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Niches in the walls hinted at the building's past.

According to Atlas Obscura readers.

A massive mollusk recently found in the Hudson River is the latest example of two centuries of appreciating behemoth bivalves.

Visiting the remains of the doomed ship causes it damage—but so will just leaving it there.

The flying insects usually go solo—but one lepidopterist surprised hundreds snoozing together in a hollow tree.

What would happen if briny Martian liquid met an Earthling cucumber?

One of the fiercest opponents of British colonialists had rockets unlike any his enemies had seen.

Lucy Sparrow is making food fuzzier.

Generations of nocturnal fishermen have lured their catch with fire.

Corn husks get the star treatment.

Meet the smallest straphangers.

Every piece of flotsam has a story to tell.

Answers included ghostly encounters, unforgettable hikes, and Bing Crosby.

They're few and far between.

The worms, all female, thawed out and started eating.

Each one is unique, though they share a common locale.

A stone monument marks this symbolic last moment of post-WWII repatriation.

But why?