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The Essential Guide to Modern Pyramids

Darmon Richter December 18, 2013
outsider art

Architecture of Obsession: Eight Outsider Art Gardens

Matt Bergstrom December 6, 2013
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The Essential Guide to Soviet Playgrounds: Fun & Games in the USSR

Darmon Richter December 4, 2013
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Animal Islands: Seven Islands Ruled by Creatures Great and Small

Allison Meier November 18, 2013
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Essential Guide: Bioluminescence

Jeff Wagg October 18, 2013
Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor, Cambodia.
lost cities

Seven Lost Cities Swallowed Up By Time

The rediscovered ruins of civilizations past.
Edmund Richardson October 8, 2013
The museum entryway.
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The Essential Guide To Secret Museums

Prepare to marvel at these hidden museums considered unfit for public viewing.  
Darmon Richter September 27, 2013
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10 of the World's Most Disorienting Places

Try to keep your head about you.
Shannon O'Haire September 20, 2013
The Temple of Apollo, Delphi.
ancient cults

Nine Places To See the Ruins of Ancient Religious Cults

Ancient religion was strange and fierce.
Edmund Richardson September 6, 2013
disasters

Guide to Islands You Don't Want to Visit, Pt.2

Shannon O'Haire August 30, 2013
You're welcome.
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Atlas Obscura's Essential Guide to Building a Giant

Eric Grundhauser August 2, 2013
Sergeant Stubby at the Smithsonian
taxidermy

Essential Guide: Taxidermy Heroic Animals

Allison Meier June 28, 2013
Eden glowing at night. (markybon/Flickr)
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ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Farms in Unexpected Places

Leslie McIntyre June 21, 2013
Salem Witch House.
h. p. lovecraft

Living Lovecraft: 10 Real World Locations Behind the Horror

Cthulhu Fhtagn!
Eric Grundhauser June 18, 2013
Clapham north disused northern line express and shelter tunnels
subterranean

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Hidden Tunnels of Urban Infrastructure

John Reppion May 31, 2013
Teufelsberg, and Cold War–era listening station in Berlin.
abandoned

10 Ruins of the Pursuit of Super Science

Big ideas can leave big messes.
Eric Grundhauser May 17, 2013
cosmonauts

Atlas Obscura's Essential Guide to Cosmonautics

Allison Meier April 12, 2013
Shien and Zoetica blending in
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Introducing Our Friends: The Secret Guide to Alternative Beijing

Dylan Thuras January 29, 2013