Sure, “partner with death” sounds a touch macabre, but when wrapping our minds around the persona who guides souls as they enter life and as they leave it, this last role is among the most profound of all, no? Like her chicken-legged hut, Baba Yaga’s persona is on the move, shap...
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“Our vision is really aligned with Marion’s,” says Roger Macdonald, director of the television archives at the Internet Archive. “It’s really bold and ambitious: universal access to all knowledge.” Marion’s son had contacted the Internet Archive when he was trying to find a home for...
My favourite book is ‘Atlas Obscura’. As the foreword of the book mentions it, this book is not for travellers, but for explorers.A piece of advice for all the wanderlust-ERS out there?Here’s a money-saving travel hack. When abroad, don’t exchange currency. Use ATM. You’ll save...
[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....
Matt Blitz 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 jokes. ...
Kentucky is home to several varieties of edible and delectable mushrooms. It's also home to an abandoned mushroom mine that some say is haunted.
- Want to visit votes on Atlas Obscura: 1,496 - Been here votes on Atlas Obscura: 171 - Rarity ratio: 8.7 Escape My Roomin New Orleans is such an elaborate escape room visitors might start to actually believe the storyline that draws them into the lore of the DeLaporte family's trials...
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–Louis Wain. 1923. Cat’s Tea Party (Louis Wain) Advancing cat (Louis Wain) A cat standing on its hind legs, formed by patterns in the “Early Greek” style. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939. Via:Illustration Chronicles,Bethlem,Atlas Obscura...