NEW YORK – An elf school in Iceland. A hospital for falcons in the Middle East. A museum in Kansas City, Missouri, for artwork made from hair. These are the types of attractions featured on the Atlas ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- An elf school in Iceland. A hospital for falcons in the Middle East. A museum in Independence, Missouri, for artwork made from hair. These are the types of attractions featured on the ...

As a young adult working full time, I often don’t have the time or the money to properly indulge my favorite hobby: traveling and exploring the wonders of the world. Luckily, the U.S. is full of its ...

This story was originally published May 6. A Lancaster city bookstore is one of a handful of Pennsylvania retailers on a list of “62 of the World’s Best Independent Bookstores,” posted on the Atlas ...

Wonder From Home, created by travel website Atlas Obscura, offers a ton of online experiences that can help combat boredom while stuck at home and temporarily take your mind off all the uncertainties ...

Popina Memorial Park in Stulac, Serbia, a destination visited on Atlas Obscura's guided trips to the Balkans. Photo Credit: Atlas Obscura Intrepid Travel is partnering with travel publication Atlas ...

From the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura comes a nature book like no other—a dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world’s most extraordinary wild species that takes you to ...

The new “Atlas Obscura” book offers a sampling of 700 of the website’s 10,000 curious attractions, from a pile of rocks in Butte, Montana, that makes bell-tone rings when struck with a hammer, to the ...

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NEW YORK – An elf school in Iceland. A hospital for falcons in the Middle East. A museum in Kansas City, Missouri, for artwork made from hair. These are the types of attractions featured on the Atlas ...