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Animals

Hemingway's Six-Toed Cats, Whose Future Remains Fuzzy

Megan Roberts November 20, 2013

Animal Locomotion: Reanimating Muybridge's 19th Century Illustrations with GIFs

Allison Meier November 19, 2013

Alice, Oxford, and the Dodo

Annetta Black November 19, 2013

The Rock and Fossil and Dinosaur Shop

Deerfield, Massachusetts

The Rock and Fossil and Dinosaur Shop

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

essential guide

Animal Islands: Seven Islands Ruled by Creatures Great and Small

Allison Meier November 18, 2013

Introducing Atlas Obscura's Animal Week

Allison Meier November 18, 2013

On of the polar bears in the museum.

Hammerfest, Norway

Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society

This one-room museum is dedicated to Norwegian history and jokes.

Hamer, South Carolina

South of the Border

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Station Jim

Slough, England

Station Jim

This preserved puppy was an adorable beacon of charity.

Coleford, England

Puzzlewood

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Nanjemoy, Maryland

The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

Gibbon Conservation Center, 10/4/2015

Santa Clarita, California

Gibbon Conservation Center

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

Meknes, Morocco

Volubilis Archaeological Site

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

White Post, Virginia

Dinosaurland

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The Ostwall Fortification

The Ostwall Fortification

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

KattenKabinet

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

The Guardhouse Monkey

Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

curious fact of the week

Curious Fact of the Week: The Fine Felines of the Cat House

Allison Meier October 28, 2013