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Atlas Obscura’s Guide to Nebraska’s Wackiest and Most Wondrous Summer Events

From the “World’s Largest Chicken Dance” to a week-long star party, don’t miss these funky events in the Cornhusker State.
The bird has been working with humans for millennia.
nature

Helpful Honeyguides Have a Long and Sweet Alliance With Humans

Across sub-Saharan Africa, these birds lead humans to hidden bee colonies.
Cara Giaimo May 3, 2024
Verónica Oviedo (center) began the all-female mariachi band Mujer Latina in 2004.
aliens

7 Stories to Toast To Cinco de Mayo

Replace that margarita with vino de cocos.
April White May 3, 2024
A colorful orgy in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is triggered by the moon.
nature

Australia's Synchronized Coral Spawning Can Be Seen From Space

The world’s largest living structure renews itself in nights of moonlit passion.
Melissa Scott Sinclair April 26, 2024
East End, Cayman Islands

The Blowholes

This natural rock formation spouts jets of water into the air.
nature

Podcast: Oh, the Places You Will Go... to See These Notable Trees

Celebrity trees can leave a deep-rooted impression.
The Podcast Team April 24, 2024
This Color Sergeant butterfly from West Bengal, India has female characteristics on the left side (orange) and male on the right.
nature

Gynandromorphs Are Nature's Nonbinary Beauties

From birds to butterflies, there are many examples of animals that combine male and female characteristics.
Miles Griffis April 19, 2024
Mexican Hat, Utah

Mexican Hat

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.
A Juvenile Sulawesi Warty Pig, Sus celebensis in Buton Island, Sulawesi Indonesia. These pigs live in the forest but frequently come into local people's farms and steal crops.
nature

Sulawesi Warty Pigs May Have Been Our Earliest Muses

More than 45,000 years ago, these porky foragers inspired the earliest known non-abstract art.
Christina Ayele Djossa April 12, 2024
nature

Where The Wild Things Are: 8 Animal Experiences in Florida

Interactive wildlife attractions let you experience your favorite animals up close.
Great Basin bristlecone pines are seemingly immortal trees that can often withstand the knobby twists of fate.
nature

Are Bristlecone Pines Really Immortals Living Among Us?

These scrappy and squat high-elevation trees can live for thousands of years without seeming to age.
Ula Chrobak April 5, 2024
Epic views of the “Grand Canyon of the Ozarks” along the Scenic 7 Byway in Jasper, Arkansas.
Itinerary

9 Amazing Arkansas Adventures Along the Scenic 7 Byway

Thermal springs, diamond digging, and “spudnuts”
Wellsville, Kansas

Black Jack Battlefield

Some say that the battle fought at this Kansas site in 1856 was the first unofficial battle of the American Civil War.
Honduran white bats (<em>Ectophylla alba</em>) huddle under heliconia leaf in Braulio Carillo National Park, Costa Rica.
nature

The Elegant, Intelligent Architecture of Tent-Making Bats

More than 20 species of these winged mammals construct tiny leaf homes with climate control and built-in security alarms.
Cara Giaimo March 15, 2024
The Crooked House pub in Staffordshire, photographed in April 2023. A brick-built public house. The building was severely affected by subsidence.
science

Wonder Is Everywhere: Return of the Crooked House, World's Oldest Bread, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White March 15, 2024
A large warehouse lined with tables full of produce and goods.
Paramaribo, Suriname

Maroon Market

This "witch's market" is filled with Amazonian herbs, remedies, and the occasional libido-strengthening tincture.
Souris, Prince Edward Island

Singing Sands Beach

A walk along this white sand beach creates a symphony.
Omarama Clay Cliffs
Quailburn, New Zealand

Omarama Clay Cliffs

Towering earthen formations that rise straight out of the ground in New Zealand .