Earth's largest documented impact event happened in a remote corner of Siberia in 1908.

Unearthing the real-life places and events that inspired fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien.

We learn about a peculiar belief that was once widespread: the hope to be saved by a bell.

Visit an East African restaurant that serves up a small slice of Burundi in the Motor City.

A Wilmington garden invites kids to drop screens and rules and just play.

We journey through the ocean depths, meeting a different cephalopod at each stop along the way.

From a nuclear lake to a Kenyan post office, check out these places where there’s much more than meets the eye.

Just how many parents can a kid have? A collaboration with Freakonomics.

Ever wondered why our brains crave a good scare?

A sweet archive of almost biblical proportions can be found at the University of California, Riverside.

Learn more about orienteering, the sport that forces you to navigate with just old-fashioned maps and compasses—no GPS allowed.

Volunteers have been finding, excavating, removing, and sometimes even defusing bombs.

The one clock that sets them all.

Lacrosse can trace its origins back centuries to the Native American "Creator's Game."

In March 1895, a husband murdered his wife after accusing her of being replaced by an evil fairy.

This "victory garden" grew produce to help bolster dwindling food supplies during World War II.

Time to go back to school to appreciate some unusual campus traditions with the Altas Obscura Places Team.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

Check out the mycelium madness of a Pennsylvania town’s annual mushroom fest.

We go back in time to another era of travel and take a trip on the oldest commercial sailing vessel in the United States.

What does it take to run your abandoned town?

A history of Michigan's own personal Hell.

This abandoned Italian mansion, with its fair share of ghostly tales.

Hear the saga of an ambitious, government-backed homestead project that never quite lived up to its hype.