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Meet the Euphonia, a machine that boasted the ability to replicate human speech.

Like many creatures that look strange to us, this one lives deep, deep down in the ocean.

How a whole prehistoric subspecies came to stand in for an extremely modern type of backwardness.

Eliasz Klimowicz's followers believed he was Christ reborn.

Around 187,000 square miles is theirs.

A historian thinks he's finally found the purpose behind centuries-old caves in Edinburgh.

Erotic pottery from the ancient Andean Moche civilization is the world’s most renowned...and explicit.

Watch 4,000 pounds of rainbow trout careen down a slide into a lake.

The exact source of the droning sound has never been discovered.

In the 1980s Atari offered golden treasures as gaming prizes, most of which were lost to time. Until now.

Almost every Indian woman pilot will be in the sky today.

We're looking for your input on how to make Atlas Obscura better.

It's one of the best preserved Civil War-era ships ever discovered.

Only 177 miles from the Arctic Circle lies Northern Europe's largest banana plantation.

Turn right at a burnt-out bridge to find the source of the creek that fed the World's Fair fountains.

Staten Island, Wall Street and the story behind Joan Cusack's hair.

Scientists say they've built a scalable quantum computer.

There's a revolution brewing in that pot of Earl Grey.