Atlas Obscura
Of Murder Houses and Hell Gardens: A Top-Ten List for the Morbid Traveler
Travel broadens the mind... and it can also scare silly.
Of Murder Houses and Hell Gardens: A Top-Ten List for the Morbid Traveler
Travel broadens the mind...and can also scare it silly.
The Texas Desert Still Holds the Remains of a Partially-Built Supercollider
The Higgs-Boson might have been discovered in Texas, had the Desertron not been defunded in 1993.
Why Some Prey Animals Don’t Live in Fear of Being Eaten
Animal fears are a unique blend of instinct and experience.
Inside the Studio of a Halloween Sound Effects Artist
The Halloween sound effect album is a staple of the holiday almost as inextricably linked as trick-or-treating.
This Math Shows How Long It'd Take Vampires to Run Out of Human Blood to Drink
A surprisingly large number of academic studies—as in, more than one—have applied mathematical modeling to the concept of human-vampire co-existence.
Antarctica’s Weird and Wondrous Blood Falls Houses Tons of Ancient Microbes
Atlas Obscura ponders a subterranean lake and its surreal contents.
The 'Tunguska Event' Flattened 600 Square Miles of Forest
It was the biggest impact event in living memory, and we’re due for another in 200 years.
Turkmenistan’s 'Gates of Hell' Now Attracting Tourists, Spiders
The gas crater has been ablaze for over 40 years.
Some Book Nerds Made an Interactive Map of the Most Famous Road Trips in American Literature
It plots out the trips of everyone from Kerouac to Steinbeck to Cheryl Strayed.