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Katie Brumbach enjoyed hoisting her husband above her head and making diners feel at home.

Wins and windfalls of all different varieties.

Find a pickle, win a special gift.

Strong and flexible building materials, inspired by ocean life.

Hostile architecture for birds has a lot in common with hostile architecture for humans.

Weekly gift ideas from the staff of Atlas Obscura.

Athletic hijabs, cancer cures, magic glasses, and more.

Dr. Alan Newman added more places to the Atlas this year than anyone else.

The fossil record of the southern continent has much to offer.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.

In the Peruvian province of Chumbivilcas, physical conflict is an annual sporting event.

It took 17 years to find the signature of "Moonlight" Graham, who played a single major-league game.

New research is showing just how coveted meteoritic iron was in the Bronze Age.

High-tech imaging tools are taking researchers under the paint, layer by layer.

Thanks to a visualization tool being used to develop stem cell therapies.

Small, but fierce and well-armed.

The remains of St. Nick can be found on multiple continents.

For 23 years he role-played in holiday letters to his children.