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Britain's Secret Underground Bunkers in Swindon, England
It'’s almost impossible to find one of Britain’s secret, underground military bases unless you know what to look for. In the years since they were built, starting in 1940, many of them have collapsed...
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Holiday Train Show at New York Botanical Gardens in Bronx, New York
Every year, from mid-November to mid-January, a most extraordinary train yard is erected inside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx.Artist Paul Busse and his...
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FOUND: A Dinosaur That Shed Its Teeth and Grew a Beak
New fossil research has revealed the existence of a strange little dinosaur that was born with teeth, but shed them to grow an adult beak.According to The Verge, these unique beasts are the first...
View ArticleWatch the Physics of Ballet's Hardest Move Explained
It’s the moment every member of the audience has been waiting for. The black swan comes out, looks to the horizon with a defiant smile, and begins to turn round and round and round in a hypnotizing...
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'Cartwheel' Tower in Washington, Maryland
Cold War tensions escalated on August 12, 1961 when Communist soldiers sealed off West Berlin with barbed wire barricades. In Washington, D.C., construction of a different sort was also underway that...
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Greyhound Bus Museum in Hibbing, Minnesota
Greyhound began as an intercity bus line in Minnesota. Its founder, Carl Eric Wickman, would transport miners the two miles from Hibbing to neighboring town of Alice (which had more bars) in his seven...
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The 25 Most Popular Atlas Obscura Stories of 2016
Don’t worry; none of Atlas Obscura’s most popular stories of 2016 had to do with the U.S. presidential election. Of course, we did write about the never-ending race, but more often than not our readers...
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How One Man Used a Deck of Cards to Make Parapsychology a Science
In terms of visual design, the cards are simple: Five different shapes—a five-pointed star, a circle, a square, a cross, and three wavy lines—printed in black on a white background, with an abstract...
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The Inuit Love Affair with Black Velvet Painting
Black velvet requires darkness. In sunlight, it fades.The dark of Northern Canada is unlike any other dark in the world. The deep darkness—“noon-moon” as it’s called—lasts for months, yet the black...
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See the Nighttime Acrobatics of Montana’s Flying Squirrels
After listening all day to relentless warnings of “severe winter weather” and poring over equipment manuals to determine the lowest operating temperature for various pieces of photographic gear, I...
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The Highbrow Struggles of Translating Modern Children's Books Into Latin
According to conventional wisdom, Latin is a dead language. But a simple Amazon search shows that it still has a surprisingly active life not just in medical and law terminology, but also in children’s...
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Budapest Castle Hill Funicular in Budapest, Hungary
At the bottom of Castle Hill is the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Hungary’s first permanent structure to cross the Danube River. It opened in 1849, and the solid span of wrought iron and stone connected Buda...
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Storkyrkobadet in Stockholm, Sweden
This tiny public bath is hiding in plain sight in the most touristy part of Stockholm.Storkyrkobadet is located in a vault, in the basement of a building dating back to the 17th century in Stockholm's...
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Romans Used to Ward Off Sickness with Flying Penis Amulets
Centuries ago, before modern medicine, in a time when humans fought disease and sickness in more, uh, mystical ways, ancient Romans centered on a solution that today might get you reported, or at least...
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Found: A Hand Grenade Disguised As A Nutcracker
It's the holiday season, and sometime over the course of the past few days, odds are good that you cracked some nuts. Maybe you used a simple metal nutcracker. Maybe you used one of those fancy ones...
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Gullfoss (Golden Falls) in Iceland
The Hvítá river is formed by the meltwater from the Lángjökull glacier pouring out of Hvítávatn lake to begin its journey to the sea. About 40 kilometers (25 miles) downstream the wide, rushing river...
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Książ Castle in Wałbrzych, Poland
Shrouded in secrets within the Owl Mountains of southwestern Poland, there sits a magnificent castle where many Nazi conspiracy theories find their roots.Ksiaz Castle is an impressive fortress rising...
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Silver Creek and Stephenson Railroad in Freeport, Illinois
Founded in 1982 as a not-for-profit educational organization with a mission to preserve America's historical railroad heritage, the Silver Creek and Stephenson Railroad operates several antique...
View ArticleA Freak Storm Created a Bunch of Rare Waterfalls on Australia's Uluru
Uluru, in Australia, is one of the wonders of the world: a massive rock in the middle of pretty much nowhere that is sacred to indigenous peoples and very hot all of the time.It also doesn't rain very...
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