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Prepared Foods

Conger Bread at Griffin's Bakery

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.
Sweets

Butternut Squash Sweets at Nouh el-Haddad

Near the exit of an old souk, a small shop has been making gourd-based goodies for generations.
Drinks

Bath Spa Water

Make like Jane Austen and sip from the fountain in this famed Pump Room.
Sweets

Maska Bun and Irani Chai at New Irani

Behind a bare-bones concrete exterior and amid crumbling walls, a cafe serves what may be Ahmedabad's sweetest buns.
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Upcoming Experiences
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Cemetery Spirits & Stories: Iconography

Washington, D.C.
$38 per person
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Tour NYC’s Industrial Waterway

Brooklyn, New York
$40 per person
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Haunted History Cruise on the River

Chicago, Illinois
$33 per person
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Behind the Scenes at the City Reliquary

Brooklyn, New York
$25 per person
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Unearth Lost Towns with Archaeologists

Lothian, Maryland
$50 per person
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Plagues, Madness, and Medicine Walk

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
$33 per person
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The Abandoned Zoo Ruins of Griffith Park

Holllywood, Los Angeles, California
$28 per person
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Hollywood Miniature Magic

Los Angeles, California
$45 per person
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Seattle's Unrealized Central Park

Seattle, Washington
$35 per person
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extinct animals

Ice Age Australia Had Giant, Clawed, Swole Marsupials in Its Trees

Something like a koala, except the size of a rhino.
Isaac Schultz September 18, 2019
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bars

London's Subterranean Victorian Bathrooms Now House Bars and Cafés

People drink gin and coffee where gentlemen once relieved themselves.
Katherine Waters September 18, 2019
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railroads

Meet the Man at the Controls of the World’s Largest Steam Locomotive

After restoring the monster locomotive, Ed Dickens is hitting the rails.
Justin Franz September 18, 2019
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slavery

An Urban Amazon Community Sheds Light on Brazil's Forgotten Black History

Its residents, descendants of enslaved people, have been fighting to overcome invisibility.
Ignacio Amigo September 17, 2019
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carnivorous plants

The Triumphant Return of England's Insect-Eating, Bog-Loving, Rad-Looking Great Sundew Plant

A conservation group is hoping that as peat bogs spring back, so will carnivorous plants.
Jessica Leigh Hester September 17, 2019
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restaurants

In San Francisco, an East German Restaurant Is a Portal to the Past

Familiar foods such as "cold dog" offer former Eastern Bloc residents a taste of their youth.
Laura Kiniry September 17, 2019
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restaurants

When American Waitresses Were Labeled 'Women of Ill Repute'

The 400-year history of the restaurant industry's #MeToo moment.
Reina Gattuso September 16, 2019
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ruins

14 Lesser-Known Ancient Sites Worth Building a Trip Around

Check out Atlas Obscura readers' favorite archaeological wonders.
Eric Grundhauser September 16, 2019
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oceans

Found: A Fantastically Two-Toned Lobster Off the Coast of Maine

A little speckled, a little orange, a little mysterious.
Jessica Leigh Hester September 16, 2019
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