Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesTravel Road Island Diner Atlas Obscura What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town? Anyone alive today who grew up in Middletown, Rhode Island, probably …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into StoriesWildlife The French Missionary and the English Duke Who Saved a Chinese Deer From Extinction Atlas Obscura - Marina Wang When visitors enter Beijing’s Nanhaizi Milu Park, they step onto a long wooden bridge that stretches over a marsh. It’s the perfect place to see a …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into StoriesNew South Wales Australia Needs Slow and Steady Rain—Not Golf Ball-Sized Hail Atlas Obscura - Jessica Leigh Hester Earlier this week, the Australian capital of Canberra was pelted with hail the size of golf balls. Before the icy deluge, the city had been enveloped …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into StoriesWayne State University How a Massive Fatberg Went From Sewer to Science Museum Atlas Obscura - Jessica Leigh Hester Tracie Baker wasn’t sure what tools she would need for the dissection. Baker, an environmental toxicologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into HistoryCookbooks Eat Like a 1970s Radical With 'The People's Philadelphia Cookbook' Atlas Obscura - Reina Gattuso “A Very Gay Meat Loaf” requires several key ingredients. First, wrote Michael Goldberger, a gay activist and neuroscience researcher, combine ground …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesTravel Kinema in the Woods Atlas Obscura This century-old cinema is complete with musical interludes and boasts a rare projection system. This unusual and historic cinema was once an early …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesTravel The Egg Atlas Obscura This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit. This modernist movie theater was once …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesCulture Dragsholm Castle Atlas Obscura Considered one of the most haunted places in Europe, this 800-year-old castle was home to noble prisoners. Dragsholm Castle was built around 1215 by …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into StoriesAnimals Australia’s Platypuses Are Invisible Victims of the Bushfires Atlas Obscura - Sabrina Imbler The platypus—furry-sausage body, duck bill, beaver tail, venomous heel spurs—lives what might be considered a cryptid lifestyle. The semiaquatic, …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesTravel Peter Scott's Shoes Atlas Obscura This tiny shoe shop claims to be the smallest store of its kind in Britain. This shop in the historic spa town of Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, England, …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into Unusual ArchitectureTravel Red Oak II Atlas Obscura When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate it from scratch. Located not far from Route 66, travelers are in for a treat …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into Gastro ObscuraUnited States Remembering the 'Kiwi Queen' Who Revolutionized American Produce Aisles Atlas Obscura - Luke Fater Most Americans have never heard of Dr. Frieda Rapoport Caplan. But any American who has enjoyed a kiwi, mango, or blood orange has tasted her …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into StoriesWest Virginia University Why Trees Are the Most Reliable Historians of Early America Atlas Obscura - Isaac Schultz Despite our best intentions, humans can be awful recordkeepers. There are personal biases and faulty memories to consider, older means of …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesTravel Sate & Sake Atlas Obscura The only Malaysian food truck in Italy slings tangy chicken satay that even Italians love. From osso buco to polenta to prosciutto, Italians produce …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into StoriesWildflowers How to Identify Wildflowers Without Bothering to Get Off the Highway Atlas Obscura - Sabrina Imbler Let’s say you’re cruising down a highway in Nebraska at the speed limit of 70 miles per hour. Out of the corner of your eye, you notice a purple-pink …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesTravel Fry Bread House Atlas Obscura Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud. In 1992, Cecelia Miller, a …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into StoriesIguana Unseasonably Cold Weather Littered South Florida With Stunned Iguanas Atlas Obscura - Lauren Aratani This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It truly was the night (and day) of the …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesTravel Caldwell Historic Jail & Museum Atlas Obscura Constructed in 1882, this jail once housed local inmates and the sheriff's family all under one roof. In the town square of historic downtown …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into HistoryMuseums Bangor Police Museum Atlas Obscura This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck. The Bangor Police Museum, also known as the Museum …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesTravel Chee Dale Stepping Stones Atlas Obscura These unique stepping stones hug a river's edge to take hikers on a journey through a limestone gorge. Although only about four-to-five miles long, …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into Unusual ArchitectureTravel Camino Real Sumiya Atlas Obscura The tragic heiress Barbara Woolworth Hutton built her seventh husband this Japanese-inspired palace in Mexico. Barbara Woolworth Hutton’s life was a …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesCosmonauts Monument to Yuri Gagarin Atlas Obscura Among the various monuments in Russia to its space program and cosmonauts, one of the most striking is composed of titanium and looms over a city …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesTravel Normaal Amsterdams Peil (Amsterdam Ordnance Datum) Atlas Obscura The infrastructure of Amsterdam all depends on a stone at the center of Dam Square. The stone caps a bolt that marks Amsterdam’s zero-level, or sea …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesTravel Gavez Klub Atlas Obscura Tucked in an urban forest, this restaurant specializes in homemade, healing rakijas. Named after a local plant, Gavez Klub is a family-operated …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into StoriesNamibia The Transformation of Namibia's Etosha Pan, From Parched to Soaked Atlas Obscura - Jessica Leigh Hester The Etosha Pan, in northern Namibia, is no stranger to extremes. The white, salty landscape—leftover from a prehistoric lake that dried up millions …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into StoriesNative Americans Why American Kids Have Been Going to Soviet Sleepaway Camp Atlas Obscura - Jen Pinkowski Like thousands of kids across the globe, Anton Belaschenko went to sleepaway camp last summer. The 11-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland swam in the …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesTravel Charcuterie Atlas Obscura After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop. A decade ago, you would have …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into StoriesAnimals Scientists Are Simulating Mass Animal Die-Offs in an Oklahoma Prairie Atlas Obscura - Sabrina Imbler It’s the smell that will never leave Brandon Barton. He has spent years dealing with tons of decomposing hog carcasses, and considers himself a …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into Places Missouri Meerschaum Corn Cob Pipe Museum Atlas Obscura This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe. The Missouri Meerschaum Company has been making …
Atlas Obscuraflipped into PlacesAztec Empire Tomb of Hernán Cortés Atlas Obscura Hidden for more than a century, the grave of the infamous Conquistador remains forgotten behind these church walls. Hernán Cortés was the conqueror of …
