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The home.

literature

Jack Kerouac's Last Home to Be Sold

His nephew says it will become a museum.

Erik Shilling
Atlas Obscura
April 4, 2017
Look out!

motorcycles

Motorcyclist Meets Flying Mattress and Somehow Survives

It was captured on video.

Eric Grundhauser
Atlas Obscura
April 4, 2017
A Rax in Lancaster, Ohio.

tedium

The Surprising Resilience of Failed Fast Food Chains

Losing can be an opportunity to do something different.

Ernie Smith
Atlas Obscura
April 4, 2017
Welcome to Miami Beach.

linguistics

'Miami English' and the Linguistic Oddness of South Florida

South Beach speech is like no other.

Dan Nosowitz
Atlas Obscura
April 4, 2017
The view from Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, Montana.

climate change

This Century-Long Photo Project Documents Montana's Shrinking Glaciers

Repeat photography from 70 spots shows the stark differences over decades.

Andy Wright
Atlas Obscura
April 4, 2017
A woman smoking outside a cafe in Paris.

money

The French Government Is About to Destroy $106,000,000 Worth of Cigarettes

Now we know who to bum a smoke from.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
April 4, 2017
The preserved tick, full of blood.

fossils

Found: An Ancient Tick Preserved in Amber With Fossilized Mammal Blood

There’s a reason why this sounds so much like the beginning of Jurassic Park.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
April 4, 2017
Molly Lewis: “It’s the weird and the wonderful, and that’s why I love it.”

subculture

Listen to the Strange and Wonderful Sound of One of Earth's Best Whistlers

“You can’t really study or learn whistling, but it is kind of magical to see and hear.”

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
April 4, 2017
The desk drawer covered in haiku.

furniture

A Forgotten Desk Drawer Hid a Poetic Pop Culture Gem

How haikus written during a boozy night found their way back to their famed authors.

Shin Yu Pai
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2017
The moment the larger squid strikes!

squid

A Squid-on-Squid Ambush

Behold the horrors of the open ocean.

Eric Grundhauser
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2017
Patented coffin torpedoes, for all your grave-defending needs!

victorian

Victorian 'Coffin Torpedoes' Blasted Would-Be Body Snatchers

Grave robbing got more hazardous in the 1880s.

Lucy Tiven
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2017
The entrance to the seed vault illuminated at night.

data

The Svalbard Seed Vault Just Got a New Vault Neighbor

This time, it's for data.

Erik Shilling
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2017
Adam and Eve made an appearance on the bottom-right corner of the map.

map monday

The 15th-Century Monk Who Crowdsourced a Map of the World

Fra Mauro was the Google Earth of the 1450s.

Adam Kessler
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2017
Brian Thompson samples the reward at the end of his quest.

journalism

Chasing McDonald's Pizza, Deep Into Ohio

Podcaster Brian Thompson's jokey search for a lost menu item has led him on some surprisingly serious adventures.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2017
A Wharram Percy bone showing knife cuts.

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Found: First Evidence in England of Burning Dead Bodies to Keep Them From Rising

In medieval times, belief in revenants was widespread.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2017
Humans Teamed Up to Rescue Elephants From a Large Hole

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Humans Teamed Up to Rescue Elephants From a Large Hole

The animals were trapped in a very muddy bomb crater.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2017
A practice (inert) bomb is bounced during a training flight by members of RAF 617 Squadron at Reculver bombing range in Kent.

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A Piece of a WWII 'Bouncing Bomb' Washed Up on an English Beach

It was just for practice.

Samir S. Patel
Atlas Obscura
March 31, 2017
Just headed off to coding class.

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Is This Montana Bear Carrying a Laptop?

The video is inconclusive.

Eric Grundhauser
Atlas Obscura
March 31, 2017
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