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Back to SearchWhere We Would Spend Our Last Day Before the Apocalypse
The staff here at Atlas Obscura answered an unsettling question for this episode: Where would you spend the last day before the apocalypse? Some inte…
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How to Dine Like an Ancient Philosopher
An ancient book contains a controversial Greek recipe, one of the earliest examples of patent law, and answers for a perennial problem: how to make c…
1 year ago
The Library on the Border
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in the United States. For over a century, it was a symbol of friendship between th…
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National Parks Week: Discovery Tree
We visit one of California’s longest-running tourist attractions: A giant stump that helped spark the movement to preserve the state’s natural places…
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National Parks Week: The Allagash Four
On a summer day in 1976, four friends had a strange experience in the Northwoods of Maine that would come back to haunt them decades later. Today, we…
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National Parks Week: Montezuma Well
We visit a mysterious sinkhole in Arizona that has befuddled an exclusive group of divers who’ve gotten a glimpse of a strange world at its sandy bot…
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National Parks Week: Yellowstone’s Zone of Death
A 50-square-mile patch of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho might just be the perfect place to commit a crime. For more unusual stories, lists, and …
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National Parks Week: Talk a Walk, Find A New Species
In March of 2024, a park ranger and volunteer were taking their regular walk together around Big Bend National Park. They came across a teeny tiny fu…
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Little Lambs, Big Back Story
Spring is a popular time to visit Colonial Williamsburg, not least because it’s “lambing season,” the time of year when baby lambs are born and take …
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Dolly Parton’s Dreambox (Classic)
We will always love Dolly Parton, who’s installed a “dreambox” time capsule at her amusement park. In it, there’s a secret song that no one will hear…
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