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Atlas Obscura Gift Guide: 8 Out-There Presents For the Big Dreamer

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Atlas Obscura Gift Guide: 7 Tech Presents for the Gadgeteer

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Atlas Obscura Gift Guide: 8 Presents for the Americana Buff

holiday

Atlas Obscura Gift Guide: 7 Presents for the Dinner Party Prankster

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Atlas Obscura Gift Guide: How to Stock a Wunderkammer in a Week Using Amazon

travel writing

Passports Were Once Considered Offensive—Perhaps They Still Are

bears

Fleeting Wonders: A Bus-Sized Polar Bear, Powered By Activists

underwater

The Labyrinthine 'Underground Flower Garden' Caves Beneath Budapest

film locations

The Tribeca Fire Station That Got a Starring Role in Ghostbusters

castles

FOUND: The Walls of a 12th-Century Castle, Buried Beneath a Prison

santa claus

The Danish Anarchists Who Inspired SantaCon Could Not Have Imagined Its Bro-Hell Future

oso

How Dreamcatchers Went from Sacred Tradition to the Malls of America

flight

The Absurdly Complete History of Animals Parachuting From the Sky

iceland

Iceland's Yule Lads Are Like 13 Demented Santas and They Are Amazing

Before they were mischievous but friendly characters who came to lick your spoons, they were terrors.

soviet day

Meet the Most Famous Michigander in Kazakhstan

soviet day

How Candid Camera Spied On Muscovites At The Height Of The Cold War

soviet day

LOST: Russian Spacecraft

soviet day

Fleeting Wonders: All The Soviet Monuments In Poland