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Joshua Foer

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2008

I'm the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura, along with Dylan Thuras. I'm also the author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything.
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    You explored one of America's most iconic highways by marking at least three remarkable places along historic Route 66.

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    You've visited 25 U.S. states and are halfway to exploring all 50. Every state has its own hidden wonders, and you're well on your way to discovering them.

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The Baby Jumping Festival

Castrillo de Murcia, Spain

The Baby Jumping Festival

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

Can you hear it?

New York, New York

Times Square Hum

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Museum of Ancient Life

Lehi, Utah

Museum of Ancient Life

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

The Red Wine Spa.

Hakone, Japan

Yunessun Spa Resort

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

The remains of Old Newgate Prison

East Granby, Connecticut

Old Newgate Prison

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

The Newport Tower

Newport, Rhode Island

Newport Tower

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

A row of nitrate storage vaults at the Packard Campus

Culpeper, Virginia

National Audio-Visual Conservation Center

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

Jantar Mantar

Jaipur, India

Jantar Mantar

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Villa las Estrellas in Antarctica

King George Island, Antarctica

Villa Las Estrellas

One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.

The dome is visible from the air—a perfect circle concealing something darker.

Marshall Islands

Cactus Dome

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

Cerro Negro

Nicaragua

Cerro Negro

The youngest volcano in Central America.

Alamo Village
Permanently Closed

Brackettville, Texas

Alamo Village

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

Aerial view of Lake Hillier

Australia

Lake Hillier

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

S.S. Palo Alto

Powell River, British Columbia

S.S. Peralta

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei (Yonaguni Monument)

Yonaguni, Japan

Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei (Yonaguni Monument)

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

UTA Flight 772 Memorial

N'Guigmi, Niger

UTA Flight 772 Memorial

The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.

Natuurbrug Zanderij Crailoo

Hilversum, Netherlands

Natuurbrug Zanderij Crailoo

The world's longest wildlife overpass provides Hilversum's critters with a safe alternative to trying their luck on the roadway.

Severed Arm of Saint Edmund

Stonington, Connecticut

Severed Arm of Saint Edmund

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Flogsta is quiet and calm by day but by night...

Uppsala, Sweden

The Flogsta Scream

A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.

A street marker on the road to Y.

Y, France

Y, France

This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.

Troublesome Creek

Clayhole, Kentucky

Troublesome Creek

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

Hanging Temple

Datong, China

Hanging Temple of Hengshan

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Ra Paulette's Hand-Carved Caves

New Mexico

Ra Paulette's Hand-Carved Caves

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Dublin Whiskey Fire

Dublin, Ireland

Dublin Whiskey Fire

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

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