An interactive map on Atlas Obscura explores alternate capital cities — not of countries, but products, events and states of mind. George Pendle... Of Hyperbole And Geography: A Map Of The World's ...

Combining the wonderment and obscurity of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” with the high-quality production of National Geographic, Atlas Obscura is changing the way we travel and consume travel-related ...

If you'll excuse me, I now have plans for the next 14 hours thanks to Atlas Obscura's Guide to Literary Road Trips — an "obsessively detailed," annotated Google Map of the most epic U.S.-based road ...

Every travel guidebook has fun facts. “Atlas Obscura” (Workman Publishing, hardcover, $35), however, is more an encyclopedia of those fun facts (as well as some gruesome, bizarre and baffling facts).

For Atlas Obscura, the reader journey begins on the web and ends at The Great Wall of China, a Southern California mining cave, or even a pigeon museum in Oklahoma City. The locations are a few of the ...

Sometimes the world can feel a bit uniform: the same department stores in every shopping mall, the same fast food chains on every corner. The website Atlas Obscura will make you reconsider that sense ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook andTumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Circumnavigating the globe on foot sounds like a tall order—requiring ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. The search for the source of the Nile captivated civilizations for centuries ...

Laos, Paraguay, South Korea, Sierra Leon, Kazakhstan… Ohio? The Buckeye State might feel out of place in a list such as that one without context, but it fits right in according to Atlas Obscura, which ...

Greater Cincinnati has plenty of weird places listed on the Atlas Obscura website. The Mushroom House and Capitoline Wolf statue in Cincinnati are just a few strange spots. Northern Kentucky has Clive ...

To be named "world capital" of something is both a badge of honor, yet also something of a badge of shame, writer George Pendle tells NPR's Robert Siegel. It means your city revolves entirely around a ...