28 Items Tagged

Future

Metroteka

This alluring underground library, hidden in a suburban Metro station, features a Space Age aesthetic and its own hydroponic garden.

You can use any type of onion to make a calendar, but the Eszlingers prefer yellow.

How to Consult an Onion Oracle

From the Midwest to a tiny town in Italy, the tradition of weather-predicting onions lives on.

Roxanne Hoorn May 3, 2024

Leuven, Belgium

The Inventor of Time Travel Plaque

Above the door of a house, a plaque claims to commemorate the future living place of the inventor of time travel.

Reversible Destiny Lofts Mitaka

A colorful, architectural experiment designed to increase a resident's longevity.

8 Supernatural Spots You Can Only Find in Northern Kentucky

Indulge your proclivity for the paranormal and explore the mystifying side of the Bluegrass State.

Sponsored By Meet Northern Kentucky

Podcast: The Italian War on Pasta

The surprisingly delicious outcome of a fascist campaign.

The Podcast Team June 26, 2023

Paul Gong, <em>Human Hyena</em>, 2014.

A Cookbook for Surviving the End of the World

Fancy a spit-roasted roasted alien? Urine whiskey? A deep-fried Game Boy?

Sam Lin-Sommer October 26, 2022

Could we genetically engineer cats to glow when exposed to radiation, thus warning future generations about nuclear waste sites?

Can Glowing 'Ray Cats' Save Humanity?

There are some strange ideas about how to send a warning to our descendants 100,000 years from now.

Kate Golembiewski October 25, 2022

Podcast: Quarantine at Malta Lazaretto

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team February 7, 2022

Natchitoches, Louisiana

Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame

A remarkably futuristic building sits in the oldest town in Louisiana.

For Sale: A $1 Million Bottle of Bordeaux Aged in Space

After 14 months on the ISS, the vintage Petrus could be yours.

Luke Fater May 10, 2021

18 Places to Discover Innovation in Roosevelt Island and NYC

The story of the city that never sleeps is inscribed with a past full of technological innovation, engineering wonders, and scientific discoveries.

Sponsored By Graduate Hotels

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Floating Farm

The world's first floating farm is staffed by one human, three robots, and 35 cows.

The ancient settlement of Angamuco in Mexico as visualized by lidar, which reveals topography and ruins (at top) obscured by the dense jungle.

Can We Make a 3-D Map of the Whole World?

A lidar project wants to document the entire planet, before everything changes.

Isaac Schultz October 22, 2019

Detail of the time capsule boxes.

Caja de las Letras

A vault of safe-deposit boxes in an old bank has been repurposed as a time capsule of Hispanic culture.

Permanently Closed

Munich, Germany

Pinakothek der Moderne Futuro House

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

science fiction

16 Real Places That Look Like They're From the Future

Atlas Obscura readers nominate their favorite science fiction-inspired spots around the world.

Eric Grundhauser May 14, 2019

Space10 is located in Copenhagen's fashionable Meatpacking District.

Inside IKEA’s Laboratory of Futuristic Foods

Assemble and enjoy bug burgers, mealworm meatballs, and algae hot dogs.

Rohini Chaki April 2, 2019