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Some people bake cakes for festive occasions; others put out chips and dip. Leonie Schreiber, a 33-year-old copywriter and designer...
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Standing 3,011 meters (9,878 feet) tall, Pico Basilé is the volcano king of Bioko Island. The summit of the shield...
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Long before the advent of its world-leading robotics, clockwork and wind-up automata called karakuri were all the rage in Japan from the...
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In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we take a trip to a hostel in Iceland to visit the...
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This Atlas Obscura themed crossword comes from independent crossword constructor Brendan Emmett Quigley. He has been a professional puzzlemaker since...
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Mound Key, an uninhabited island off the coast of southwest Florida, rises more than 30 feet above the shallow waters...
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Inside the chamber it is dark, and the flickers of torchlight play across the features of the men gathered. The...
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“A man with a knife will come to the school today.” It’s not exactly the greeting one expects upon showing...
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Dundee is Scotland’s fourth-largest city, and at one time it was one of the richest boroughs in all of Europe....
