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Hillsboro, West Virginia

Cranberry Glades Botanical Area

West Virginia’s largest bog is home to rare carnivorous plants.
Copenhagen, Denmark

Viksø Helmets

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.
Gasquet, California

Darlingtonia Trail

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.
They don't look a day over 3,000.
museums

These Bronze Age Bog Beetles Look Like They Just Died Yesterday

Thanks to waterlogged ground, sturdy bodies, and a little luck.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 26, 2021
Birmingham, England

Moseley Bog

An ancient woodland that inspired a young J.R.R. Tolkien.
SPRUCE Experiment exterior.
Bovey, Minnesota

Marcell Experimental Forest

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.
Cut off by a road, this bog has flooded unnaturally.
forests

Bogs Lose Their Carbon-Chomping Powers When Roads Cut Through Them

In Canada, roads disrupt wetland water flow and multiply methane emissions, a new study finds.
Sabrina Imbler December 20, 2019
The great sundew is back on the scene.
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
Bog walk boardwalk.
Waskish, Minnesota

Big Bog State Recreation Area

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.
<em>Lobelia kauaiensis</em>, one of the species of lobelia native to Kanaele, alongside a friend.
islands

One of Hawaiʻi's Rarest Bogs Just Got an 11-Year Makeover

Step 1: Evict all the pigs.
Sabrina Imbler July 26, 2019
The view of one sculpture, “Cycles,” while inside of another, “Boora Convergence.”
art

How an Irish Bog Got a Second Life as a Sculpture Garden

At Lough Boora Discovery Park, visitors can meditate on the important role of these wetlands in Ireland.
Emily Toner June 6, 2019
Two of Lough Boora Discovery Park’s tallest sculptures memorialize peat’s role as fuel.
Tullamore, Ireland

Lough Boora Discovery Park

An Irish peat mine has become a stunning sculpture park.
Butter?
food

How Much of Ireland’s ‘Bog Butter’ Is Actually Buttery?

The chunks look and smell like rancid dairy, so scientists set out to confirm it.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 15, 2019
An aerial view of the bog, before its dismemberment.
islands

The End Is Nigh for Minnesota's Rogue Bog

Victory is within reach for the residents of Crow Wing County, who are tired of the four-acre behemoth.
Andrea Appleton June 19, 2018
Let's ...
nature

Your Best Ideas for Dealing With Minnesota's Rogue Bog

Atlas Obscura readers offer creative solutions to a floating menace.
Eric Grundhauser April 26, 2018