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A new NASA robot is braving extreme temperatures to learn about the Red Planet.

Atlas Obscura readers share their favorite historically significant eateries.

And fries.

How do you feed eight billion people during a nuclear winter?

A lithium lakebed in Chile from above.

And evidence for how the massive stones were removed.

The toxic flurries are a product of Russia's coal pits.

Soon, the Garden of the Finzi-Continis may no longer be a fiction.

Her escape was documented in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

Thousands were cast into the waves in the 1960s, and one turned up in Texas decades later.

And it's sitting on the shelves at several university libraries.

But he did not get the quiet death he was seeking.

Pottery is fixed for practical purposes—and aesthetic ones as well.

The Whitman Sampler Collection is pretty sweet.

In October 2018, the Japanese city of Osaka broke off its 60-year relationship with San Francisco, California.

Some still reign today.

King Henry VI's "Loveday" did little to stop the Wars of the Roses.

The connection between New Orleans to Los Angeles can still be felt today.