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Atlas Obscura Gift Guide: 8 Presents for the Conspiracy Theorist

December 10, 2015

Atlas Obscura Gift Guide: 8 Out-There Presents For the Big Dreamer

December 10, 2015

Passports Were Once Considered Offensive—Perhaps They Still Are

December 9, 2015

Fleeting Wonders: A Bus-Sized Polar Bear, Powered By Activists

December 9, 2015

The Labyrinthine 'Underground Flower Garden' Caves Beneath Budapest

December 9, 2015

The Tribeca Fire Station That Got a Starring Role in Ghostbusters

December 9, 2015

FOUND: The Walls of a 12th-Century Castle, Buried Beneath a Prison

December 9, 2015

The Danish Anarchists Who Inspired SantaCon Could Not Have Imagined Its Bro-Hell Future

December 9, 2015

How Dreamcatchers Went from Sacred Tradition to the Malls of America

The Absurdly Complete History of Animals Parachuting From the Sky

December 9, 2015

Iceland's Yule Lads Are Like 13 Demented Santas and They Are Amazing

Before they were mischievous but friendly characters who came to lick your spoons, they were terrors.

December 9, 2015

Meet the Most Famous Michigander in Kazakhstan

December 8, 2015

How Candid Camera Spied On Muscovites At The Height Of The Cold War

December 8, 2015

LOST: Russian Spacecraft

December 8, 2015

Fleeting Wonders: All The Soviet Monuments In Poland

December 8, 2015

How Microsoft Created a Revolution in Soviet Computing

December 8, 2015

Soviet Scenesters Used X-Rays to Record Their Rock and Roll

December 8, 2015

Object of Intrigue: How a Red Army General Inspired ‘White’ Coca-Cola

December 8, 2015