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Bordeaux, Washington in Olympia, Washington
Hidden in the dense woods of Washington state are the remains of a once booming logging town that have since deteriorated to moss-covered ruins that now look like they could be equally at home in a...
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100 Wonders: The Atomic Clock
How long is a second? How do we know what time it is? And how can we be sure that two clocks are running at the same pace?The intangibility of time makes it tricky to standardize. We can, for example,...
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FOUND: Ancient Winged Insects Were So Close to Being Butterflies
An artist's impression of a Kalligrammatid lacewing (Image: Vichai Malikul/Smithsonian)120 million years ago, in the Mesozoic era, there were little creatures called Kalligrammatid lacewings fluttering...
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Fleeting Wonders: America's Only Jaguar Makes An Appearance in Arizona
El Jefe, America's last known jaguar, investigates the weird new gadget in his mountain home. (Screenshot: Center for Biological Diversity/Facebook)It took years of planning, but the conservationist...
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Tater Tot Nachos Are the Left Shark of Super Bowl 2016
Totchos, anyone? (Photo: Stephanie/flickr)Since it first debuted 50 years ago this Sunday, the Super Bowl has become a hallowed all-American tradition. And while the original focus of Super Bowl was...
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Park Güell in Barcelona, Spain
At Park Güell, stone, tile, plants, and Mediterranean skies magically come to life on a mountainside perch designed by Barcelona's resident architectural genius, continuing to delight adults and...
View ArticleVideo Wonder: 7 Hours on a Moving Train
Welcome to the most relaxing seven hours and 14 minutes that you will ever spend on YouTube. There are no gimmicks or frills, just a peaceful and scenic train ride from Bergen to Oslo, with occasional...
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The Robot Clocks of 12th-Century Turkey
Al Jazari was not only an exceptional engineer and inventor, but also an incredibly talented illustrator. The elephant clock is perhaps his most famous invention. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikipedia...
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Tell Us About Your Long Distance Relationship
(Image: Pixabay/ CC0 Public Domain)They say love can conquer anything–deep seas, high mountains, surprising cultural differences, the whole bit. But here at Atlas Obscura, we don't just accept such...
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Dude Chilling Park in Vancouver, Canada
Guelph Park has always been the centerpiece of community life in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia. As one of Vancouver’s most vibrant artistic neighborhoods since the...
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When the President Was the Quietest Man in the Room
Official portrait of Calvin Coolidge by Charles Sydney Hopkinson. (Photo: Public domain/Wikimedia Commons) Barring an unforeseen event, like speaking, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will reach a...
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Casa Bonita in Lakewood, Colorado
Do you want to have dinner in a 52,000-square-foot Colorado strip mall replica Mexican village having a "fiesta" amidst gun fights and gorilla hijinx and hey let's catch a puppet show and have some...
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Meet the People Who Live Outside of Time
Slowly sinking into submarine "watch time." (Photo: Pixabay)For four years, Maxime Theriault woke up, ate breakfast, and listened to the ocean sounds using SONAR, far beneath the sea. Every morning, he...
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The World's Largest Collection of Chinese Food Menus Was Collected by Single Man
A Chinese restaurant menu from 1905, part of the New York Public Library's Buttolph collection of menus. (Photo: Public Domain/New York Public Library)Just in time for Chinese New Year, the University...
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Leap-The-Dips in Altoona , Pennsylvania
Roller coasters are scary for any number of reasons. Whether it is the speed or the height or the perilous angles, they are machines made for the express purpose of creating thrills. But for many older...
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Kbal Spean in Banteay Srei, Cambodia
Tucked away in the jungles of Angkor, Cambodia is a small river that runs over a series of elaborate carvings that have been etched both along the shore line and into the very stone of the riverbed...
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Congressional Clocks Have a Secret Code
Library of Congress rotunda clock (Photo: Library of Congress)In Washington, D.C., on Capitol Hill, there are clocks everywhere. Every Congressional office suite, according to the Architect of the...
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The Minister Who Updated His Status in a Diary, Every 5 Minutes for 25 Years
(Photo: stevelodefink/Flickr)Critics of the social-media-obsessed Millennial generation love to tsk-tsk over the fact that these young’uns cannot stop chronicling the minutiae of their lives. After...
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Savvy Bacteria Parents Distribute Damage Unevenly Among Their Children
Like Lucille Bluth, bacteria play favorites like crazy. (Video: Youtube)Compared to human dynamics, bacterial family-making seems like a walk in the park: grow, split in half, repeat. No biological...
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How 'Live' is Live TV?
Our creation of the Seven Second Delay may be making TV even less live than we intended. (Photo: SashaW/Flickr)Later this month, the Oscars will be airing "live" all across America. But not really,...
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