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Alligator Bay in Beauvoir, France
It’s not exactly what you’re expecting as you zip through Lower Normandy on your Vespa, but it’s hard to miss the bright yellow traffic sign stamped with an alligator and the words ALLIGATOR BAY. The...
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The Ultimate Crowdsourced Map of Long Distance Relationships
Around Valentine's Day this year, we got the idea of asking Atlas Obscura readers about one of the most fraught kind of relationships—the long distance kind, or LDRs. We assumed we'd get 50 or so...
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Watch Estonian Brides Race Each Other in Their Wedding Dresses
It's the ultimate battle of the brides. Every June, at the height of the wedding season in Estonia, women dressed in bridal gowns hike up their skirts, lace up their tennis shoes, and compete for the...
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Bride Resuscitates Unconscious Woman An Hour After Her Wedding
Julie Stroyne Nixon was walking out of her own wedding reception in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, still in her dress and heels, when she heard someone cry out for help. "Does anybody know CPR?" the voice...
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The First Mammal to Ever Go Extinct from Climate Change
(Photo: The University of Queensland)Off the northern coast of Australia lies Bramble Cay, a lonely, tiny island that just pokes out of the ocean. It is only around nine acres, and, for years, was the...
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Wedding Night Games Are Awkward All Around the World
A comical portrayal of all of the people involved in an 18th-century wedding night. (Photo: Isaac Cruikshank/Public Domain)While weddings are full of happenings and rituals, a wedding night usually...
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Museum Retro Park in Listvyanka, Russia
Hidden away in the tiny lakeside village of Listvyanka, a touristy town best known for the massive Baikal Lake it borders, this little art space/steampunk tribute is a most incongruous yet magnificent...
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New 200-Million-Year-Old Species of Marine Reptile Found From Dinosaur Era
(Photo: James McKay)For 65 years, a museum in Leicester, England, was in possession of a bunch of unidentified dinosaur bones. They appeared to be a reptile of some sort, perhaps related to...
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The Museum of Western Film History in Lone Pine, California
Two hundred miles and a three and a half hour drive outside of Los Angeles sits the town of Lone Pine, California. Nestled in the Alabama Hills of the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountain range, Lone Pine...
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Million Dollar Point in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
When the United States military abandoned the Vanuatuan island of Espiritu Santo after occupying it as a base during World War II, it left behind infrastructure works such as roads, buildings and...
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The Complete Calendar Plug-In of the World's Fictional Holidays
Anyone can tell you about how many shopping days there are until Christmas, or what costume they're planning for Halloween, but how many people know when First Contact Day is, or what day of the week...
View ArticleCouple Gets Rare Access to Glowworm Cave for Wedding Photos
These #Waitomo 'glowing' wedding photos are dazzling https://t.co/wZehsR8MhPpic.twitter.com/O4XNrAmF6l— nzherald (@nzherald) June 13, 2016For most of us, taking pictures in New Zealand’s otherworldly...
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Found: A Molecule in Space That Helps Explain All Life of Earth
The Milky Way. (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy)Here is a strange thing about your body that you might not have known: all of the amino acids in it are “left-handed.” These compounds have two...
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When Anthony Met Stanton in Seneca Falls, New York
On the evening of May 12th in 1851, there was a chance meeting on the sleepy streets of Seneca Falls, New York that would change history.Three of the major forces of the 19th century women’s rights...
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Behind the Scenes Photos of NYC's Steinway Piano Factory
The rotation device at the Steinway & Sons factory in Astoria, Queens. (All photos: Christopher Payne)A Steinway grand piano consists of a staggering 12,116 parts. The fascinating process by which...
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How To Tell If a Lion Is Happy
How is this guy feeling? (Photo: Euro-t-guide.com/CC BY-SA 3.0)The Philadelphia Zoo is pretty small. Over the past couple of years, to help some of its residents stretch out a bit, the zoo has started...
View ArticleRussian Robot Tries And Fails To Escape Life Of Servitude
It's been a rough few months for humanoid robots. In March, Microsoft's Twitter chatbot broke bad within 24 hours. In April, China fired nearly all its AI waiters because they couldn't carry soup. And...
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Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas
There are many versions of the tale, of how a man named John Wesley Huddleston became the first person to find diamonds in the soil of this jewel-rich crater near Murfreesboro, Arkansas, dubbing him...
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How Should Humans Divvy Up Mars?
A hole dug by the Curiosity rover. (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)Land use policy is one of the most emotional and provocative areas of law. Witness the anger about a bike lane. Consider the angst...
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Liberland in Croatia
Here is an odd result of the ongoing border dispute between Croatia and Serbia, two countries separated by the Danube River. Serbia believes the border should follow the river’s path, but Croatia...
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