While “The Tale of the 12 Nasty Women,” as this narrative is commonly referred to, speaks of Baba Yaga’s own creation, the original doesn’t share any details of the women captured within the devil’s bag. These additions are my own. Still, the mere existence of this story is worth...
If you take a road trip to Regent, North Dakota, you’ll see the world’s largest tin family, among other sights, looming up along the highway. This is the Enchanted Highway, which was built by Gary Greff as a way to bring attention to his struggling hometown. ...
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A Visual Odyssey Through the Marvels of Life Venture into Nature's Unseen Realms with Our New BookAtlas Obscura: Wild LifeOrder Now The discovery of Adams’s grave was not enough to reroute Route 146, so archaeologists moved all 32 bodies from the burial ground and, after examining them at ...
[5] People Have Been Claiming to Own the Moon for Over 250 Years, article on the Atlas Obscura website by Jess Zimmerman, 2015. Lunar Real Estate at $20/Acre People have been claiming to "own the Moon" since at least 1756 when the emperor of Prussia granted the Moon to Aul Jurgens....
Pop Mech Pro Subscribe sign in Matt is a history, science, and travel writer who is always searching for the mysterious and hidden. He's written for Smithsonian Magazine, Washingtonian, Atlas Obscura, and Arlington Magazine. He calls Washington D.C. home and probably tells way too many cat...
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bessie-stringfield-motorcycle-queen https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=165444982&ref=acom Camacho, Maria A. “Bessie Stringfield.”Miami Herald20 February, 1993: B4. nl.newsbank.com ...
Ashley Stimpson is a freelance journalist who writes most often about science, conservation, and the outdoors. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, WIRED, Nat Geo, Atlas Obscura, and elsewhere. She lives in Columbia, Maryland, with her partner, their greyhound, and a very bad cat. This...
Other people have expressed similar sentiments (see thisYcombinatorthread, thoughts from writerKaren Marston, and anAtlas Obscuraarticle about remote work travel program Remote Year's rocky first year). My own experience teaching English abroad in France this past academic year — and having a lot...
With another National Park off the bucket list, the next day we opted to knock an Atlas Obscura item off the list – Pistachioland! I love pistachios and almost always have a bag of them in Waldo for travel days, but eating pistachio ice cream in front of the world’s largest pistachio...