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A green smudge in a sun-baked orange expanse, the modern oasis of Jubbah was once a lake, and may have appealed to the first members of our species to leave Africa.
exploration

A Desert Oasis Hints at a Long History of Resilience and Exploration

On the Arabian Peninsula, Jubbah holds clues to how humans adapted in the past.
Gemma Tarlach April 20, 2021
Members of Ernest Shackleton's crew grooved to a gramophone.
exploration

Lessons on Enduring a Lonely Winter From Antarctic Voyagers

They whiled away the dark months with poetry, banjos, and Russian grammar—and you can, too.
Daniella McCahey January 6, 2021
The black material found on the final page of Brønlund's diary.
exploration

A Mysterious Black Spot Offers Clues to a Doomed Explorer's Last Moments

Jørgen Brønlund's diary contained information that wasn't written on the page.
Luna Shyr December 18, 2020
Ubiquitous throughout the USSR, Palaces of Culture, such as this one in Pogonnoe, were used to host theater, concerts, and films. The events usually contained explicit Soviet political messages.
disasters

Exploring Chernobyl's Imprint on Neighboring Belarus

The Polesie State Radioecological Reserve is close to Ukraine's Exclusion Zone, but a world away.
Darmon Richter September 22, 2020
Äventyrsgruvan Tuna-Hästberg (Tuna-Hästberg Adventure Mine)
Borlänge V, Sweden

Äventyrsgruvan Tuna-Hästberg (Tuna-Hästberg Adventure Mine)

A centuries-old iron mine is now a paradise for explorers, divers, and spelunkers.
Oates is depicted in the upper right.
Halstead, England

The Village Signs of Gestingthorpe

A hunched figure depicted on the signs honors a local gentleman who died on an Antarctic expedition.
Robert Falcon Scott’s 1902 Discovery Hut, at Hut Point, with Observation Hill in the background.
exploration

Preserved Antarctic Huts Reveal the Isolated Existence of Early Explorers

They "were essentially stuck in their bunks for the whole winter."
Emma Jacobs June 8, 2020
List

History Tour: Adventures at the Poles

The race to the ends of the Earth, in 14 remarkable places.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 27, 2020
A double-decker root bridge in Meghalaya.
exploration

What Atlas Obscura Membership Means

We wouldn’t exist without curious explorers like you.
Dylan Thuras and Josh Foer May 7, 2020
Behold the bonkers, baroque design of the Klementinum Library in Prague.
libraries

7 Spectacular Libraries You Can Explore From Your Living Room

You can almost smell the old books.
Claire Voon April 24, 2020
maps

The Intrepid Mother and Son Who Unraveled a Geographic Hoax

Atlas Obscura had a page for something called Moose Boulder, until fan Roger Dickey called us on it.
Matthew Taub April 27, 2023
An etching of the expedition
Edinburgh, Scotland

Grave of Lieutenant John Irving

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.
Lake Bonney looks quiet, but it's full of life.
science

If You Look Very, Very Close, Antarctica Is Teeming With Life

Meet the icy continent's menagerie of microbes.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 17, 2020
The Monument to David Henderson at Calamity Pond.
Lake Placid, New York

David Henderson Memorial

This memorial in the Adirondack wilderness honors the accidental death of a Scottish entrepreneur.
Trim the Cat.
Sydney, Australia

Trim the Cat

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.
Annie Brassey on the deck of <em>Sunbeam</em>. She wrote a famed account of her time at sea.
sailors

The Adventurous Seafaring Women of the Age of Sail, in Their Own Words

Answering the call of the sea.
Kyle Hoekstra November 25, 2019
This detail from a map by C. Smith & Son features a lot of falling water.
maps

The 19th-Century Charts That Put the World's Waterfalls on One Impossible Landscape

Imagine the roar.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 8, 2019
A base camp on the Nepalese side of Everest.
exploration

Nepal Is Banning Single-Use Plastics On and Around Everest

Will it help solve the peak's trash problems?
Evan Nicole Brown August 26, 2019