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I guess sending bonsai trees into space is a thing we could do. For the last nearly 20 years legos have been washing up in Cornwall. How about some 17th…

Start your week with some punk rock NYC. A brief history of homes built from spite. Ukrainian sci-fi writers have been predicting all this for years. The race for space…

Late 60’s Soviet space children’s book? yes thx. Very important dinosaur flight news. Can we drink the water on Mars? (spoiler alert: no) It’s the time of year for Japanese…

George Kourounis was the first person to ever explore inside “the door to hell.” Desert Realty (is pretty great). Our bears and gorillas are all hooked on Prozac. 50 Watts…

Great news: the entire library of the HMS Beagle is now online. Amphibians have been swimming the same way for 270 million years (showoffs). Technologies of heartbreak is real important…

Behold the new blackest of the black. Did we just find an 8,00 year old piece of brain? Did we just find a 200 year old bottle of seltzer water…

The lives of human real estate props. So, uh, huh: maybe smelling farts is good for you? (maybe a lot of things.) The extinct animals of the world are stuffed…

Climate change is probably giving you more kidney stones. Look, we all love Jacques Cousteau. Yesterday was Tesla’s birthday, Atlas Obscura has your Tesla tour all mapped out for you.…

Underground Australian cities are the new thing. Chinese folk kites are pretty neat too. We have entered the age of scanning baby mammoths and I couldn’t be more excited. Giant…

1920s Avant-garde Soviet Fashion? Yes thanks. Oh whoops, we found some more small pox (in vials). The confederate helicopters that almost were. Very large books. Galileo gives history the bird.…

Atlas Obscura brings you the very best in abandoned things. One of the last uncontacted tribes is no longer that. Let’s all celebrate a century of the fridge! Perhaps it’s…

Look, obviously you want jeans designed by a tiger or bear. Sometimes I need to link to things like the history of the Calvin peeing on things decal. Important news:…