Articles by Allison Meier

wunderkammers

Ole Worm Returns: An Iconic 17th Century Curiosity Cabinet is Obsessively Recreated

rats

Curious Fact of the Week: Karni Mata Temple Rats

The Subculture Nomad: Discovering the World's Strange Side with Tokyo Blogger La Carmina

cryptozoology

Glimpse Millions of Years Into Evolution's Past With Sequenced Coelacanth Genome

medical museums

The Healing Saints and the Medicine of the Divine

Infamous Gate to Hell Found in Turkey, Where It Continues to Breathe Its Deathly Air

medical museums

Curious Fact of the Week: The Irish Giant

magic

Houdini's Milk Can Escape, Where Failure Meant Death by Drowning

outsider art

The Elaborate Healing Machines of Emery Blagdon

Vietnam's New Fire-Breathing Dragon Bridge

notes from the field

Notes from the Field: Musée des Arts Forains, the Paris Carnival Arts Museum

curious fact of the week

Curious Fact of the Week: Swallowed Objects

cosmonauts

Atlas Obscura's Essential Guide to Cosmonautics

The Miniature Alabaster Mourners of the Tomb of John the Fearless

buckminster fuller

A Space Age Love Song for Buckminster Fuller

Wanderlust in Residence at Atlas Obscura

automotive history

The Hélica: The Car that Dreamed it was a Plane

Curious Fact of the Week: Giant Crystals of Naica

pet cemeteries

Notes from the Field: The Cemetery of the Dogs

Belle Starr the Bandit Queen: How a Southern Girl Became a Legendary Western Outlaw

After Almost Being Knocked Down, A Whimsical Tower is Being Helped to its 50th Birthday

Curious Fact of the Week: The Rat King

notes from the field

Two Martyrs of Science from a Fatal Balloon Ride Rest Hand-in-Hand in Pere Lachaise Cemetery

How Did the Whale Get That Tail? The AMNH Takes You Back to Its Aquatic Ancestry