atlasobscura.comadded August 2026
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About There is a phone booth on Madison’s East Side where picking up the receiver connects the caller to no one—and, in a way, to quite a lot of people.
Atlas Obscuraby Kevin Elliott16d ago
About If the entirety of this museum wasn’t so peculiar already, the James E. Grosjean Room at the Allen County Historical Museum would be a place of magic surrealism; a tactile portal to the past...
Atlas Obscuraby Kevin Elliott16d ago
About With travel nonexistent, the summer of 2020 was devastating for tiny institutions which usually operate on an ever-shrinking budget, rely on donations or grants to stay afloat, and run with a...
Atlas Obscuraby Urbex Travel16d ago
About Budapest’s Exchange Palace is a grand building with a surprisingly eventful past. Designed by architect Ignác Alpár, it was built between 1902 and 1907 on Szabadság tér as the headquarters of...
Atlas Obscuraby Xavi Pascual17d ago
About There is something delightfully disorienting about stumbling across a 500-year-old Gothic doorway in the grounds of Madrid’s School of Architecture.
Atlas Obscuraby Dave Bastian20d ago
About Rising high above the vibrant browns and reds of the westerner Colorado landscape, stand the Grand Mesa.
Atlas Obscuraby Holyn Thigpen21d ago
About This opulent cinema in downtown Erie, commissioned by Warner Bros. Studios and designed by Chicago-based architects Rapp & Rapp, first opened its doors in 1931.
Atlas Obscuraby Holyn Thigpen21d ago
20,000 BC was a monumental year in history. Why? The first pot of soup was crafted in a cave in modern-day China.
Atlas Obscuraby Happilylost22d ago
About Josef Broz Tito occupied a unique place in the cultural memory of the countries that previously comprised Yugoslavia. To some, he was a human rights-violating authoritarian.
Atlas Obscuraby Josh W23d ago
About Located slightly northwest of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum and within a residential area is Larz Anderson Park.
Atlas Obscuraby Duaner23d ago
About Verlée is a small hamlet located an hour and a quarter's drive south-east of Brussels. Apart from a few limestone farmhouses, the village itself is small and of little interest.
Atlas Obscuraby Holyn Thigpen24d ago
What is a cryptid? A cryptid is an animal whose existence has been suggested but not proven by science—creatures like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Chupacabra, and the Jersey Devil.
Atlas Obscuraby Xavi Pascual24d ago
About You don’t normally expect to encounter the gods of Olympus while strolling through a suburban park outside Madrid.
Atlas Obscuraby Lewdinih27d ago
About In a town known for basketball and as the birthplace of James Dean, perhaps the best-kept secret is the Quilters Hall of Fame.
Atlas Obscuraby SEANETTA ALLSASS28d ago
About If one should find themselves in the district of Finnieston, an up and coming, (if not trendy) area of Glasgow, they may come upon a rather unique and solitary street feature.
Atlas Obscuraby Holyn Thigpen28d ago
America’s geography is unmatched in diversity, spanning from scorching, sandy deserts to snow-capped mountains and dense swamps; coastal wetlands to high, grassy plains.
Atlas Obscuraby Sean Emmerton29d ago
About The Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery is a misleading name that significantly downplays the number of Buddha effigies, as there are actually well over 12,000 statues present.
Atlas Obscuraby SoNu29d ago
About Tucked away in the small community of Puerto Itá Cajón in Nueva Alborada, the Museo del Árbol is an unusual open-air museum where the forest itself becomes part of the exhibition.
Atlas Obscuraby Holyn Thigpen8 Sept 2026
Where to stay is a pivotal part of any trip, sometimes just as important as the destination itself.
Atlas Obscuraby Holyn Thigpen4 Sept 2026
Illinois is known for its haunted houses and Halloween extravaganzas: the kinds of places that draw lines out the door and attract visitors from all over the country.
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