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Atlas Obscura: Eccentric Guidebook to Unbeaten Paths & Global Curiosities - 99% Invisible

In 1910, a lawyer and Nobel Prize winner began a project to compile the world’s knowledge onto a series of 3 x 5 index cards. This repository, dubbed the Mundaneum, would be housed at the heart of a Utopian “world city” designed by famed architect Le Corbusier. Over the decades that followed, over 12 million

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The 10 Strangest Places on Earth

The 10 Strangest Places on Earth. The editors of the wildly popular Atlas Obscura pick 10 of the most curious places on the planet.

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National Cemetery

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We're wrong about directions and locations of many countries.

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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

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A Brief History of the ‘Danse Macabre’

A Brief History of the ‘Danse Macabre’

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It’s Not Easy to Map the 100 Largest Islands in the World

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