Bears Why Bear Fat Makes for Better BakingAtlas Obscura - Luke Fater Hank Shaw bakes his buttermilk biscuits with bear fat. “The most breathless prose has always been reserved for bear fat in pastries,” writes the …
Plants Centuries Later, America’s First Female Botanist Lives on in a Community GardenAtlas Obscura - Sabrina Imbler In 1728, the young Jane Colden moved with her family to a plot of land in the Hudson Valley that, according to her father, was populated less by …
University of San Francisco SF Marks the Spot for Buried TreasureAtlas Obscura - Shoshi Parks In 1982, children’s book author Byron Preiss published The Secret, about a mythical treasure and its guardians—magical creatures hidden from human …
Forests For Sale: America’s Largest Private Grove of Giant SequoiasAtlas Obscura - Isaac Schultz Giant sequoias are no strangers to history. The trees can last thousands of years, and at least one tree was already half a century old at the time …
Mumbai How Mumbai's Masalawaalis Make a Single Spice From 30 IngredientsAtlas Obscura - Beverley Ann D'Cruz I was seven years old and watching three sari-clad ladies, each holding a tall, wooden pestle, adroitly throw their sticks into the center of a deep …
Graffiti El-Kurru’s Carved Graffiti Reveal Another Side of Ancient NubiaAtlas Obscura - Isaac Schultz Anwar Mahajoub grew up in the village of El-Kurru, Sudan, along the Nile between its Third and Fourth Cataracts. Besides at its delta, which offers a …
Medieval The Merriam-Webster of Medieval Irish Just Got a Major UpdateAtlas Obscura - Sabrina Imbler For the past five years, Sharon Arbuthnot has been on the hunt for new words. She isn’t searching in the places one might expect linguistic …
Kurt Vonnegut The New Vonnegut Museum Could Only Have Ever Been in IndianapolisAtlas Obscura - Susan Salaz Kurt Vonnegut’s typewriter, Pall Malls, and Purple Heart are boxed and ready to move. Julia Whitehead, founder and CEO of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum …
Guns For Sale: Bonnie and Clyde’s Sawed-Off ShotgunAtlas Obscura - Sabrina Imbler On April 13, 1933, five sheriffs assembled outside 3347 ½ Oakridge Drive in Joplin, Missouri to confront what they thought were bootleggers operating …
Conger Bread at Griffin's BakeryAtlas Obscura After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making daily a loaf of sourdough in its shape. Every morning, a massive loaf …
Marsupials Ice Age Australia Had Giant, Clawed, Swole Marsupials in Its TreesAtlas Obscura - Isaac Schultz Thousands of years ago, the inland region of eastern Australia was a far cry from the sere place it is today. During the Ice Age, this part of the …
Oil A Decade Later, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Has Left an Abyssal WastelandAtlas Obscura - Sabrina Imbler Clifton Nunnally felt sick before he even saw the seafloor. It was 2017 and he had come down with a virus on a month-long research cruise; he was …
Bathrooms London's Subterranean Victorian Bathrooms Now House Bars and CafésAtlas Obscura - Katherine Waters You wouldn’t see it unless you’re looking for it. Directly in front of the busy junction on the north side of London’s Waterloo Bridge, hiding in …
Locomotives Meet the Man at the Controls of the World’s Largest Steam LocomotiveAtlas Obscura - Justin Franz There’s no doubt about it. Ed Dickens is a rockstar. Dickens is a steam locomotive engineer and mechanic who maintains the Union Pacific Railroad’s …
Manaus An Urban Amazon Community Sheds Light on Brazil's Forgotten Black HistoryAtlas Obscura - Ignacio Amigo In Manaus, the largest city of the Brazilian Amazon, there’s a community whose members pride themselves on being direct descendants of people …
England The Triumphant Return of England's Insect-Eating, Bog-Loving, Rad-Looking Great Sundew PlantAtlas Obscura - Jessica Leigh Hester Joshua Styles doesn’t exactly take pleasure in finding flies and spiders roaming around his home in northwest England, but he does find them useful. …
Germany In San Francisco, an East German Restaurant Is a Portal to the PastAtlas Obscura - Laura Kiniry It’s a buzzing evening in San Francisco’s Mission District, but walking through the front door of what is perhaps the only East German restaurant in …
Croatia 26 of the World's Most Astounding Abandoned ResortsAtlas Obscura From the forests of Canada to the beaches of Croatia, the Earth is dotted with forgotten relics of relaxation.
Hotels Hot Lake HotelAtlas Obscura A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to insane asylum before it was abandoned. This turn-of-the-century resort attracted …
Adolf Hitler ProraAtlas Obscura Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex. While Adolf Hitler is indisputably one of history’s …
Woodstock Festival White Lake Mansion House RuinsAtlas Obscura These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury. Many visitors travel to Bethel, New York to see the site of …
Inventions The Marconi HotelAtlas Obscura Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult. The Marconi Hotel is a …
Eyrie House RuinsAtlas Obscura The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong. In its heyday, the Eyrie House hotel on the top of Mount …
Hotels Ruins of The Hampton Springs HotelAtlas Obscura The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa. Rotting away on a Florida lot are the remains …
Construction The Ruins of the Hotel AngstAtlas Obscura The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin. In the 19th century, the sleepy Ligurian town …
Hotels Grand Hotel Campo dei FioriAtlas Obscura With all the charm of the Grand Budapest Hotel and the eerie emptiness of the Overlook Hotel, a once-grand hotel deteriorates on a mountaintop above …
Hotel EdénAtlas Obscura This magnificent abandoned hotel was long haunted by its Nazi past. In its glory days in the early 20th century the magnificent Hotel Edén gave life …
Old Diplomat HotelAtlas Obscura This eerie abandoned building with a dark history is said to be one of the most haunted places in the Philippines. Though it was originally built as a …
El PonceAtlas Obscura The abandoned remains of this once-thriving hotel looms over the city, awaiting an uncertain future. Overlooking the city of Ponce are the remains of …
Yugoslavia The Socialist Scouts of YugoslaviaAtlas Obscura An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. “Little Pioneers, we are a proper army. Like the green …
