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Exploration

Did a Coded Message Lead an American to a Lost Civilization in China?

In 2016, the odds of finding a "lost" civilization or even city seem low.

Sarah Laskow April 19, 2016

Inside Atlas Obscura’s All-Night Adventure at the Explorers Club

Atlas Obscura February 11, 2016

Were Portuguese Explorers the First Europeans To Find Australia?

Eric Grundhauser January 25, 2016

19th-Century Atlases Included Hundreds of Fake Islands

Sarah Laskow January 12, 2016

One of the grander uses of a pineapple motif, at Dunmore House in Scotland.

The Hidden History of the Housewarming Pineapple

Cale Weissman November 14, 2022

Atlas Obscura Gift Guide: 9 Gifts for the Passport Stamp Collector

Lex Berko December 10, 2015

Húsafell, Iceland

Into The Glacier

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

SS Richard Montgomery's eerie masts at low tide

Wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery

No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.

Christ Church Cathedral

Stanley, Falkland Islands

Christ Church Cathedral

The southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world has whale bones standing in its yard.

Auschwitz

Dystopia, Death, and the Growing Popularity of Dark Tourism

Tina Amirtha October 30, 2015

The Navy's first experimental underwater habitat: SEALAB-1

Panama City Beach, Florida

Man in the Sea Museum

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Photos From a Perilous 464-Day Sled Journey Across the Frozen Arctic Ocean

Anika Burgess October 28, 2015

Fiction's Newest Frontier: Literary Geocaching

Tao Tao Holmes October 9, 2015

Hindu deity,

Take a Grand Tour of the World's Great Tattoos

Sarah Laskow September 17, 2015

San Francisco Bay Discovery Site

Pacifica, California

Ohlone - Portolá Heritage Site

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

Permanently Closed

A crowd gathers streetside for a monthly service

Los Angeles, California

almighty Opp

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

Datura stramonium,

Meet the Genghis Khans of the Plant Kingdom

Sarah Laskow August 25, 2015

How Climate Change Is Melting Polar History

Sarah Laskow August 14, 2015