Lists by Dark Nebula Deluxe

Atlas Obscura features so many pubs on its website that it's possible to create a pub crawl based just on the sites.  Take a day to try to visit as many of these pubs on this as you can.

Atlas Obscura is a good source of information on attractions that are located in out-of-the-way places, that are cleverly hidden in or near highly trafficked areas, or that might be in prominent locations in well-visited areas but that are so unusual that they desrve the label "obscure".   Sometimes, though, Atlas Obscura lists places that are simply so famous, so prominent, or so mainstream that they don't really seem to belong in its list.  Here is a (subjective) list of some of the less obscure Atlas Obscura sites.

Atlas Obscura does not feature maps of added places for individual users yet, so I created this list to show the places that I travelled to and then added to the website.

While most Atlas Obscura sites are truly unique or unusual locations, some entries seem much more like everyday locations that simply slipped by the editors.  This (subjective) list covers some of the more mundane entries on the Atlas Obscura website, including bland public sculptures, overhyped office buildings, cherry-picked museum exhibits, and non-notable examples of ubiquitous trends.

London has over one thousand official blue plaques (a scheme currently run by English Heritage) as well as thousands of imitators.  These plaques celebrate the very large number of very famous people who have lived in London over the centuries.  Somehow, a small number of these plaques were cherry-picked for Atlas Obscura.  The plaques themselves and the buildings that they are located on are not that interesting.  If these locations were museums (like the Handel and Hendrix Experience) or sites where special events had taken place in recent times (such as the displays outside Freddy Mercury's former home) or sites where the locations themselves were of interest (such as the Ziggy Stardust plaque located where the album cover was photographed), then they would be interesting.  Alternately, if they were located in places with very few famous people (like the plaque recognizing the creation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Dover, New Hampshire, USA), that would be interesting.  Otherwise, they just seem to be ordinary plaques that really should not be included as individual entries on Atlas Obscura.

Suggested city (or county) locations are listed for each entry inside quotation marks.  Atlas Obscura sometimes struggles with its geocoding of UK locations.  This could be because the political divisions in the United Kingdom are complicated and may be difficult for non-residents to understand or for computer programs to interpret.  This list features places with either inaccurate place names (the actual sites are located far from the listed cities in the thumbnails) or imprecise place names (a county name is used instead of a city name, or a neighborhood is specified when no one used that neighborhood in mailing addresses).  

People in the United Kingdom take great pride in the design of their street furniture, particularly their iconic telephone boxes and their post office boxes.  Here is a list of where to find the country's most outstanding street furniture.

As the world's oldest underground mass transit system, the London Underground and its various stations feature quite a few oddities.