet spent his final years reworking his magnum opus "Leaves of Grass" for the umpteenth time, but the fact that he did so while also carefully overseeing the construction of his own tomb feels like quite a departure for the man who philosophized about the soul and vowed to "make poems of my body and of mortality."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/10/23/famous_graves_trazzler/feed/ 3 Sandwiches across America http://www.salon.com/2011/10/16/sandwiches_across_america/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/16/sandwiches_across_america/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:01:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10110469 So many are fond of misguided generalizations, calling America a Christian nation, a zombie nation, a TV nation ... but it was chef and food writer James Beard who hit the nail on the head: America is a sandwich nation.

Sandwiches are the food of the people -- cheap, nutritious, easy to assemble in large quantities -- what better vehicle for delivering the flavors of a regionally and ethnically diverse nation to people on the move?

The only thing aristocratic about sandwiches is the name -- borrowed from John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, a rather unenlightened Enlightenment-era figure who most certainly did not pioneer the concept of placing delectable morsels between two pieces of bread. He may, however, have had a penchant for snacking combined with an aversion to getting his fingers dirty -- and he did play some part in making sandwiches trendy for the first time.

It was during the industrial revolution that the sandwich took off as a portable and easy-to-eat meal for workers. In America, wave after wave of new arrivals reinterpreted the form. Thanks to them, today there are sandwiches that add up to far more than the sum of their parts. A symbol of local identity and heritage, the most beloved among them inspire loyalty, passion and a cultlike following.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/10/16/sandwiches_across_america/feed/ 0 What you can learn at a battlefield http://www.salon.com/2011/10/09/trazzler_slideshow_battlefields/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/09/trazzler_slideshow_battlefields/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10103917 Witnessing the battle at Chancellorsville, Whitman wrote about the haunting beauty of nature juxtaposed with terrible suffering: "Amid the woods, that scene of flitting souls -- amid the crack and crash and yelling sounds -- the impalpable perfume of the woods -- and yet the pungent, stifling smoke -- the radiance of the moon." In the absence of politically motivated shrines, nostalgic reenactors or Walmart parking lots, the battlefields of the past tend to be peaceful places of contemplation -- blank, benign spaces where we are required to re-create this stark juxtaposition, filling in the horror and conjuring up the history with our imagination.

Does visiting a battlefield make war "real" for those who have never experienced it -- I don't think so.  It does, however, give us a deeper and more concrete understanding of historical events as physical experiences, rather than academic esoterica, allowing us to contemplate the terrain, the terrible logistics of war, and the tactics employed by the winners and losers. While we can't feel the wounds, we can sense the scars and wonder how it must have been.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/10/09/trazzler_slideshow_battlefields/feed/ 4 Leaf peeping across the country http://www.salon.com/2011/10/02/leaf_peeping_across_the_country/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/02/leaf_peeping_across_the_country/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10101755 There's just something about October ... the waning light, the long shadows, the reap-what-you-sow natural order of things. We may not live in an agrarian society anymore, but most of us still feel a primal pull this time of year to the fields and forests of the fall countryside. A whole travel industry has sprung up to accommodate our desire to do little more than meander under the blue skies and look at leaves.

If the story of spring is a fragile romance full of hope, then that would make autumn a perfectly plotted, three-act tragedy we can't tear ourselves away from. Blossoms are ephemeral, but we know a long summer is waiting in the wings once they fall to the ground. Autumn's climactic last burst of color and deciduous denouement stirs different, perhaps deeper feelings. These 13 drives will take you into the leafy heart of North America where you can revel in fall's fleeting beauty. Share your favorite fall road trips in the comments.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/10/02/leaf_peeping_across_the_country/feed/ 5 The breathtaking world under the sea http://www.salon.com/2011/09/25/trazzler_slideshow_coral_reefs/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/25/trazzler_slideshow_coral_reefs/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:01:00 +0000 In "The Silent World," Jacques Cousteau identified the moment when he came unbolted from his terrestrial life, discovering a new way of being the sea: "I put my eyes under and civilization vanished ... I was in a jungle never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof." It's hard to imagine what the average human's understanding of ocean life was before scuba tanks and nature documentaries. Even Cousteau started out blowing up reefs to study them. As he traversed the oceans, what began as an existential quest evolved into a growing consciousness of the fragility and interconnectedness of all living things on Earth -- and a call for conservation.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/09/25/trazzler_slideshow_coral_reefs/feed/ 3 Exploring the subterranean cityscape http://www.salon.com/2011/09/18/trazzler_slideshow_urban_spelunking/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/18/trazzler_slideshow_urban_spelunking/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/09/18/trazzler_slideshow_urban_spelunking Beneath all cities, lies an alternate dimension, not necessarily the "dark, underground, loathsome vice" of Dostoevsky (though there's plenty of that, too), but a real warren of subterranean spaces that is mostly hidden or off-limits to surface dwellers. Many communities were intentionally founded above natural caves, which proved useful for food storage, refrigeration, defensive purposes and escaping extreme weather. Other towns were carved into solid rock or set atop tunnels for protection from invasion.

These underground spaces tell a ramshackle story of human civilization and urban development from poorly conceived shopping malls to wine cellars, escape routes, storage facilities for human bones, and conduits to whisk away human waste. These days, thanks to sophisticated mapping programs and social networking, nearly every city has a legion of underground spelunkers looking to make the next discovery of a forgotten entrance to the urban underworld. But you don't have to trespass or risk your life to explore the world beneath your feet -- plenty of towns are taking a cue from the 19th-century Paris of Victor Hugo, offering opportunities to embark on underground tourism.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/09/18/trazzler_slideshow_urban_spelunking/feed/ 4 Wonders of the medieval world http://www.salon.com/2011/09/11/trazzler_slideshow_middle_ages/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/11/trazzler_slideshow_middle_ages/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/09/11/trazzler_slideshow_middle_ages Medieval Europe is often portrayed as a dark time of pestilence, filth, violence, intolerance and ignorance -- a disconnect between the splendor of the Roman empire and the cultural explosion of humanism during the Renaissance. The truth is far more complicated.

Geniuses like Fibonacci, Averroes, Aquinas and Dante didn't exist in a vacuum. Universities that are still in existence today were founded during this time, Aristotle was revived, books came into their own, and the mathematical and scientific advances of the Muslim world filtered into art, design and architecture from the periphery of the continent. These 11 spots reveal a glimpse of the cultural and artistic splendor of the Middle Ages. You can find more medieval travel spots on Trazzler.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/09/11/trazzler_slideshow_middle_ages/feed/ 18 The migrations you can’t miss http://www.salon.com/2011/09/04/trazzler_wildlife_migration/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/04/trazzler_wildlife_migration/#comments Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/09/04/trazzler_wildlife_migration We human beings tend to think of ourselves as an adventurous species, but the way we travel is really nothing compared to the migratory odysseys of wildlife. Even Aristotle was mystified by the seasonal changes of Athenian bird life (he erroneously posited that one species transformed into another). During the past 10 years, new technology that allows scientists to monitor increasingly smaller species has revealed a hidden network of pathways that span the globe. And so we learn that things are far more complex than we could have ever imagined, with millions of dragonflies flying across the open sea from India to Africa, zooplankton migrating vertically in the oceans, and indigo buntings using star patterns for celestial navigation.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/09/04/trazzler_wildlife_migration/feed/ 12 Exploring the joys of crossing borders http://www.salon.com/2011/08/28/trazzler_slideshow_border_crossing/ http://www.salon.com/2011/08/28/trazzler_slideshow_border_crossing/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/08/28/trazzler_slideshow_border_crossing With news this week of Iran sentencing the two American hikers who strayed into the country from Iraq in 2009, border travel may not have a glamorous ring to it. There are lines of demarcation in the world that are dangerous and forbidden.

Borders can be remarkably polarizing places, drawing a line between inclusion and exclusion, life and death, slavery and freedom, poverty and wealth, war and peace, survival and annihilation. Geology often dictates where the line goes -- rivers, mountain ranges, vast stretches of desert, or coastlines -- but borders are ultimately human inventions (or as one of the founders of the EU put it, "the scars of history"). Over time, they can shift, expand, retreat, fail to win recognition, reappear with a vengeance, and become fascinating historical footnotes.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/08/28/trazzler_slideshow_border_crossing/feed/ 6 Adventures for your inner daredevil http://www.salon.com/2011/08/21/trazzler_slideshow_adrenaline_rush/ http://www.salon.com/2011/08/21/trazzler_slideshow_adrenaline_rush/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/08/21/trazzler_slideshow_adrenaline_rush "Relax, keep your eyes open, and don't be alarmed if you have an uncontrolled bowel movement the first time -- it happens," advises the not-quite-half-joking skydiving instructor as the jittery would-be jumpers cling to the rim of the open cargo door. While many other sectors of the tourism industry are lagging, the adventure business is booming. What used to constitute fringe activities by a band of "crazies" is increasingly regulated, mainstream and safe enough that families or co-workers can now go zip-lining or bungee jumping together (which is pushing the fringe to new and much more dangerous, incontinence-inducing extremes).

Many cultures have rites of passage that could qualify as extreme sports. Bungee jumping is rooted in the ritual jumping in Vanuatu that takes place as a fertility rite during the yam harvest. Young men climb to the top of a wooden tower to dive off with vines tied around their ankles, hoping to just graze the ground. In the 1970s, Oxford University's Dangerous Sports Club tested the idea from a bridge with more modern equipment and the new sport spread to New Zealand, the spiritual home of the world's adrenaline junkies and their boundary-expanding guru, A.J. Hackett.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/08/21/trazzler_slideshow_adrenaline_rush/feed/ 4 The pilgrimage sites you haven’t heard of http://www.salon.com/2011/08/14/trazzler_slideshow_unusual_pilgrimages/ http://www.salon.com/2011/08/14/trazzler_slideshow_unusual_pilgrimages/#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/08/14/trazzler_slideshow_unusual_pilgrimages Most modern places of pilgrimage didn't take off until medieval times or later, but the impulse to hit the road in search of a transformative experience is an ancient one. There is nearly always a magical or religious element: time off in purgatory, healing miracles, increased luck in love, seeing the future, or payback for answered prayers. (Of course, for the destinations, it's also an ancient form of marketing that brings in funds from near and far.) Still, many pilgrims are equally motivated by the secular and social aspects of the journey -- the rituals, physical challenge, communal spirit along the way, and most of all (as Chaucer's 14th-century "Canterbury Tales" captured so well), the exchange of stories.

For every Mecca, Lourdes, Fatima and Bodh Gaya, there are hundreds of smaller, lesser-known sites around the world. That they are often quirky and surreal -- and draw a modern-day cast of characters diverse and colorful enough for countless tales -- is all part of the pilgrimage construct. These 14 places run the gamut, from mountaintops to a lotus flower behemoth to a tiny chapel dedicated to dogs.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/08/14/trazzler_slideshow_unusual_pilgrimages/feed/ 6 The world’s best elephant adventures http://www.salon.com/2011/07/31/trazzler_slideshow_elephant_adventures/ http://www.salon.com/2011/07/31/trazzler_slideshow_elephant_adventures/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/07/31/trazzler_slideshow_elephant_adventures Elephants, when left unencumbered (which they seldom are these days), are great travelers. During the dry season, a herd can migrate hundreds of miles in search of food and water. While they once freely roamed much of the earth, wild elephants are -- for better and for worse -- now mostly restricted to vast national parks and reserves where fences and vigilance forge a fragile détente between the world's largest land animals and their human neighbors. Encouraging tourism in places like this is tricky, but potentially quite beneficial when it is implemented in a way that fosters economic alternatives to poaching, deforestation and exploitation.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/07/31/trazzler_slideshow_elephant_adventures/feed/ 10 The swashbuckling world of pirates http://www.salon.com/2011/07/24/trazzler_slideshow_pirate_places/ http://www.salon.com/2011/07/24/trazzler_slideshow_pirate_places/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/07/24/trazzler_slideshow_pirate_places What is it about pirates? For a society that radically alters its behavior and policies in reaction to the relatively remote threats of stranger-danger and random attacks, we sure do romanticize the lives of these criminal pillagers, enslavers, kidnappers and terrorists of the past.

Most of what draws us to pirates is clearly the product of fiction -- their outsider status, odd stateless culture, unrepentant boozing and moral ambiguity have always been appealing to writers and poets who themselves feel marginalized. Pop culture has converted the whole phenomenon into costume-based kitsch, but there are real-world pirate hideaways, shipwrecks and sketchy legends of hidden treasures that give travelers a fun excuse to explore coastlines and remote islands and imagine a time when now-peaceful waters were violently menaced by freelance marauders (not to mention state-sponsored privateers). The Mediterranean is ringed by fortifications and lookout towers that attest to the drastic measures communities had to take to protect themselves from wave after wave of terror from the sea. Today, their remnants tend to be the sort of beautiful places where couples head on evening walks and postcard pictures are taken.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/07/24/trazzler_slideshow_pirate_places/feed/ 5 Discovering the joys of river voyages http://www.salon.com/2011/07/17/trazzler_slideshow_river_voyages/ http://www.salon.com/2011/07/17/trazzler_slideshow_river_voyages/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/07/17/trazzler_slideshow_river_voyages A wise Winnie the Pooh reflected: "If you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known." Is there any better natural metaphor for life and the flux of time than these moving collections of water droplets inexorably drawn by gravity to join the immensity of the sea? Doing our best to make sense of the world, we give waterways names and treat them as if they are permanent, but traveling on a river breaks this spell.

Rivers are the original highways that beckoned the first ambitious travelers to float downstream or battle their way to higher ground; they tell stories of conquests, empire building, environmental meddling, invasions and migrations. Certain rivers are so deeply embedded in our cultural consciousness that we feel that we know them intimately, like protagonists in a novel: Conrad's Congo, Twain's Mississippi, Lope de Aguirre's Amazon, Cleopatra's Nile, the Ganges, Mekong, Río de la Plata, Yangtze ... A long, slow river voyage is an exercise in patience and existential meditation that feels so radically out of step with the frenzy of our time that it is certain to be a life-changing experience. Find more river adventures (both fast and slow) on Trazzler

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/07/17/trazzler_slideshow_river_voyages/feed/ 6 The world’s most beautiful wastelands http://www.salon.com/2011/07/10/trazzler_slideshow_beautiful_wastelands/ http://www.salon.com/2011/07/10/trazzler_slideshow_beautiful_wastelands/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/07/10/trazzler_slideshow_beautiful_wastelands How long does it take for the forces of nature to lay waste to a city, a resort town, a middle-class suburb, or a tycoon's private island in the Hudson River? Not as long as you might think. The booming metropolis of your youth could be the moss-covered structural remains of old age. Human enterprises need humans to survive. Once abandoned, they are as mortal as their makers. While post-apocalyptic scenarios make great movie sets, you don't have to be Charlton Heston in the final scene of "The Planet of the Apes" to appreciate the transience of our boom-and-bust cultural trajectory; nor do you have to travel to ancient Rome or Machu Picchu or Angkor Wat.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/07/10/trazzler_slideshow_beautiful_wastelands/feed/ 20 When getting there is the adventure http://www.salon.com/2011/07/03/trazzler_slideshow_public_transit/ http://www.salon.com/2011/07/03/trazzler_slideshow_public_transit/#comments Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/07/03/trazzler_slideshow_public_transit The world certainly needs efficient and well-connected subway systems, bus routes and rail networks. However, when you have a bit of extra time on your hands, patchy, idiosyncratic ways of getting around can make for the best adventures. If you approach travel from an anthropological perspective, the way that people move from place to place reveals a lot about a culture and its institutions.

Whether through benign neglect or fierce historic preservation, some communities have held on to antiquated modes of transportation that perished everywhere else. In transit, what's old is new again. Light rail is back. The Tomorrowland vision of monorails taking over the world may have crashed and burned (in some cases literally), but it is rising from the ashes in Asia with several lightning-fast maglev trains launching in the past decade.

On the other end of the transportation spectrum, in many parts of the world the automotive castoffs of developed countries are creatively reincarnated into psychedelically painted ad hoc transit systems packed to the gills. These are art cars with a purpose -- chivas, jeepneys, diablos rojos or tap taps -- and the driver is the king of his moving castle.

We'd love to hear about your transportation adventures in the comments. You can read more at http://www.trazzler.com/tags/public-transportation

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/07/03/trazzler_slideshow_public_transit/feed/ 4 Exploring the world of children’s literature http://www.salon.com/2011/06/26/trazzler_slideshow_childrens_literature/ http://www.salon.com/2011/06/26/trazzler_slideshow_childrens_literature/#comments Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/06/26/trazzler_slideshow_childrens_literature One hundred twenty million people visited Disney's parks last year, more than the combined population of France and Spain. (There are no statistics on how many of those visitors were parents pounding ibuprofen, praying that their kitsch-induced suffering would soon come to a merciful end.) While the Disney empire has certainly made its indelible mark on childhood storytelling, there are many, infinitely more low-key places around the world that imaginative children and their literate parents can visit.

Traveling with a book is one of the best ways to give what you are seeing and experiencing a deeper context. This is especially true when making a big trip with smart children. There is something magical about setting foot in the real-world inspiration for a children's literature fantasyland, be it the bewitched forest of King Arthur, the oddball world of the Moomin family, Heidi's alpine cabin, or Jack London's wild Beauty Ranch. These 14 literary spots will delight both kids and adults -- we couldn't include them all, so please share your favorites in the comments. You can read more at http://www.trazzler.com/tags/childrens-books

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/06/26/trazzler_slideshow_childrens_literature/feed/ 6 The best places to celebrate the solstice http://www.salon.com/2011/06/19/trazzler_slideshow_summer_solistice/ http://www.salon.com/2011/06/19/trazzler_slideshow_summer_solistice/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/06/19/trazzler_slideshow_summer_solistice Like Halloween, New Year's Eve and Carnival, the summer solstice was -- and in many parts of the world still is -- a time of hedonism and transgression. Midsummer represents a threshold, a time when the long days blur the transition to night, allowing a brief respite from the daily grind that keeps most of us in check. In many parts of Europe, Christians bumped the celebrations to June 24, incorporating pyromania and pagan traditions into the St. John's Eve festivities.

Legends describe the solstice as a time when the doors to enchanted castles and the underworld were cast open and mortals could mingle with fairies and imprisoned princesses and explore hidden caverns. Shakespeare set his silly and brilliant comedy on this night, depicting the collision of three very different worlds in a magic forest where fairies work romantic mischief on sleeping couples, while bad actors rehearse a Roman play about doomed lovers.

The youth of today may not pause to think that they are reenacting ancient midsummer celebrations or mating rituals when they get debaucherous at the many music festivals that kick off around the solstice, but the primal desire to be outside dancing and carousing late into the night is irrepressible at this time of year.

These 12 spots embody the liminal weirdness of this third week in June and our unending fascination with the cycles of the sun. You can find more sun worshiping solstice places here.

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