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Two geographically separate populations of cute cephalopods once mated a very long time ago.

Amadou Ly is working wonders in laminated dough.

We want to see your road trip wonders for Atlas Obscura’s first photo contest—Summer Snaps.

Long before anyone appeared live at Red Rocks or made The Fillmore shake, there was The Tabor Opera House.

Utrecht’s Fish Doorbell has helped thousands of fish swim upstream to reproduce.

Our nearest planetary neighbors can help you map your place in the solar system.

Once on the brink of extinction, the massive birds now number in the hundreds.

Near a Colorado mountain town, there's the frozen corpse of a Norwegian grandpa. We get the tale of how this came to be.

Building connections between tradition and science.

Scientists don bike helmets and dodge bird poop to care for a colony of endangered common terns.

We visit southern Benin to learn more about one of the world's most misunderstood spiritual systems.

Understanding how the giant mammals weigh risk and reward could help prevent clashes with people.

A famous 1920s actress left the world a lasting piece of art: a remarkable miniature home.

A 50-square-mile patch of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho might just be the perfect place to commit a crime, thanks to a legal loophole.

From trying a pawpaw fruit to attending Minnesota’s gopher count.

The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies, condensed into one attractive snapshot.

Now it's the negatives themselves that need to be saved from time and the elements.