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How the Great Lakes Formed—And the Mystery...

January 11, 2024

Stand on the rocky shoreline near the foot of the Pointe Aux Barques lighthouse, at the tip of the thumb of Lower Michigan, and look north across the blue expanse of Lake Huron. You will not see any caribou. But they were there, as were the humans that scientists believe hunted them nearly 10,000 years ago. Now, thanks to innovative technology, determination, and luck, archaeologists are bringing this lost human history to the surface, and piecing together the mystery...

How Ukraine’s Museum Curators Are Risking Life...

January 11, 2024

When Larysa Kramarenko entered what was left of her brother’s house, a small icon of Jesus Christ hanging on wall was the only thing the Russians had left behind. The invading troops had occupied the northeastern city of Izium for nearly six months before fleeing in panic in the face of a Ukrainian counter-offensive that liberated large swathes of territory in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. “They took absolutely everything from his house,” says Tetyana Fiks, a 37-year-old curator...

The Life and Death of the American...

January 10, 2024

I’ve visited hundreds of abandoned places in my life—factories to asylums, schools to churches—but suburban malls might be the most surreal and striking. They captivate the imagination in a way few other types of environments can: with an almost imperceptible layer of fog that forms between the first and second floors of an atrium, endless reflections of vacant storefronts, or a chance encounter with a groundhog in the remains of a food court. Stripped of signage and wares, they...

Do You Speak Chicken?

January 9, 2024

A hiss from your cat, a growl from your dog—you don’t need four legs to recognize these warnings. Back off. Quit it. Danger. Most of us can also translate soft purrs or playful yips as contentment or an invitation to play. It turns out humans may be just as good at understanding the language of our feathered friends. A recent study in Royal Society Open Science shows that humans can intuitively pick up on basic chicken emotions—excitement and discontent—by...

Uncovering the Forgotten Female Astronomers of Yerkes...

January 9, 2024

The quest started with a single, black-and-white photograph. A massive telescope dominates the frame. In May 1921, when the image was captured, the 54-foot-long, 1,200-pound refracting telescope at the University of Chicago’s Lake Geneva Yerkes Observatory was the largest of its type in the world, capable of revealing unseen corners of the universe. Beneath this behemoth is a crowd of scientists. One, with a shock of wild gray hair, stands out. Nearly a century later, a group of researchers...

Tiwanaku in Tiwanaku, Bolivia

January 5, 2024

Tiwanaku is located near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca on the Altiplano, at an altitude of 3,850 meters above sea level. It began as a small settlement which later flourished into a planned city between 400 and 900, and was the spiritual and political center of the Tiwanaku Culture. At its peak around the year 800, the city had a population of between 10,000 and 20,000 people. Many of the remains of this ancient adobe city have been built...

The Original Pronto Pup in Rockaway Beach,...

January 5, 2024

Rockaway Beach, Oregon doesn’t seem like the type of place with a notable culinary history. This small beachfront community is a popular but remote destination along the Oregon Coast. However, one staple of American cuisine can credibly claim Rockaway Beach as its birthplace: the corn dog. The origins of the corn dog are surprisingly murky, however, Rockaway Beach has a strong claim to the throne. This origin story begins with a glum hot dog salesman named George Boyington, who...

A Map of Which States People Want...

January 5, 2024

“Rather pleased with this map,” said Erin when she tweeted it on February 2, 2022. This is quite the understatement: Her map went viral almost immediately. Why? Because the map is an infographic that does a stellar job of answering its own question: Where are Americans born? The graph packs a lot of info, yet it is easy to decipher and can be read in a variety of ways. Its colorful combination of structure and variation is also pleasing...

The Hidden Worlds of Monopoly

January 5, 2024

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Monopoly, patented on December 31, 1935 by Charles B. Darrow, is not a game: It’s a world. The basic template: a multiplayer economics game, in which players roll two six-sided dice, move around the periphery of a square board, buy properties, collect rent when opponents land on their spaces, and buy up or trade for connected properties to build houses and hotels on. You win when everyone else goes bust. Played the...

5 of Our Favorite Podcast Episodes Celebrating...

January 5, 2024

Everywhere we look in the world, there’s something awe-inspiring, and we love exploring natural phenomena wherever they happen. Take a look back at some our favorite wild wonders through this collection of classic episodes of The Atlas Obscura Podcast. From a toxic Andean lake that is a window into the dawn of life to an exploration of mass extinctions and much more, these episodes are sure to inspire both awe and reflection. Relampago del Catatumbo In northwestern Venezuela, a...

El Palo Alto in Palo Alto, California

January 5, 2024

For centuries, the banks of San Francisquito Creek, in Northern California, were part of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe’s homeland. In 1769, explorer Gaspar de Portolá passed through, later establishing Spanish missions in the area. A road connecting the missions was built over the creek, which, in the mid-1800s became a highway. A railroad followed, and a town developed on one side of the tracks grew into a city. On the other side, the railroad tycoon Leland Stanford and his...

Bankya Residence in Bankya, Bulgaria

January 5, 2024

Communist leaders were known to enjoy high-end luxury, and Bulgaria’s Todor Zhivkov, the prime minister from 1962 to 1971, was no exception. One such opulent display of power was the Bankya Residence, which sported a sauna, indoor swimming pool, and landscaped park, among other features. Built in the 1970s as a sanatorial complex, the Residence took advantage of the thermal properties of Bankya, whose mineral waters and mountain air had made the town a health destination for centuries. But...

Wonder Is Everywhere: Silk Dress Secret, the...

January 5, 2024

Wonder is everywhere. That’s why, every other week, Atlas Obscura drags you down some of the rabbit holes we encounter as we search for our unusual stories. We highlight surprising finds, great writing, and inspiring stories from some of our favorite publications. Laughter Is Universal, but LOL Is Not by Amy Thorpe and Ravi Hiranand, Rest of World In person it’s easy to recognize laughter, no matter what language you speak. But online, different cultures express amusement differently, in...

Kilmuir Cemetery in Kilmuir, Scotland

January 4, 2024

Most visitors to the Kilmuir Cemetery are there for Flora MacDonald, and the Celtic cross on her memorial fittingly dominates the view. Dubbed the “Heroine of the Highlands,” she was responsible for assisting Bonnie Prince Charles in his escape from Scotland after the second Jacobite uprising failed. But dig deeper and you’ll find several other surprising stories resting within this cemetery. Behind the ruins of a chapel in the old section of the cemetery lies a knight with a...

Half a Billion Years Ago, These ‘Terror...

January 4, 2024

Take a ride on the way, way, way back machine to about 520 million years ago. The Cambrian Explosion—Earth’s biggest bang of biodiversity, when the variety of living things increased exponentially—was just wrapping up. Terrestrial plants and animals had not yet evolved so the land was still barren, but oceans teemed with life. Early arthropods, invertebrates with tough exoskeletons, were becoming fierce predators. Now meet the terror beasts who ate arthropods for breakfast (and lunch and dinner). Paleontologists working...

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