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Likuma Sarma, a renowned mobile theater actor, does her makeup before taking the stage.

theater

Assam’s Unique Mobile Drama Tradition Takes the Stage in a Changing World

These inventive traveling theater troupes were contending with shifting tastes even before the pandemic.

Sanskrita Bharadwaj
Atlas Obscura
September 13, 2021
New Zealand's tuatara are the last members of Rhynchocephalia, an order of lizard-like reptiles

reproduction

New Zealand's Slow-Moving 'Living Fossils' Have the Fastest Sperm Among Reptiles

Discovering the trait may help scientists protect the tuatara, which has been around since the dinosaurs.

Tess McClure
Atlas Obscura
September 13, 2021
Podcast: Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum

phallic

Podcast: Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum

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

The Podcast Team
Atlas Obscura
September 13, 2021
Hudutu, a classic Garifuna dish.

delicious diaspora

Meet the Woman Writing the First Garifuna Cookbook

Isha Gutierrez-Sumner seeks to preserve, protect, and popularize her people's cuisine.

Shehzil Zahid
Atlas Obscura
September 10, 2021
Morris Press is a factory, store, and showcase of the American community cookbook.

cookbooks

Inside the Company Printing America's Community Cookbooks

Churches, scout troops, and clown collectives all depend on Morris Press.

Sam O'Brien
Atlas Obscura
September 10, 2021
Manila Village, built well after St. Malo was established, included a fishing platform and general store near the town of Jean Lafitte, south of New Orleans.

immigration

The Challenges of Reclaiming Filipino Louisiana's Centuries-Old History

Members of what is perhaps the oldest Asian community in the United States are committed to preserving—and sharing—their story.

Ethan Sandweiss
Atlas Obscura
September 10, 2021
Tarpon can weigh 250 pounds and leap 10 feet in the air while trying to throw off the hook.

tourism

The Lasting Allure—and Bruising Challenge—of Courting Florida's Silver King

Tarpon, a powerful game fish, helped make the state a tourism hub more than a century ago.

Lina Zeldovich
Atlas Obscura
September 9, 2021
A spiral formation of jack fish in Heron Island's harbor was the winner of BMC Ecology and Evolution's inaugural photo competition.

coral reefs

What Do You See in This Spiral of Color and Light?

A researcher says her award-winning image of a swirling school of fish is also a metaphor for the oceans' health.

Gemma Tarlach
Atlas Obscura
September 9, 2021
Podcast: Magical Summer Memories, Vol. 1

summer

Podcast: Magical Summer Memories, Vol. 1

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

The Podcast Team
Atlas Obscura
September 9, 2021
David Zamudio, one of Alma's O-1 recipients.

immigration

With Venezuela in Crisis, This Restaurant Offers Its Chefs a Landing Pad

By taking on the U.S. visa process.

Laura Kiniry
Atlas Obscura
September 8, 2021
A traditional meal of fish and provisions (tubers and vegetables) served on the Caribbean island of Dominica.

slavery

The Resistance and Ingenuity of the Cooks Who Lived in Slavery

Archaeologists are investigating foodways and recreating meals prepared by enslaved people.

Carolyn Wilke
Atlas Obscura
September 8, 2021
Researchers took samples from the new island during a July 2020 expedition.

greenland

The Northernmost Island in the World Was Just Discovered by Accident

It remains to be seen whether it will stick around.

Sarah Durn
Atlas Obscura
September 8, 2021
Podcast: World's Loneliest Tree

tree

Podcast: World's Loneliest Tree

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

The Podcast Team
Atlas Obscura
September 8, 2021
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a lot about food, and that made its way onscreen as well as to Denny's.

diner

Ode to a Denny's Hobbit Menu

The long history of fandom food.

Anne Ewbank
Atlas Obscura
September 7, 2021
A macaque at the Galtaji temple complex.

monkeys

Can India Solve Its Macaque Conundrum With Contraception?

The science of controlling marauding, sacred monkeys, from the new book by best-selling author Mary Roach.

Mary Roach
Atlas Obscura
September 7, 2021
Podcast: Million Dollar Point

diving

Podcast: Million Dollar Point

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

The Podcast Team
Atlas Obscura
September 7, 2021
Monument to Flight

north carolina

How We Got Our Wings

Tracing the history of air travel in North Carolina’s Outer Banks

Sponsored By Outer Banks Visitor Bureau
Podcast: Atlas Obscura 101

celebration

Podcast: Atlas Obscura 101

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

The Podcast Team
Atlas Obscura
September 6, 2021
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