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Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Asterlan1d ago
About Located just off the main entrance road of New Mexico’s Valles Caldera–a 14-mile-wide circular depression created by a massive volcanic eruption 1.2 million years ago–it is hard to believe...
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Rachelmlantz1d ago
About In 2012, the owner of a local Ottawa, Illinois, repair shop towed a 2001 Volvo S80 onto a peninsula and then used an excavator to create a small, one-car island.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Tamara Siuda1d ago
About What do you do when you've built a shopping mall but you find an ancient Roman temple underneath part of it?
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Buchzusammenfassung App1d ago
About Most airport terminals are designed simply to move travelers from one place to another. Terminal 1 at Hurghada International Airport attempts something more ambitious: turning the landscape...
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Ketil Toska1d ago
About Opened in 2023, this tunnel is 2.9 km long (about 1.8 miles). Very useful for pedestrians, bicyclists, various exercising in a city where it rains almost all year.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby TaunyaD2d ago
About Near Axtell, Texas, 20 miles north-east of Waco was a large group of buildings known as the Mount Carmel Center once used by the Branch Davidian religious group.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Xavi Pascual2d ago
About Few phenomena can reliably unite the notoriously fragmented population of Spain, but the obsession with El Gordo—the nation’s historic Christmas lottery—is unquestionably one of them.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Rachelmlantz2d ago
About In 1832, counties in central Illinois were calling for volunteers to protect the frontier from Black Hawk and his Sauk warriors. On the morning of May 14, 1832, tensions came to a head.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Alan Newman2d ago
About East Finchley is in an area now in North London which was once adjacent to both the hunting ground of the Bishop of London and Finchley Common, over which locals held commoners rights...
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby FilipB3d ago
About Perched on a sun-drenched slope in Eltville am Rhein, Kloster Eberbach stands as a masterpiece of Cistercian architecture, founded in 1136 by twelve monks seeking isolation and spiritual...
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Naomi Martin3d ago
About Latin for "healthful" or "good health," Salubria, unlike James Madison's nearby home, Montpelier, is a lesser-known gem of the Piedmont region.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Maddi Reames3d ago
About Tin Pan Theater is a beloved arthouse cinema owned by BendFilm in the historic district of Bend, Oregon.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Holyn Thigpen4d ago
The humble glow worm is, in fact, a catchall term for numerous glowing creatures, from gnat larvae to fire flys to algae, that can be found all over the world.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Holyn Thigpen4d ago
All over the world, you can find ancient organisms that have existed for thousands, sometimes even millions, of years: living testaments of endurance and adaptation amidst changing climates and...
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Louise Story7d ago
Every European Christmas market sells the same mulled wine out of the same wooden hut. This is not a criticism — it is a very good hut, and the wine is warm.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Louise Story7d ago
Here is the failure mode nobody warns you about. You book a week in a country you chose because it appeared on a list of the best places to see the northern lights. You arrive.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Louise Story7d ago
Every winter sun list is the same list. Somewhere with a beach, ranked by average January temperature, with a paragraph about resorts.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Holyn Thigpen7d ago
Catacombs—underground rooms and tunnels used as cemeteries—date back to first-century Rome, but the most famous (and infamous) were created across Europe in the 17th century.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Louise Story8d ago
There is a version of Halloween tourism that involves a man in a rubber mask jumping out from behind a plywood wall. It has its pleasures. It is not this. The places below are real.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Placesby Louise Story9d ago
When and where: the path of the August 2, 2027 eclipse On August 2, 2027, the Moon’s shadow will cross southern Spain, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula.
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