At Atlas Obscura, we’re obsessed with the unknown. Whether it’s a tale of ghostly murder that still induces chills two centuries later or a taxidermy marvel that seems to defy reason, we love a rabbit hole with no clear end in sight. This year, we followed a “huntress of lost treasure” in pursuit of one of the great wedding dresses of history, accompanied scientists looking to uncover the meaning behind thousand-mile-long hexagonal patterns etched into salt flats, and marveled at a gravitational hole lurking at the bottom of the Indian…
