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How the 1963 'Career Girl Murders' Bolstered the Myth that Cities Aren’t Safe...
Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie were in their early twenties and had just begun working in New York City when they were killed by an intruder in their Upper East Side apartment in August 1963. Both...
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Two-Headed Gator of Seminole Heights in Tampa, Florida
A uniquely weird, perfectly Florida creature serves as the perfect, if enigmatic, emblem for Tampa's Seminole Heights neighborhood.When the suburb was first developed in 1911, its founder used a...
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Found: A One-of-a-Kind Dinosaur Tail Preserved in Amber, With Its Feathers
In Myitkyina, Myanmar, not far from the border with China, there’s an amber market that sells nuggets extracted from mines nearby. Lida Xing, of the China University of Geosciences, was browsing there...
View ArticleWatch John Glenn Talk About the Human Need for Curiosity and Wonder
John Glenn died today, at the age of 95. And while his many, many accomplishments—first American to orbit the Earth, U.S. senator for 24 years, and, at 77, the oldest man ever to fly in space—will be...
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Photos of the World’s Most Unique and Beautiful Airports
High in the Caucasus Mountains of northern Georgia is the small town of Mestia. It is dotted with medieval stone towers comprising part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But one tower stands out from...
View ArticleFound: A Spray-Painted Electric Blue Tortoise
In Florida, the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission received a call about a very unusual creature—an electric blue tortoise.This guy wasn’t some superhero mutant, though. He was the victim of an...
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Sekigahara War Land in Sekigahara-chō, Japan
On October 21, 1600, a short but savage conflict changed the course of Japanese history forever. Near the quiet farming village of Sekigahara, more than a century of civil war culminated in a six-hour...
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Paris Will Auction Off 'Love Locks' To Help Refugees
Love is a powerful thing—especially when expressed in the form of a small chunk of metal hung on a public bridge.For years, swooning couples wrote their initials on padlocks and fastened them to...
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Kopiec Wandy (Wanda Mound) in Kraków, Poland
Numerous versions of an ancient legend surround this 50-foot manmade hill on the outskirts of Kraków. All, however, center around the mound's namesake. In some version a princess, in others a queen,...
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Abandoned Futuro House in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
An uninhabited Futuro House in poor condition deteriorates in the woods of North Carolina.Futuro Houses were a 1960s architectural fad, prefabricated vacation homes that were appropriate for beaches,...
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Teens and Krampus Are Again Violently Battling Each Other
The war between Krampus and teens has flared up once again in the small Austrian city of St. Johann im Pongau, as a group of teens have brutalized one of the performers in the annual Christmas demon...
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Exploring The Last Resort, Robert De Niro's Forgotten '90s Adventure Game
It’s 1996. At the behest of Robert De Niro, a small group of coders and game designers toil away in a seedy San Francisco warehouse to finish a surreal, puzzle game about a run down hotel that may...
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Independence Temple in Independence, Missouri
Independence Temple is awe-inspiring even to the undevout; it’s unlike any other place of worship built before or since. Construction of the spire—designed in the shape of a nautilus shell reaching up...
View ArticleWatch Electric Guitars Being Made in 1965 England
The 1960s were swept up by the boisterous, raging rock-and-roll wave. And at the heart of the sound: the electric guitar. This 1965 video archived by British Pathé follows the creation process of...
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The 2016 Atlas Obscura Holiday Gift Guide
Gather 'round, holiday shoppers, for a gift guide that takes inspiration from some of the most memorable items featured on Atlas Obscura this year. Got someone in your life who's difficult to surprise?...
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Villa Baviera in Villa Baviera, Chile
Miles away from civilization and accessible only by a gravel road is Villa Baviera, a quaint tourist town in Chile that appears to be typical of other European-themed villages throughout the world......
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Ai-Ais–Richtersveld Transfrontier Park in Namibia
This remote mountain desert park straddles two countries, earning it two different names: It is Ai-Ais in Namibia and Richtersveld in South Africa. The two regions are divided by the Orange River, well...
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The Creative and Forgotten Fire Escape Designs of the 1800s
In the morning of March 10, 1860, a crowd of several hundred New Yorkers looked up curiously at a long cloth chute dangling from the top of City Hall. The tube was supported by ropes along its sides,...
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Memorial to America’s First Circus Elephant in Heritage Hills, New York
Many stories have been told about Old Bet, one of the first elephants (if not THE first) to have set foot in the United States. One thing we do know for certain: She was murdered in Maine in the cold,...
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When Mother Teresa Met With New York's Mayor to Lobby for a Parking Permit
In the picture above, Rudy Giuliani, Hizzoner, Mayor of New York City, is having a grand old time with Mother Teresa. This meeting took place in June of 1997, just a few months before her death, when...
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