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Podcast: Magical Summer Memories - The Cardiff Giant

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Podcast: Magical Summer Memories - The Cardiff Giant

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team
Atlas Obscura
June 21, 2022
Three women and one baby enjoy lunch at the Lord and Taylor tea room.

shops

The Lost Glamour of the Department-Store Restaurant

Pot pies and fanciful desserts made shopping delicious.

Anne Ewbank
Atlas Obscura
June 20, 2022
The town of Selsey, on a peninsula called Manhood in England, was an island or peninsula at various times in history, and has often contended with flooding. In the far distance, behind the town, lies Medmerry Nature Reserve.

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This English Town Is Letting the Sea Have Its Way

The coastal community of Selsey welcomes the return of salt marshes where farms once stood.

Erica Gies
Atlas Obscura
June 20, 2022
Podcast: Leimert Park

black history

Podcast: Leimert Park

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team
Atlas Obscura
June 20, 2022
 All illustrations: John Mata for Atlas Obscura

pencils

Puzzle Monday: A 'Pencil Puzzle' Made of Pencils

AO Puzzles
Atlas Obscura
June 20, 2022
Franklin Delano Roosevelt roasting hot dogs. They smell like diplomatic breakthroughs.

diplomacy

Why American Leaders Relish Hot-Dog Diplomacy

For 80 years, wieners have been an essential component of foreign policy.

Doug Mack
Atlas Obscura
June 17, 2022
Matthew Niemiller spotted the first Shelta Cave crayfish in more than 30 years when snorkeling in May 2019.

snorkeling

To Rediscover a Rare Cave Crayfish in Alabama, Grab a Snorkel

Thought for decades to be extinct, the tiny animal has stayed hidden in a former subterranean speakeasy.

Sarah Durn
Atlas Obscura
June 17, 2022
A CEA Demining team scours a wedge of land next to a rail line at the outskirts of Bologna, Italy.

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Tagging Along With Italy's Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

There's less and less for the country's demining companies to find. Sometimes they pine for the good old days.

Alessio Perrone
Atlas Obscura
June 17, 2022
Citrus-scented dandelion jelly is a regional specialty.

jam

Spring's Sweetest Jelly Calls for Hundreds of Dandelions

Cramaillotte makes wonder out of weeds.

Anne Ewbank
Atlas Obscura
June 16, 2022
The street names in Columbia, Maryland, were drawn from art and literature. "Satan Wood Drive," however, was the result of a typo. It was supposed to be named "satin wood" for a line from an Amy Lowell poem.

archive

What’s Up With Columbia, Maryland’s Quirky Street Names?

From Nodding Night Court to Dove Sail Lane, the town’s address choices are both practical and poetic.

Amy Crawford
Atlas Obscura
June 16, 2022
Spokane's garbage goat.

garbage

Podcast: Garbage Goat

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team
Atlas Obscura
June 16, 2022
Sports presenter and musician Selema Masekela is obsessed with amapiano, a genre of South African genre of house music.

secret obsessions

The Genre-Bending World of Amapiano, South Africa’s Township House Music

You can’t not dance when amapiano comes on.

Selema Masekela
Atlas Obscura
June 15, 2022
The Cataract House Hotel, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in the 1890s.

women

Podcast: The Divorce Colony

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team
Atlas Obscura
June 15, 2022
In the early 1890s, the Minnehaha County courthouse played host to some of the country's most sensational public divorce trials.

authors

Seeking the Last Remnants of South Dakota’s ‘Divorce Colony’

How Sioux Falls became a controversial Gilded Age “Mecca for the mismated.”

April White
Atlas Obscura
June 14, 2022
The well-preserved remains of Fred, also known as the Buesching Mastodon, were found in 1998 near Fort Wayne, Indiana.

megafauna

The Intriguing Life, Death, and Afterlife of an Indiana Mastodon

Scientists have pieced together a detailed biography—including a search for love and a violent end.

Gemma Tarlach
Atlas Obscura
June 14, 2022
The Cincinnati Subway.

subways

Podcast: The Cincinnati Subway

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team
Atlas Obscura
June 14, 2022
Research suggests that cats, solitary night hunters, are one of the greatest causes of bird mortality worldwide—a bigger threat than window and building collisions.

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In Iceland, Cats Face Curfews and Bans Aimed at Curtailing Their Murderous Ways

The cat-loving island nation is redefining its relationship with the 'elegant assassins.'

Egill Bjarnason
Atlas Obscura
June 13, 2022
Fifty new places have joined our database this year.

Unique Restaurants & Bars

Our Favorite Gastro Obscura Places of 2022 (So Far)

From Rome's oldest bakery to an all-American grape winery.

Anne Ewbank
Atlas Obscura
June 13, 2022
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