All posts tagged "Travel"
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28FeaturedNot Your Average Snow Day: 8 Wild Ways to Experience Winter Fun in Colorado
If Old Man Winter had an international headquarters, he’d build it in Colorado. As soon as the season’s first snow falls, the...
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Make Krampus Bread This Holiday Season
This article is adapted from the December 21, 2024, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. You...
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What Atlas Obscura Staffers Ticked Off Their Bucket Lists This Year
This year, I finally made it to Mexico for Day of the Dead. Not just any Day of the Dead either: It...
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Earth Defense Force 6 Is A Master Of Time Travel
Earth Defense Force 6 is the pinnacle of a series that many people view as being a fairly mindless shooter. Despite that,...
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Searching for ‘Dark Oxygen’ in One of the World’s Deepest Mines
Emil Ruff was about to travel into the center of the Earth. Wearing safety goggles, a protective suit, a helmet, and sturdy...
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Sanatorium – Wonder Museum Annex
Concept cafés are not uncommon in Japan, but Sanatorium is undoubtedly one of the strangest of them. As its name suggests, it’s...
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19FeaturedCoast to coast: snapshots of Cornwall’s new Tamar valley walk | Walking
A few minutes into a “guided” walk along the new Tamara Coast to Coast Way, which roughly traces the border of Cornwall...
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The John Lauder Memorial – Atlas Obscura
The Lauder Monument in the small hamlet of Glenbranter, Scotland, is a poignant tribute to a fallen soldier of World War I....
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22Featured‘I slept in ditches and dreamed of marauding raiders’: a wild walk on the Hadrian’s Wall path | Walking holidays
Hadrian’s Wall has perhaps the most single-minded personality of all the National Trails, tracing as it does the 84 miles from Bowness-on-Solway...
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Caerdroia of Gwydir Forest – Atlas Obscura
In Welsh tradition, a caerdroia is a turf maze typically imitating the Cretan labyrinth of Greek mythology. Translated as either a “Castle...
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27Featured‘You know it when you see it’: Accidentally Wes Anderson exhibition opens in London | Photography
Think of a Wes Anderson film and the muted greys and browns of a rain-soaked day in London are not the first...
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Kiemo Galerija (Courtyard Gallery) – Atlas Obscura
This courtyard has been transformed into an alternative art space. Set in a small space between homes in Kaunas, Kiemo Galerija (Courtyard Gallery)...
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30Featured‘A wild swimmer’s paradise’: the beach on top of a Yorkshire moor | United Kingdom holidays
Gaddings Dam was built as a mill pond in about 1833, when the Industrial Revolution positioned West Yorkshire and the north of...
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Our Favorite Holiday Cocktail Recipes and Stories
For many, the holidays are synonymous with a cup of liquid cheer, whether that’s in the form of a spiced, simmered mulled...
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23FeaturedMy mission? A two-day voyage along the Norfolk coast to deliver potatoes for a chip shop | Sailing holidays
The water glitters, rippled by a rising wind, and Victorious glides silently on three huge, maroon sails. We’re the only boat in...
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Moat Brae – Atlas Obscura
Moat Brae is a Georgian townhouse designed by the architect Walter Newall in Dumfries, Scotland. (Newall also oversaw the conversion of an old...
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26Featured‘The hike of a lifetime’ – a circuit of the Écrins national park in France | France holidays
I first learned about the Écrins national park in relation to a specific nature reserve within it. The réserve intégrale du Lauvitel...
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5 Unconventional Christmas Tree Stories
With Christmas around the corner, are you ready to defend your tree choices? Do you go artificial or for the real deal?...
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28Featured‘Skiing, hiking and ice-fishing from the door’: readers’ favourite Nordic winter trips | Scandinavia holidays
Fika on ice, Sweden We booked a brilliant skating experience in the Stockholm archipelago with True Nature Sweden. There are one-day guided...
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Our 24 Favorite New Places to Eat and Drink in 2024
One of our favorite parts of winding down the year at Atlas Obscura is reflecting on all of the remarkable places our...
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20Featured24 favourite travel finds of 2024 – from turtles in Turkey to a Highland pub crawl | Travel
Unspoilt beaches and a turtle rescue centre in Turkey Travelling down Turkey’s Turquoise Coast, my wife and I stumbled on İztuzu beach...
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Arab Baths of Jaén – Atlas Obscura
In the Islamic world, cleaning the body is a religious obligation that every Muslim must do before each of the five daily...
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