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Without this now-obscure land investment scheme, the Yazoo Land Affair, Georgia might have been a "super state."

A celebration of curious, overlooked, and misunderstood creatures.

See the world “any which way” you can, says a seasoned traveler in her 70s.

Author and birding enthusiast Heather Wolf shares her favorite tips for finding our feathered friends.

Freetown's Krio homes preserve an enduring legacy of resilience—but the question of how to save them looms.

Hear the saga of an ambitious, government-backed homestead project that never quite lived up to its hype.

Can you find the Muffler Man in your state?

The ringed planet will be at its closest point to Earth, and opposite the sun, this weekend.

One family's visit to Lake Michigan turns into a wild tale of a missing boy and mysterious tunnels.

Turns out many of the frogs glow, maybe to communicate.

We want to see your wildlife encounters, for Atlas Obscura’s next Summer Snaps photo contest.

We visit a tiny town in West Virginia where, once a year, people jump off a bridge.

The wedge salad's dominance endures.

Eoghan Daltun has spent 14 years creating a showcase of native biodiversity.

We get the backstory to the new novel Whalefall, about a man who finds himself in the belly of a sperm whale.

There is a lot to learn about Orfelia fultoni, the only bioluminescent fly in North America, but its larvae put on a show.

In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn't catch on.