Boulders Beach Penguin Sanctuary
Boulders Beach in Simon’s Town in South Africa, is a destination where sunbathers, tourists, and penguins share both the beach and parts of the town.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.co...
3 Feb 202213min
Monkey Island
Monkey Island, Cayo, Santigo is an island off the coast of Puerto Rico where more than 1500 imported monkeys have lived and been studied by researchers for decades. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www...
2 Feb 20229min
The Citadelle Laferriere
The Citadelle Laferriere in Haiti was built to ensure the island remained free after Haitians defeated French colonizers.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/citadelle-laferrier...
1 Feb 202212min
Bell Ringing of Old North Church
Boston’s Old North Church was cemented in American History by Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride. But now the ringers who play these bells in a centuries-old style are adding a twist.READ MORE IN THE ...
31 Jan 202212min
City Museum
In 1993 Bob Cassilly began to turn an old shoe factory into a massive interactive museum that now includes a plane fuselage, caves, and a ten-story slide. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobsc...
27 Jan 202214min
Gorgeous Grotesques with the Places Team
Jonathan Carey and Michelle Cassidy of the Atlas Places Team find beauty and fascination at the sites of warped and bizarre statues in Nuremberg, Germany and Urgnano, Italy.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: htt...
26 Jan 202211min
Musk Ox Farm
The Musk Ox Farm in Palmer, Alaska aims to domesticate a species that used to roam the earth at the same time as the sabretooth and wooly mammoth.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/p...
25 Jan 20228min
Chopin’s Heart
The Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, Poland is the final resting place of famed composer Frédéric Chopin’s heart - smuggled there by Chopin’s sister after his death. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https:/...
24 Jan 202215min
