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Legends swirl around the University of Edinburgh’s mysterious graduation bonnet.

Author and Atlas Obscura columnist Colin Dickey takes us on a wild, alien-filled ride.

This sculptor's work is for people...and fish.

Vegan chef George Lee’s new cookbook explores the potential of plant-based foods.

The living germ artworks must be destroyed after creation.

Polar explorer Edmund Stump has made 13 field trips to research and photograph the southern continent.

Northern lights in the American South, clusters of huge geomagnetic storms—the Sun is throwing a tantrum right on schedule.

A field guide to the most invigorating subterranean adventures in the Mountain State

Cliffside with Argentina's burrowing parrots, biologist Juan Masello has broken bones, crushed a vein, and nearly drowned.

From a rubber duck contest to hypnotizing chickens.

Feast on a Dorito bigger than your head.

British Columbia's Kitasu Bay is the first Indigenous-protected marine park in the world.

A small town museum remembers where the infamous—but often misunderstood—couple’s story ended.

But no one's ever seen them there.

Every five to seven years, Chile's Atacama Desert shows its true colors.

The 1972 documentary cast a warm light on a vilified country.

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