The 10 Best Places of 2018 - Atlas Obscura Lists

The 10 Best Places of 2018

The most extraordinary locations we discovered this year.

Atlas Obscura’s community of curious travelers and explorers contributed thousands of unique places to the database in 2018, and we now have over 15,200 strange and wondrous sites listed on our map—and counting. A few of those new discoveries stood out from the rest as being particularly surprising, beautiful, or simply delightful. Here are 10 favorite places from across the globe that AO readers and staff alike are itching to visit.