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Sarah Laskow

Former Atlas Obscura staff writer

2015
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Why Are These Cars Wearing Tutus? Ask The Male Ballerinas

FOUND: Ritual Gold Bongs from 2,400 Years Ago

abandoned hospitals

Here's What Happens When You Bring $30,000 of Video Gear to an Abandoned Asylum

FOUND: A Gun Linked to 7 Murders Was Sitting in a British Museum

FOUND: The Jawbones of a Never-Before-Seen Species of Early Human

The Spy Who Billed Me

Found: A Bomb That Forced the Biggest Evacuation in Cologne Since 1945

The Gilded Age's Only Female Tycoon Lived in Brooklyn To Avoid Taxes

brain collections

FOUND: 9 Mysterious, Well-Preserved Brains

space exploration

Found: The Most Luminous Galaxy Ever Seen

The Race to Build the World's Greatest Supercomputer

Found: Two Horses That Stood Outside Hitler's Chancellery

Lake Palmer: Nashville's Accidental Lake

rock formations

Found: Giant Boulders Delicately Balancing on Comet 67P

Mountains Aren't the Shape You Think

botanical illustration

FOUND: A Portrait That Just Might Be William Shakespeare

FOUND: A Very Large Rodent Named for James Bond, Ornithologist

The Ingenious System, Run by NASA, for Avoiding Trainwrecks

The 7 Strangest Retellings of India's Greatest Epic Tales

Found: A Colored Crayfish That Looks Fake But Is Totally Real

Meet the Residents of the Desert Ecocity That's Been Under Construction for 45 Years

Islamabad: Allergy Capital of the World

7 Maps That Only Could Have Been Made in the 20th Century

Found: Mysterious and Unnamed Sea Creatures