Atlas Obscura

Are There Plenty of Fish in the Sea? Ask an Elephant Seal.

This story was originally published in bioGraphic and appears here as part of ...

Gettysburg’s First Shot Marker in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

On July 1, 1863, early in the morning, three members of the Union's 8th Illinoi...

Monton Lighthouse in Eccles, England

England has a substantially large canal network, and generally, navigating thes...

Packway Sculpture Park in Cassel, California

Brothers Richard and Will Hathaway sell rock and aggregate outside Burney, Cali...

Farmacia del Puente Mosaics in La Palma, Spain

A working pharmacy might seem like an unlikely place to find religious mosaics,...

Meet the Feminist Resistance Fighter Who Created the Mo...

On May 1, 1942, a small group of communists enjoyed a clandestine celebration in...

Governor’s House in Edinburgh, Scotland

Every day, hundreds if not thousands of visitors arrive into central Edinburgh ...

Victoria Bridge in Enggor, Malaysia

Victoria Bridge, also known as Enggor bridge, is Malaysia’s oldest railway brid...

Tomb of the Nue in Osaka, Japan

According to Japanese mythology, the Nue is a chimeric yōkai monster with the h...

Gróthúsvatn’s Witch Rock in Sandur, Faroe Islands

The island of Sandoy in the Faroese Archipelago is made up of cliffs, caves, la...

C1 Espresso in Christchurch, New Zealand

After the devastating earthquake in Christchurch in 2011 destroyed this coffee ...

Sunnyslope Rock Garden in Phoenix, Arizona

Standing on his newly purchased patch of bare Arizona desert in 1951, Grover Cl...

Ken Shimura Statue in Japan

If you get off the Seibu Railway train at Higashi-Murayama station, a gateway t...

Thomas Briggs’ Plaque in London, England

On July 9, 1864 as the 9:50 p.m. train from Fenchurch Street pulled into Hackne...

How Cold War Spying From Space Connected the Galaxy to ...

Harold Mitchell watched from the cockpit of his plane as a spacecraft fell from ...

Viking Longboat in Andover, England

Upon the River Anton as it passes through Andover, a Viking vessel stands as a ...

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