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Exploration

From skis and boats to wind-driven sleds and teams of dogs, there's a lot of ways to travel the Antarctic.

Antarctic Explorations: Our Favorite Reads

From “windsleds” to sled dogs.

Roxanne Hoorn January 10, 2025

From Māori ancestors to Antarctic researchers, we explore stories of coming home.

Coming Home: Our Favorite Reads

Return trips, long treks, and smells that remind us of our roots.

Roxanne Hoorn January 3, 2025

During Hanal Pixán, Mérida's <em>Paseo de las Ánimas</em> (Walk of Souls) ends in a plaza lined by altars with food for dead loved ones.

What Atlas Obscura Staffers Ticked Off Their Bucket Lists This Year

From music festivals to marvelous mausoleums, here were some of our favorite places and experiences of 2024.

Sam O'Brien December 23, 2024

Get out of town to find transformative connections around the world.

Find Your Escape With Atlas Obscura’s Best Places to Travel in 2025

Leave the crowds behind with Where to Wander, our top destinations for local connections and transformative experiences.

Atlas Obscura November 12, 2024

Staten Island, New York

Matt Green NYC Walk Marker

This sign marks the start and end of Matt Green's nearly 10,000-mile quest to walk every block of every street in New York City.

Readers picked Mongolia in 2024. Where do you want to go next?

The 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards Are Now Open!

Share your dream vacation to be included in Where to Wander 2025.

Atlas Obscura September 9, 2024

Teleferika

The remains of a cable car used for bauxite mining after World War I hides in a coastal forest.

Luftskipsmasta (Airship Tower)

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's airship docked here before leading the first-ever flight over the North Pole.

McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Castle Rock

This uniquely shaped slab of volcanic rock has been used by generations of Antarctic explorers.

The first men to explore Antarctica tried to be tough by writting silly stories.

Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to Hide Dangerous Stunts

Eventually, even imagined mushroom fantasy lands could no longer mask the perils.

Allegra Rosenberg March 4, 2024

Model of the Matthew

Bristol, England

Model of the Matthew

A miniature version of the ship that took John Cabot from Bristol to Newfoundland.

Annapolis, Maryland

Jeannette Monument

A memorial to an ill-fated Arctic expedition pursued by the U.S. Navy.

A New and Correct Map of AMERICA (London, 1752).

For Hundreds of Years, People Thought California Was an Island

Dozens of maps show cartography's most persistent mistake.

Frank Jacobs February 16, 2024

The "Point Reyes", a vessel known locally as the Inverness Shipwreck in Tomales Bay north of San Francisco.

Wonder Is Everywhere: The Cosmic Dust Curator, a Secret Ancient Forest, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

April White January 19, 2024

Sudbury, Massachusetts

Goodnow Kayak

The Inuit kayak from Robert Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland is now on display at a local library.

Bristol, England

John Cabot's Whalebone

A 15th-century whalebone is tucked away in an unassuming corner of this medieval church.

The parasitic plant <em>Sapria himalayana</em>, also known as the jeweled corpse flower, was one of several rare species found in the Siang Valley by ATREE botanists.

The Biodiversity of India's Siang Valley Rediscovered After an Infamous Colonial Expedition

A red velvet worm, jeweled corpse flower, and other rare species were found while retracing the route of the bloody 1911-12 Abor Expedition.

Deepa Padmanaban December 12, 2023

A painting depicting an Order of Good Cheer banquet procession.

Before Thanksgiving, There Were the Feasts of 'The Order of the Good Cheer'

North America's first culinary social club was born in the 17th-century Canadian frontier.

Laura Kiniry November 21, 2023