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FOUND: Lakes That Used to Be Mount Everest Glaciers
A supraglacial lake on Mount Everest (Photo: C. Scott Watson)On one side of Mount Everest, the ice is melting so fast that lakes are forming on the surface of glaciers.As the Washington Post reports, a...
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Driftwood Sculptures from America's Largest Swamp
The view from Adam Morales' boat on the water near Pierre Part, on the outskirts of the Atchafalaya Basin. (All photos: Julie Dermansky)This photo essay is one of a five-part series with Atlas Obscura...
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The Spoonmaker's Diamond in Fatih, Turkey
Weighing in at 86 carats on its own, set in silver and surrounded by a dazzling array of 49 old-mine cut diamonds, the Spoonmaker's Diamond is the literal crown jewel of Topkapi Palace Treasury....
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McCourtie Park in Somerset Center, Michigan
Somerset Center in southern Michigan is home to an estate once called "Aidan Lair." The house is now gone, but the grounds have become a public park filled with whimsical “wooden” bridges made from...
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Eyrie House Ruins in Holyoke, Massachusetts
In its heyday, the Eyrie House hotel on the top of Mount Nonotuck was a place to see and be seen. Today, it lies in ruins.Owned and operated by one William Street and opened in 1861, the hotel included...
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Wheaton Station Escalator in Wheaton, Maryland
The lengths of two football fields, the escalator on Montgomery County's red line is quite a ride, considered the longest set of singe span escalators in the Western Hemisphere.A very, very long ride....
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Che Guevara Mausoleum in Santa Clara, Cuba
Standing high on a hill overlooking the city, a soaring bronze statue of Che Guevara bears witness to the status of Santa Clara, Cuba as the “city of Che.”The city was the site of the last conflict of...
View ArticleEnter the Mausoleum With this Video from Atlas Obscura’s Cemetery Soirée
On the night of October 24, 2015, Atlas Obscura and Green-Wood Cemetery invited 900 guests Into the Veil for an exploration of the 19th-century cemetery's expansive grounds. Equipped with a map just...
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Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Few horror movie scenes are as iconic as the moment when The Blob attacked a movie theater in the 1958 movie that bears the monster's name. In that moment, it seemed like the very space the audience...
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University of Mississippi Marijuana Research Project in Oxford, Mississippi
A government-funded lab devoted to the growth and study of kilo upon kilo of potent, legal weed sits in a nondescript pocket of an enormous state university. This is not a campus legend, nor is it a...
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Where's Me a Dog? Here's You a Dog: The South's Most Unusual Regionalism
Here's you a dog! (Photo: A_Peach/Flickr)Regions of America have their own grammar, just like they have their own vocabulary.Ohioans, for instance, call the wheeled conveyances used in grocery stores...
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The BFFs Who Ruled Silent Hollywood
Mary Pickford and Frances Marion, 1918. (Photo: Photofest)Mary Pickford was America’s original sweetheart, the it “girl with the golden curls,” who became an international superstar playing plucky...
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Is Your Pumpkin Spice Latte Polluting Rivers?
The Starbucks Pumpkin Spiced Latte, coming to a waterway near you. (Photo:Edgar Zuniga Jr./flickr)Beware the pumpkin spice latte — not for what it does going into your body, but where goes upon its...
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The Couple with a Dream—To Build a Historically Accurate Dinosaur Hotel
Dinosaur murals on the exterior of the Best Western Denver Southwest. (Photo: Ayleen Gaspar/flickr) Greg and Meredith Tally had been running their Lakewood, Colorado Best Western for about 10 years...
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Bear Spring Furnace in Dover, Tennessee
A few miles southeast of Dover, Tennessee, the home of Fort Donelson Battlefield, Highway 49 rounds a corner and brings travelers face to face with a larger than life stone structure engraved with...
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Exploring the Dusty Remains of South America’s Newest Ghost Town
A street in Chuqicamata, a once-thriving mining town. Now it is deserted, with rumors of shadowy figures crossing the streets late into the night. (All Photos: Margot Bigg)Many people think of ghost...
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The Saxon Tower at St. Michael at the North Gate in Oxford, England
Originally located just within the fortified city’s north gate, the Saxon tower is all that is left of Romanesque Oxford.Built around 1000-1050 CE, the Saxon Tower was once part of the original church...
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FOUND: So Many Scottish Dinosaur Footprints
An artist's idea of what Scotland's coast looked like about 170 million years ago (Image: Jon Hoad)Around 170 million years ago, Scotland was warmer, swampier, and inhabited by dinosaurs. Evidence of...
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Mount Wood Castle and Cemetery in Wheeling, West Virginia
The city of Wheeling, West Virginia is steeped in a mythology of excess in decline. Once home to more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the country, populated with gangsters and tycoons,...
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Nazis Secretly Bred Angora Rabbits at Concentration Camps
The cover of "Angora", made from woven rabbit wool bore, with the insignia of the Schutzstaffel (SS). (Photo: Wisconsin Historical Society) In 1945, as the Allies were marching through Germany, Chicago...
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