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Artist Sergey Jivetin engraves incredibly detailed works using a microscope.

Every detail of the city's architecture and urban planning is in service to the Kim dynasty.

What started as a scientific expedition has turned into a wild tradition.

These mollusks evolved to mosey along at a particularly ponderous pace—the reasons why may surprise you.

Masked figures chase people throughout Mitaarfik.

Our favorite tales of puzzles and perplexities.

We added more than 2,000 places to the Atlas this year—these are 23 of our favorites.

This map shows which parts of the U.S. ignore the science.

Welcome 2024 with a (lemon) pig or a polar bear (plunge).

Today, she's commonly called the Christmas Witch or even "the female Krampus"—but she is so much more.

From mysterious explosions to a squirrel monkey in space, these classic episodes will delight and intrigue you.

Sometimes, especially for unusual subjects, photos just don't get the job done.

Make some room on your bookshelf.

Feast on real-life zombie fungus and tiger tail ice cream.

Places and cultures glow and shine around the world in some of our favorite Atlas Obscura shots.

From Greenland to Western Sahara to Nepal and beyond, here are some of our best cultural stories from 2023.

From cute death omens to post-nuclear-disaster predators, these animals captivated us in 2023.