Atlas Obscura is an American-based online magazine and travel company that catalogs unusual and obscure travel destinations via user-generated content. It was founded in 2009 by author Joshua Foer and documentary filmmaker/author Dylan Thuras. The company's mission is to inspire wonder and curiosity about the incredible world we all share through best-in-class journalism about hidden places, incredible history, scientific marvels, and gastronomical wonders.

Atlas Obscura

Atlas Obscura is a media and entertainment company on a mission to inspire wonder and curiosity about the world. We uncover hidden places, incredible histories, scientific marvels, and gastronomical wonders via our site, app, video, social media, books and podcast. Atlas Obscura creates hundreds of unique global trips and local experiences every year, bringing our community with us to visit the world's most unusual places and try the world's most extraordinary foods.

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Thanks to The New York Times for featuring our Ecliptic Festival in your solar eclipse round up! Still planning your solar eclipse experience? Join us in Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas April 5-8th! #AOEcliptic 

Calling all #baseball fans! Spring training is right around the corner. So is the 2024 total solar eclipse—where will you be watching? 

Snag tickets to our celestial celebration of the total solar #eclipse, featuring four days and nights of music, science, art, and wonder. Day passes now available: https://lnkd.in/eZZEBXr9

#AOEcliptic

In another timeline, London would have had “flying” sky buses and New York’s Roosevelt Island Greek Revival Style buildings an architectural must-see. 

Such designs were indeed proposed but never made it past the planning stages. Until recently, we could only imagine how they may have looked: https://lnkd.in/d5VYVD7b

#newyork #newyorkcity #london #urbanplanning 

In this episode of the Atlas Obscura podcast, we go inside one of the busiest #airports on Earth with help from a #podcast friend, Andres O'Hara of The Sporkful Podcast WNYC, to discover the fate of all the #food confiscated by customs. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t get eaten.

Listen now: https://lnkd.in/eUb2Whx9

We’ll be at #SXSW2024 and we're excited to connect with current partners, prospective new clients, and Atlas Obscura fans alike! 

If you’re attending #SXSW and would like to chat – drop a note in the comments and someone from our Brand Partnerships team will get back to you.

In the meantime, checkout our list of 41 cool, hidden, and unusual things to do in #Austin: https://lnkd.in/dSZiZkHz

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