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Apocalypse

Our producer Manolo Morales would spend his final days perusing the shelves at Book Off.

Where Would You Go to Wait for the Apocalypse?

Would you experience something new or go somewhere familiar? You’ll find our team at a lake house, in a comic shop, or ... at Costco?

The Podcast Team June 18, 2025

Conspiracy theorists believe X marks the spot over Carbondale.

Why Doomsayers Think the Eclipse Will Bring Disaster to Illinois

The town of Carbondale sits in the middle of an astronomical crossroads.

Leah Hudson March 26, 2024

The Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls (Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura), built in the fourth century.

No, Eclipses and Other Strange Sights Are Not Signs of the Apocalypse

An eclipse isn’t an omen of doom, and neither are Mayan calendars, red lakes, or papal portraits.

Kerry Wolfe March 11, 2024

The view from Cobbs Hill Park

Rochester, New York

Cobb’s Hill

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

If humans go extinct, mushrooms may rule the world.

This Engineer Is Preparing to Feed a World Without Sunlight

How do you feed eight billion people during a nuclear winter?

Reina Gattuso February 19, 2019

Soylent

One fantasy food's journey from sci-fi vegan steak to silver screen cannibalism to actual meal replacement.

The 'Doomsday Clock' Is Now as Close to Midnight as It's Ever Been

According to experts, threats to humanity haven't been this serious since 1953!

Cara Giaimo January 25, 2018

An image from Pouria Khojastehpay's series <em>Dustwound</em>.

How to Build an Unsettlingly Real Apocalyptic Landscape

One artist’s stark, brutalist, dystopian vision of the future.

Anika Burgess October 3, 2017

Deed Rock.

Worcester, Massachusetts

Deed Rock

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst

Haywards Heath, England

Millennium Seed Bank

Nearly 2 billion seeds from 38,000 species are stored and processed at this visitable facility in a quiet corner of England.

Not the Doomsday Clock. (This is the <a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/prague-astronomical-clock">Prague Astronomical Clock</a>.)

According to Experts, We Just Ticked Closer to Apocalypse

Every year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists updates the Doomsday Clock.

Cara Giaimo January 25, 2017

Permanently Closed

Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, Egypt

End of the World Cinema

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

The Mystical Early Pennsylvania Settler Who Lived in a Cave

Johannes Kelpius was really keen on the apocalypse.

Ed Simon September 27, 2016

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Cave of Kelpius

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

space exploration

The Extinction-Level Asteroid That Could Kill Us All in 2175

Meet 101955 Bennu.

Erik Shilling August 3, 2016

Pyramiden

Pyramiden, Norway

Pyramiden

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

Canyon created by removing burnt shale at Brennender Berg

Sulzbach, Germany

Brennender Berg

Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."

The Ohio Superstore That Beat Walmart by Giving Up Electricity

Sarah Laskow September 28, 2015