Photography

These magical images from our readers will inspire you to appreciate night vision.

Including the United States' first coast-to-coast car adventure, its fastest, and one of its absolute worst.

May these amazing shots inspire you to hit the road!

Show us your best shots from after darkness falls, for Atlas Obscura’s next Summer Snaps photo contest.

Stanley Aryanto took a once-in-a-lifetime photo of the Milky Way, Comet NEOWISE, and auroras thanks to planning, patience, and luck. Now he's sharing what he knows.

In 1990, a scientist began visually documenting Prince William Sound’s recovery from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. When funding ran out, volunteers took over.

We want to see your road trip wonders for Atlas Obscura’s first photo contest—Summer Snaps.

Now it's the negatives themselves that need to be saved from time and the elements.

An award-winning photographer shares what these bioluminescent insects have taught him—and how you can capture their beauty.

The Utah aspen grove is one of the world's oldest and largest living things. It's finally getting its close-up.

Photographer Sheila Pree Bright wanted to find a new way of seeing the site and its connection to centuries of racism.

As a supersized sargassum bloom heads toward Florida and the Caribbean, we take a closer look at past big blobs.

Basquiat’s Ferris wheel, Dalí’s fun house, and other wild and whimsical designs are now being restored thanks in part to rap superstar Drake.

Welcome to the home of pink coral-scapes and fluorescent lizardfish.

This Women's History Month, we celebrate women doing extraordinary things all over the world.