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Slab City might be the "last free place," but that freedom requires work.

We want to see your shameful stacks of unread books.

They even resemble Antarctica's mysterious icequakes.

Coastal erosion and flooding are bad news for these ancient places.

The whole place was once a monumental graveyard.

Once, there was even an official ice cream.

The battle against them is still being waged today.

Then pipe its scent to a warm decoy.

An art oasis grows and glows in one of L.A.'s most iconic locations.

These filter feeders might be a ray of hope amidst microplastic pollution.

A groundbreaking female cartographer charted the evolution of the United States—and the dispossession of Native Americans.

But will it ever be built?

Atlas Obscura readers from across the U.S. share their favorites.

But it's not the biggest.

Up, up, and away over the Alps.

Spoken by Warlpiri under 35, it emerged from code-switching in one remote community.

A beginner's guide to navigating with sound.

And helped launch a corporation now worth more than $40 billion.