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Women kiss, celebrate, and hold up a banner for the Lesbian Herstory Archives in front of the Duchess Bar, then a popular lesbian bar in Greenwich Village, at Pride in 1982.

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This Project Maps 25 Years of New York's Lesbian Nightlife

The interactive tool allows readers to explore how queer social life has changed over time.

Reina Gattuso
Atlas Obscura
March 9, 2021
The Grand Canyon's hundreds of caves hold information about the long-gone past.

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The Grand Canyon's Caves Are Full of Sloth Dung and Mummified Bats

The limestone cliffs harbor hundreds of passages that offer glimpses into the distant past.

Shaena Montanari
Atlas Obscura
March 9, 2021
Qurt at the Osh Bazaar in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

nomad foods

Make the Ancient Road Snack of Central Asian Nomads

Qurt is salty, long-lasting, and packed with protein.

Susie Armitage
Atlas Obscura
March 8, 2021
The 21st-century team encountered snow and cold water—but they had much warmer gear than the folks whose footsteps they were following.

donner party

Retracing a Donner Party Path, Nearly Two Centuries Later

To pay homage, ultra-athletes fought snow and thorns.

Erika Mailman
Atlas Obscura
March 8, 2021
The top of a Strickland spoon.

curious kitchenware

The Macabre Mystery of a British Family's Skull-Topped Spoons

The 17th-century artifacts were likely christening gifts.

Sam O'Brien
Atlas Obscura
March 8, 2021
Zainab Muhammad, Grimaldi Baez, and Tania María Ríos Marrero harvest zinnias for Truelove Seeds.

seeds

Keep Your Quarantine Garden Growing With These 8 Unique Seed Companies

Grow the plants tailored to your region, passion, or heritage.

Reina Gattuso
Atlas Obscura
March 5, 2021
The partial skull found in Marcel Loubens Cave is more than 5,000 years old

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Solved: The Mystery of a Lonely Human Skull in an Italian Cave

Scientists found answers in a single piece of evidence.

Gemma Tarlach
Atlas Obscura
March 5, 2021
Dracula's Castle, on an amusement pier in Wildwood, New Jersey.

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When the Jersey Shore Was the Epicenter for Haunted Attractions

In the 70s and 80s, beachgoers delighted in low-budget frights.

Laura Kiniry
Atlas Obscura
March 5, 2021
Berenice's history as a port may partially explain why so many cats were buried there.

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Is This Egyptian Site the World’s Oldest Pet Cemetery?

Perhaps, but humans all over the world, from Siberia to Illinois, have a long history of burying animals with respect.

Gemma Tarlach
Atlas Obscura
March 4, 2021
Vladimir Demikhov demonstrates, for an audience of experts, the implantation of an artificial heart–like device in a dog at the 18th International Congress of Surgery in Munich, on September 18, 1959.

medical experiments

How the United States and Soviet Union Embarked on a Macabre Surgical Arms Race

Cold War animal experimentation and the roots of transplantation medicine.

Brandy Schillace
Atlas Obscura
March 4, 2021
Matrinxã mujeca (a fish soup) with local chilis and chili sauce.

rainforest

The Trailblazing Brazilian Restaurant Serving a Taste of the Amazon

Studying anthropology inspired a husband-wife team to ignore mockery and share their native foods.

Rafael Tonon
Atlas Obscura
March 3, 2021
The portraits, including this one of a woman of the Arapahoe nation, were shot during the 1898 Indian Congress in Omaha, Nebraska.

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An Artist Reunites Members of the 1898 Indian Congress

In her work, Wendy Red Star reframes representation of Native Americans.

Winnie Lee
Atlas Obscura
March 3, 2021
The camera descended beneath the ice, and found something researchers didn't expect: life.

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Scientists Accidentally Discovered Strange Creatures Under Half a Mile of Ice

Researchers drilled through an Antarctic ice shelf to sample sediment. But they found animals that weren't supposed to be there.

Matt Simon
Atlas Obscura
March 3, 2021
Günther Beinert straightens a mini tree beside one of his 1:10 castles.

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The Man Who Built 40 Castles Around a Little German Town

Günther Beinert's regal miniatures appear all over Gerbstedt (population: 3,000).

Yamuna Matheswaran
Atlas Obscura
March 2, 2021
Iriomote is famously unsullied—with the exception of its problematic poop.

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Leave Only Footsteps and Take Your Poop When Visiting Japan's Lush Iriomote Island

"Tent toilets" are helping to remedy a stinky situation.

Alice Barnes-Brown
Atlas Obscura
March 2, 2021
The figures of Karagöz and Hacivat, on display inside Özek's theatre in Istanbul, appear in every shadow theater performance.

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Istanbul's Master of Puppets Is on a Mission to Save an Ancient Art

From his tiny studio, Cengiz Özek finds new ways to keep this Ottoman era tradition alive.

Demetrios Ioannou
Atlas Obscura
March 2, 2021
Kristyn Leach is the latest in a long line of Asian-American agricultural trailblazers.

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How a Korean-American Farmer Is Sharing Her Heritage Through Rare Seeds

The heirlooms include an ancient 'apple melon.'

Jess Eng
Atlas Obscura
March 1, 2021
Protection Island has long been an important breeding ground for several species of gull.

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How Washington's Protection Island Became a Haven for Wildlife—And One Man

The small island was supposed to be a vacation destination. Now it's a refuge for birds, seals, and Marty Bluewater.

Michelle Harris
Atlas Obscura
March 1, 2021
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