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Cross Plains, Wisconsin

Matz Farmstead Ruins

Picturesque and haunting, these 160-year-old stone ruins on top of a bluff are the only remains of a settler's legacy.
Itinerary

Gastro Obscura’s Guide to Sipping Wine in Catalonia

10 unexpected places wine lovers should visit in the picturesque, lesser-known regions of Catalonia, Spain
Boyds, Maryland

King Barn Dairy MOOseum

This heritage museum highlights the importance of the dairy cow as a vital part of rural Maryland's past, present, and future.
farms

Podcast: Fenway Victory Gardens

This "victory garden" grew produce to help bolster dwindling food supplies during World War II.
The Podcast Team September 11, 2023
Conway, South Carolina

L.W. Paul Living History Museum

Get some farm-to-table history at this living history museum, where you’ll learn what farm life was like a hundred years ago.
Don Angie's version of a wedge salad includes a creamy anchovy dressing and pepperoni fat-crisped breadcumbs.
farms

How Iceberg Won the Lettuce Wars

The wedge salad's dominance endures.
Diana Hubbell August 21, 2023
outsider art

Podcast: Knight’s Spider Web Farm

The helpers behind these one-of-a-kind art pieces have eight legs.
The Podcast Team July 27, 2023
Kendal, England

Kendal’s Smallest Windows

Two minuscule windows are tucked inside this medieval building.
Itinerary

The Gastro Obscura Guide to Asheville Area Eats

A food and drink mecca awaits you in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains.
One of the founders of Israel's Tractor Museum, the late Gideon Grosman, restores a small Murray plow.
engineering

How Farmers Are Preserving Israel’s Disappearing Agricultural Legacy—One Tractor At a Time

At the Tractor Museum, every machine has a story.
Gitit Ginat April 25, 2023
All illustrations: John Mata for Atlas Obscura
farms

Puzzle Monday: Meet Some Obscure Livestock Crossword

AO Puzzles March 20, 2023
Workum, Netherlands

It Lân Skip

A farm turned upside down.
Site of memorial plaque
Placerville, California

Wakamatsu Farm

This short-lived tea and silk farm is believed to be the first permanent Japanese settlement in North America.
Andrus, with his farmhands.
farms

The Duck Brigade Behind a Farmer's Plentiful Rice Harvest

Erik Andrus is bringing the Japanese art of aigamo to Vermont.
Jillian Dara January 19, 2023
Robert Burns Ellisland Farm
Holywood, Scotland

Robert Burns Ellisland Farm

Experience history from the stomping grounds of the great Scottish poet.
Jon Jandai cultivates and saves the seeds of rare and indigenous plants at the Pun Pun Center for Self Reliance.
farms

How Thailand's 'Happiness Farmer' Built an Oasis of Simple Living

A revolution in food-growing, home-building, and seed-saving is afoot outside Chiang Mai.
Sam Lin-Sommer November 23, 2022
museums

Podcast: The Thompson Ice House

People gather every winter at this Maine museum to take part in the age-old process of harvesting ice from a frozen pond.
Whether you call it shunka warak'in, the Rocky Mountain hyena or simply the beast, a mysterious canid preyed upon livestock in Montana in the late 1880s.
cryptozoology

Beware Montana’s Shunka Warak’in, the 'Rocky Mountain Hyena'

Is one of these crafty cryptids on display in a small museum?
J.W. Ocker October 19, 2022