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Fruits & Vegetables

Pumpkin Spice Jalapeño

If you're expecting a fall-flavored latte, you're in for a surprise.
Ritual & Medicinal

Mashed Potato Wrestling

These spud showdowns are highly-anticipated events at tuber-focused festivals in the United States.
Prepared Foods

Cherokee Bean Bread

Bakers delicately wrap this corn-and-bean dumpling in hickory leaves before boiling.
Prepared Foods

Isi Ewu

This spicy Nigerian stew is made from a goat's head and served with its "particulars."
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Upcoming Events
Jul 21
Brooklyn, New York

A Mid-Summer Oddities Flea Market: Exclusive VIP Presale Tickets

The Oddities Flea Market is returning for a mid-summer celebration, and Atlas Obscura has your ticket to skip the line and get in early!
Anatomical tools of yesteryear.
Jul 21
Philadelphia

Dissecting History at The Legacy Center

Spend an afternoon exploring the secretive and sometimes sordid world of 19th-century anatomical dissection at two historic Philadelphia medical schools.
No Lobbyists Beyond This Point.
Jul 21
Washington, D.C., United States

Washington's Most Infamous Lobbyist

Peer into the only-in-D.C. world of high-powered lobbyists with Audio Walks creator Olivier Ballou.
Gernman actress Hedwig Reicher portraying "Columbia" in front of the Treasury Building.
Jul 22
Washington, D.C., United States

Following in the Footsteps of Suffragists

Join author Rebecca Boggs Roberts as we retrace the path of the famed 1913 Suffragists March.
A photochrome postcard published by the Detroit Photographic Company.
Jul 22
Los Angeles, California

The Lost and Long-Gone Graveyards of Los Angeles

Join writer and Field Agent Hadley Meares as we tour the sites of L.A.'s forgotten burial grounds.
Diorama #8 "God's Universal Form."
Jul 22
Los Angeles, California

The Dioramas and Animatronics of the Bhagavad-gita Museum

Get ready to experience Krishna's transcendental manifestations.
New York Academy of Medicine Rare Book Room.
Jul 23
New York, New York

New York Academy of Medicine's Rare Book Room: Medieval Sex and Death

Discover the fascinating history of sex, medicine, and reproduction in the Medieval period through an after-hours exploration of the Rare Book Room's incredible collection.
Explorer's Club.
Jul 24
New York, New York

Excursion to the Explorers Club

Behind the closed doors of this legendary clubhouse awaits a treasure trove of artifacts collected over a century of expeditions to the far corners of the earth (and beyond)...
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How a Desert Mountain Telescope Revealed Jupiter's Odd New Moon
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planets

How a Desert Mountain Telescope Revealed Jupiter's Odd New Moon

Meet Valetudo, a moon that doesn't just go with the flow.
July 17, 2018
Found: 14,400-Year-Old Flatbread Remains That Predate Agriculture
Gastro Obscura
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agriculture

Found: 14,400-Year-Old Flatbread Remains That Predate Agriculture

The burned crumbs shed light on prehistoric hunter-gatherers’ diets.
July 16, 2018
The Dazzlingly Colorful Atlases That Brought the Night Sky Within Reach
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constellations

The Dazzlingly Colorful Atlases That Brought the Night Sky Within Reach

Detailed maps of the heavens weren't just for scholars.
July 16, 2018
A Lava Island Comes Into Being, For a Few Days
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volcanoes

A Lava Island Comes Into Being, For a Few Days

Hawaii's ongoing eruption created new land.
July 16, 2018
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