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Wolf's Museum of Mystery in Saint Augustine, Florida
Located in a squat two-story Victorian home in St. Augustine, Florida, Wolf's Museum of Mystery is a "full retail museum" of bizarre oddities ranging from a vast range of taxidermy to an alien corpse,...
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Cave Diving Is Every Bit As Dangerous and Wonderful As It Seems
Tom Iliffe diving inside the longest lava tube in the world, known as the Tunnel to Atlantis in Lanzarote, Canary Islands. (Photo: Jill Heinerth/ IntoThePlanet.com)Huge chunks of the Earth's surface...
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Donald Trump Can't See Through Dirt
A smuggling tunnel in Gaza (Photo: חובבשירה/Wikimedia)Presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to build a wall along the border of Mexico and the U.S., and although there are many possible objections...
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The Secret Jokes Hidden in Alice in Wonderland
W. Butcher & Sons, Alice in Wonderland, London, 1905-1908, Magic lantern slides. (Photo: Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr./Photography by Graham S. Haber, 2015./Courtesy of the Morgan Library)Just...
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The Duke Who Loved Tunnels So Much He Was Immortalized As A Literary Badger
Webleck Abbey circa 1829, populated by the deer the 5th Duke liked more than people. (Image: John Preston Neale/WikiCommons Public Domain)William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, The 5th Duke of...
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Behind the Strange and Controversial Ritual When You Cross the Equator At Sea
U.S. sailors and Marines participate in a line-crossing ceremony. (Photo: Public domain/WikiCommons)It starts at night. People hear a knock on their door and they know it has begun. From their ship’s...
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Hopper-Zabriskie Cemetery in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
Like many tiny little family plots, the Hopper-Zabriskie Cemetery in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey was nearly the victim of time and neglect, as stones crumbled and bodies were forgotten, but thanks to some...
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Surviving a Nuclear Attack with Spam, and Other Images from Cold War Fallout...
A display of essential survival supplies for a well-stocked fallout shelter, c.1961. (Photo: NARA)During the Cold War, as the arms race between Soviet Russia and the United States escalated, the...
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Morlocks, CHUDS and Graboids: A Bestiary of Fictional Subterranea
Gnomes... always peering at us from below. (Photo: Humusak/pixabay)Humans have long been fascinated with the underground. It's a dark, uncharted place where we've allowed our minds to roam free,...
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FOUND: A 2,600-Foot Drug Tunnel
The tunnel (Photo: Policia Federal)Among all the illegal tunnels in the world, the one found this week by U.S. and Mexican law enforcement agents is a doozy. It's 2,600 feet long, about three feet...
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Akhob in Las Vegas, Nevada
Imagine the sheer serendipity of finding a world-renowned artist's work secreted away in the back of a French luxury goods store, in the midst of a tacky oasis, and you'll have only begun to appreciate...
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Floraholland Flower Auction Center in Aalsmeer, Netherlands
It should come as no surprise that the largest flower auction on the planet belongs to the Dutch, who are synonymous with the notion of the blooming flora industry.Every day, approximately 20 million...
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FOUND: A Map of Middle Earth, Annotated by Tolkien Himself
The annotated map! (Photo: Blackwell's Rare Books) In the 1960s, the British illustrator Pauline Baynes was working on a color map of Middle-earth, the land of wizards, elves and, of course, hobbits....
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Jamaica Pond Bench in Boston, Massachusetts
How did a piece of guerrilla art find its home alongside Jamaica Pond, hiding in plain sight among Boston’s string of parks known as the “Emerald Necklace?” The park was designed by famed landscape...
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Fleeting Wonders: Crashed Millennium Falcon For Sale
A Death Star-eye view of the home in question. (All photos: Courtesy Unique Estates)A strangely-shaped dwelling in the wilds of Queensland, Australia is capturing the imaginations of aspiring home...
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Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copan in Copán Ruinas, Honduras
The city of Copán in what is now western Honduras served as a political, civil, and religious center of the Mayan civilization for nearly 400 years. Although the site is host to a number of marvelous...
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It's autumn at Atlas Obscura headquarters in New York City, and we're lucky enough to be enjoying crisp weather, peak foliage and bars that serve warm drinks. But when we look down at the ground, we...
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Chester County Historical Society Museum in Chester, United States
The Chester County Historical Society Museum is located in the heart of the historic downtown area of Chester, South Carolina. The museum is housed in the former Chester County city jail, which was...
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The Big Mac Museum in Irwin, Pennsylvania
The Irwin, Pennsylvania McDonald's location details the history of the iconic sandwich. However, the location of the museum rankled the residents of the city where the Big Mac was first sold, almost 40...
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Indigent Burial in the U.S. is Shrouded in Confusion and Inconsistency—But...
(Photo: PhotographyByMK/shutterstock.com) On July 19, Rosaria Cortes Lusero was able for the first time to visit her stillborn daughter’s burial site. She had died just a few days after being born in...
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