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Moose are frequently spotted around Flattop Mountain and the Glen Alps Trailhead.
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Brands of all sorts used recipes to sell products in the post-war era.

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American Food Traditions That Started as Marketing Ploys

Your grandma didn't invent that recipe.

Diana Hubbell
Atlas Obscura
September 30, 2024
Few folk figures have endured like Baba Yaga, who has been described as witch, mentor, villain, trickster, and now, perhaps, a feminist icon.

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Who Is Baba Yaga?

Trickster, mentor, probable goddess—Slavic folklore's most famous villain is so much more than a witch.

Kris Spisak
Atlas Obscura
September 30, 2024
Meet the Chef Blending Global Cuisines With Colorado Flavors

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Meet the Chef Blending Global Cuisines With Colorado Flavors

The Centennial State's food scene is entering its golden age–and bigger things are yet to come.

Sponsored By Visit Colorado
This 1882 engraving of Ragnarok, the Viking doomsday, shows Odin mounted on a horse and fighting the wolf Fenrir.

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7 Stories That Show Just How Metal the Nordics Are

From Viking werewolves to snacking on pickled ram's testicles, Europe's northernmost countries are badass.

Roxanne Hoorn
Atlas Obscura
September 27, 2024
Victorian dress-up at Dickens on The Strand.

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10 Fascinating Festivals in Galveston, Texas

Good times go far beyond beach season on this unusual island

Sponsored By Visit Galveston
The smell of baking pretzels at an Auntie Anne's is an inescapable part of their branding.

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How Chain Restaurants Use Smells to Entice Us

When it comes to marketing food, scent can be as important as flavor.

Andrew Coletti
Atlas Obscura
September 26, 2024
Podcast: Small Town, Big Story: The Pennsic Wars of Slippery Rock, PA

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Podcast: Small Town, Big Story: The Pennsic Wars of Slippery Rock, PA

Every summer, more than 10,000 people flock to this Pennsylvania town for two weeks for the largest gathering of medieval arts and culture anywhere in the world.

Sponsored By GoUSA TV
Don't believe the hype about object 2024 PT5 being a "mini-moon." We have only one moon, seen here during the Artemis I mission in 2022.

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Our 'Mini-Moon' 2024 PT5 Is Mini—But It's Not a Moon

The space rock taking a surprise swing around our planet is just visiting from Earth's asteroid belt.

Rebecca Boyle
Atlas Obscura
September 25, 2024
The mummies of Tarim Basin are up to 3,600 years old.

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This Mummy Cheese Is Full of Ancient Secrets

The world's oldest known cheese holds the key to kefir's mysterious origins.

Roxanne Hoorn
Atlas Obscura
September 25, 2024
Podcast: Small Town, Big Story: Heating Up in Thermopolis, WY

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Podcast: Small Town, Big Story: Heating Up in Thermopolis, WY

This town of less than 3,000 is also home to a literal melting pot — of boiling water, rich rock formations, bath robes and dinosaur bones.

Sponsored By GoUSA TV
Foxfire is the bioluminescence created by some species of fungi that grow on decaying wood, like this Omphalotus nidiformis, or ghost fungus.

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Foxfire Brings Magical Light to the Dark Forest

These mushrooms are aglow with a beautiful bioluminescence.

Leigh Ann Henion
Atlas Obscura
September 25, 2024
Podcast: Small Town, Big Story: The Giant Omelet of Abbeville, LA

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Podcast: Small Town, Big Story: The Giant Omelet of Abbeville, LA

Every year, thousands of people come from across the country to march through the streets, play music, celebrate French culture, and cook up an absolutely enormous omelet.

Sponsored By GoUSA TV
For more than a century, people have traveled to Amherst to see where Emily Dickinson lived.

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How a TV Show Brought New Fans (and Furniture) to Emily Dickinson's House

The poet’s home-turned-museum has embraced its pop-culture moment.

Elizabeth Minkel
Atlas Obscura
September 23, 2024
The pawpaw has a brief seasonal window, from September to October.

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Foraging for America's Forgotten Fruit

A guide to finding, prepping, and enjoying the pawpaw.

Sam O'Brien
Atlas Obscura
September 23, 2024
Podcast: Small Town, Big Story: The Storytellers of Jonesborough, TN

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Podcast: Small Town, Big Story: The Storytellers of Jonesborough, TN

Every October, amateurs and professionals alike gather in this small town in the Appalachian Mountains to hone their storytelling chops and share them with crowds of thousands.

Sponsored By GoUSA TV
Germany’s North and Baltic Seas are littered with munitions from World War I and World War II.

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Bombs Litter the Baltic Sea—Now Robots Are on Cleanup Duty

In the wake of war, the Baltic was used as a munitions dumping ground. Now, an ambitious cleanup is underway.

Paul Hockenos
Atlas Obscura
September 23, 2024
Nineteenth-century illustrator George Cruikshank depicted indigestion as torment by imps.

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Does Our Stomach Define Who We Are?

In her new book, Elsa Richardson explores how the gut has been viewed across history.

Andrew Coletti
Atlas Obscura
September 20, 2024
The world of competitive pumpkin growing has come a long way since 1901, when this giant pumpkin weighed a mere 91 pounds.

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5 Stories to Make You Fall in Love With Autumn

It's the season of harvest-guarding stones and cities of squash.

Roxanne Hoorn
Atlas Obscura
September 19, 2024
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