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The author's mother found the letters of a missing man.
banks

Letters Hidden in My Family’s Attic Reveal a 1910s Bank Con in Key West

The con artist was either a very unlucky man or a trickster who got away with it all.
Asia London Palomba January 3, 2025
Wilmot, Australia

Wilmot Novelty Letterbox Trail

In Tasmania's "Valley of Views," dozens of novelty mailboxes add a quirky element to the landscape.
The three main pyramids at Giza, Egypt, together with subsidiary pyramids and the remains of other structures at the Giza pyramid complex.
mummies

Wonder Is Everywhere: New Finds, Viking Whale Hunters, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White May 24, 2024
trees

Podcast: Tree Week Love Letters

Can trees write back?
The Podcast Team April 23, 2024
You don't have to be an ultra-athlete to recreate this gold rush history.
gold rush

Follow the Footsteps of an Incredible Mailman From the Gold Rush Era

Hikers recreate Snowshoe Thompson's 100-mile route through the mountains by walking, running, and even skiing.
Erika Mailman April 11, 2024
Balderdash takes on Mad Libs in our contest of word game supremacy.
games

Atlas Obscura’s Ultimate Word Game Tournament

From Password to Mad Libs to Wordle, we pit our favorite lexical pastimes head to head. 
Adrienne Raphel March 29, 2024
hotels

Podcast: Mr. Kaor’s Letters

For the last 40 years, Hotel Spaander in the Dutch fishing village of Volendam received almost daily letters from a mysterious man in Japan.
The Podcast Team March 6, 2024
Camp Century trench construction in 1960. Caption reads "Metal arch forms being emplaced over undercut trench."
science

Wonder Is Everywhere: Viking Hoaxes, a Secret Nuclear Ice Base, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White November 22, 2023
Arrrrr!
sounds

The ‘Crispy R’ and Why R Is the Weirdest Letter

I made a bunch of linguists listen to this social media phenomenon and tell me what’s going on.
Dan Nosowitz November 2, 2023
The use of the letter x as a mathematical unknown is a relatively modern convention. Algebra has been around for a lot longer.
mathematics

Why Is 'X' Such a Big Deal?

From Twitter's rebranding to algebra, this single letter has an uncommon amount of...X factor. A historian of mathematics gets to the root of it.
Peter Schumer August 4, 2023
One of the 2.000 mummified ram heads found in the Temple of Ramses II, in the historical city of Abydos, Egypt.
cemeteries

Wonder Is Everywhere: 2,000 Ram Skulls, a Cold War Mystery, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White April 14, 2023
national parks

Podcast: The Dedan Kimathi Post Office Tree

A strangler fig played a pivotal communication role for Kenya's freedom fighters.
The Podcast Team March 8, 2023
Letterbox Village
Wellington, New Zealand

Letterbox Village

Leave a trinket at this artistic collection of mailboxes.
nature

Thoughtful, Surprising Last-Minute Gifts

A gift guide from the Atlas Obscura team.
Atlas Obscura December 2, 2022
objects of intrigue

Was This Letter Written by Sherlock Holmes?

If you are “Playing the Game,” the answer is elementary.
April White September 15, 2022
politics

Podcast: The Loneliest Post Office

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team September 6, 2022
Goudier Island, off the northwest coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. is home to what one stamp collector from England described in 1946 as “the loneliest post office in the world.”
politics

Letters from the Loneliest Post Office in the World

A story of Antarctic adventure seekers, stamp collectors, politics, and penguins.
Andrew Avery May 5, 2022
Saya Kubota, the creator of Missing Post Office.
Mitoyo, Japan

Missing Post Office

A unique art exhibit home to letters addressed to those unable to receive them.