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Atlas Obscura Trivia Night

Fri, Jun 25
$7 per person
Gather your team and compete in a weekly contest of wits and educated-guessing.
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Tiny Worlds: Building Dioramas With Allis Markham

Starts Sat, Jun 26
$60 per person
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Atlas Obscura Presents: Odds & Ends w/ Siegfried Tieber

Sat, Jun 26
$30 per device
Join us for a night of virtual magic and interactive illusion with globally celebrated magician, Siegfried Tieber!
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The Meaning of "Life" With Carl Zimmer

Starts Mon, Jun 28
$100 per person
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The Table as Canvas: Designing a Bizarro Dinner Party With Jen Monroe

Starts Tue, Jun 29
$75 per person
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Nina Nightingale's Charm School: Spice Rack Incense

Tue, Jun 29
$15 per device
Join curiosity artist Nina Nightingale for an evening of crafting, history, and impolite discourse.
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Mysteries of the Common Houseplant

Wed, Jun 30
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Not Your Bubbe’s Brisket: Jewish Food Past, Present, and Future With Michael Twitty

Starts Wed, Jun 30
$100 per person
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wildlife & nature

Rewilding: Tracking Wolves in the Forests of Sweden

Sweden
Aug 23–29, 2021
From $3,100 USD
Explore Sweden’s boreal forests by day and hear the howling of wild wolves by night.
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Searching for Russia’s Northern Lights

Russia
Nov 22–28, 2021
From $3,830 USD
Bear witness to the ethereal glow of the Northern Lights, explore Arctic Russia, and see life in the Polar Circle up close.
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Turkmenistan and the Gates of Hell

Turkmenistan
Mar 18–27, 2022
From $3,475 USD
On this sweeping, eclectic adventure through Turkmenistan, marvel at the towering white-marble structures of Ashgabat, roam through barren deserts and a world-class canyon, and spend the night camped out beside the flaming Gates of Hell.
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history & culture

Pyramids and Petroglyphs of Sudan

Sudan
Mar 22–Apr 1, 2022
From $5,680 USD
Journey along the Nile, across the Sudanese desert, and discover the pyramids and archaeological treasures of ancient civilizations.
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Why a Japanese Delicacy Grows Near Old British Columbia Internment Camps

The vegetable is a reminder of the legacy of dispossession.
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Why Rustic Hamlets Host Some of Japan’s Most Striking Modern Architecture

Nostalgia, tourism, and a desire for relevance help drive the trend.
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Can the Māori Connection to Antarctica Help Safeguard the Continent’s Future?

Indigenous ties to the bottom of the world go back more than a millennium, and could point the way forward.
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The Poetry-Loving Cook Who Fed Detroit's Soul

With a 35-cent-meal restaurant and other charities, Mother Waddles was "a one-woman war on poverty."
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7 Places Outside the U.S. That Celebrate Resistance and Emancipation

The ills of the Atlantic slave trade permeated the globe. So does the idea of freedom.
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prisons

The Chef Fighting Mass Incarceration With Food

Kurt Evans is reducing recidivism, one pizza at a time.
Sheryl Nance-Nash June 17, 2021
murals

Podcast: Women of the Black Panther Mural

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
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animals

The Uncertain Future of Finland's Rare Freshwater Seals

The animals face threats from climate change, fishing, and a tourism boom, but their biggest advocate remains hopeful.
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