northern lights
Only-in-Anchorage Winter Traditions
Gaze up at the northern lights, ski past illuminated trees, and experience Anchorage’s vibrant folk traditions.
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alaska
Anchorage: A City Within the Wild
How to experience the best of Alaska’s natural beauty without leaving the greater Anchorage area.
toy museums
Where to See the World’s Creepiest Dolls and Toys
From Key West’s Robert the Doll to Mexico City’s Island of the Dolls, these haunted, headless, and thoroughly unsettling playthings will never make anyone’s wish list.
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The Day I Saw Bigfoot
The Bradshaw Ranch Encounter
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Historic Park Theatre to have a one time showing of award winning paranormal film
A Haunting in Blue Hill: A Paranormal Mystery
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The Castle in Silves Is Built From a 230-Million-Year-Old World
This October, the same red stone is giving up what appear to be sea reptiles, and you can follow the dig as it happens.
grotesques
Where to See the World’s Most Famous Preserved Body Parts
From Galileo’s middle finger to Chopin’s heart, these body parts have long outlived the rest of their owners.
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Where the Devil Joined the Game:
Inside Ireland's Hellfire Club
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The Haunted Jail Trail:
A Road Trip Through Texas’s Spookiest Cells
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The Algarve’s Oldest Secret May Be Smaller Than a Grain of Rice
Inland from the beaches, a team sieves 230 million years of red rock for the first relatives of mammals.
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Class Dismissed:
A Road Trip to Texas’s Haunted Schools
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Stone Walls and Restless Souls:
The Hauntings of Fort McKavett
eerie feeling
Atlas Obscura’s Guide to America’s Most Haunted Cemeteries
Not all the dead rest easy. These 13 American cemeteries have the ghost stories to prove it.
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Detention Never Ends:
The Haunted Halls of Farrar School
folk music
It All Comes Together in Chattanooga
More than once, this musical mecca has reinvented itself around shared spaces.
