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Atlas Obscura's DIY Holiday Gift Guide

Why blow hundreds of dollars on gifts this season when you can create wonder right at home?
December 8, 2017
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wishlist

Wishlist: Magic Flames and the Die With the Most Sides

Weekly gift ideas from the staff of Atlas Obscura.
December 7, 2017
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literature

Small Talk With the Editor of One of the World's Tiniest Art Magazines

For almost four decades, Public Illumination Magazine has been packing a ton of absurdity into a little package.
December 6, 2017
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lenin

How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom

The fake news that took the former Soviet Union by storm.
December 5, 2017
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this week in

The Week In... The Microverse!

Mutant DNA, cuddling babies for healthy genes, and more news from the microscopic world.
December 1, 2017
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kickass women

The Rapid Rise and Spectacular Fall of London's Greatest Bonesetter

Sarah "Crazy Sally" Mapp led a highly unusual life.
November 28, 2017
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week in

The Week In... World Records!

All the record-breaking stories you may have missed over the past seven days.
November 24, 2017
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ants

Birds Rub Ants on Themselves, and No One Knows Exactly Why

It's called "anting," and it is weird.
November 21, 2017
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week in

The Week In... Robots!

All the robot stories you may have missed over the past seven days.
November 17, 2017
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dancing

The Lost Lingo of Depression-Era Taxi Dancers

In the 1920s and '30s, ticket-a-dance halls were full of "nickel-hoppers" and "fish."
November 15, 2017
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eiffel tower

The Sad Tale of the 'Flying Tailor'

Franz Reichelt's devotion to developing a parachute suit led to his dramatic death.
November 14, 2017
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retrofuturistic

Inside Connecticut's Secret Museum of Retro-Future Oddities

Robots, rockets, and UFOs are all hiding in a quaint New England barn.
November 13, 2017
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computers

The Gibberish That Sparked One of the Internet's Oldest Unsolved Mysteries

More than 20 years later, the true meaning of the Markovian Parallax Denigrate remains elusive.
November 10, 2017
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week in

The Week In... Reptiles!

All the reptile stories you may have missed over the past seven days.
November 10, 2017
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storms

The Long Legacy of Ireland's 'Night of the Big Wind'

Before the Great Famine, the country experienced a storm that left a lasting mark.
November 9, 2017
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awards

You Can't Be Knighted in the U.S., But You Can Be Named a Sagamore of the Wabash

Or a Kentucky Colonel. Or a Nebraska Admiral. Or a Commodore of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
November 8, 2017
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conspiracy theories

How the 'Rose Mary Stretch' Sold Watergate to the People

To believe the White House's story, Nixon's secretary would have had to have been a contortionist.
November 7, 2017
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ghost stories

The Ghost Story Behind a Bucolic Catholic Retreat Center

A brief, true history of West Virginia's Priest Field and "The Legend of the Wizard Clip."
November 7, 2017
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music

Remembering, With Fondness, the 'Worst Orchestra in the World'

In the 1970s, the Portsmouth Sinfonia became briefly famous for butchering classical music.
November 6, 2017
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monks

The Bamboo Flutes of Japan's 'Monks of Emptiness'

The basket-masked komusō monks used music to meditate and created a distinctive art form.
November 3, 2017
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lost

The Hanging Cage That Held an Infamous Québec Murderess

It had been all but forgotten for most of the 20th century.
November 2, 2017
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31 days of halloween

Why Do People Paint Skeletons on Live Horses?

It's about education, not scares.
October 27, 2017
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law

The U.S. Senate Has Been Using the Same Ivory Gavels for Over 200 Years

They only got a second one after Nixon broke the first.
October 26, 2017
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inventions

The Doctor Who Fends Off Magpie Attacks With Children's Party Favors

It's magpie swooping season in Australia, and at least one man is sick of living in fear.
October 23, 2017