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 ...

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).

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to writer George Pendle about his Atlas Obscura article mapping a list of less well known "capital cities" — not the capitals of countries but of products, games and states ...

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 ...

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 ...