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Sunshine Lane in Brunswick, Australia

October 14, 2021

Sunshine lane is one of Melbourne’s best-kept secrets and lies in the northern suburb of Brunswick. Other laneways in Melbourne may be more common to tourists, however, Sunshine Lane really stands out from the rest. Some of Melbourne’s most renowned street artists have taken turns decorating the lane and the displays are constantly changing. The lane was established by Dean Sunshine, the owner of multiple factories surrounding the laneway. Currently, the lane contains some strange-looking balaclava men, a deer...

Casa Grande Neon Sign Park in...

October 14, 2021

The city of Casa Grande, named after the Hohokam ruins nearby, has a long and colorful history. Founded in 1879 during Arizona’s mining boom, the town transitioned to an agricultural community in the 1890s when the mining boom slowed. The change helped Casa Grande avoid the dismal fate of many other boom towns in the western U.S. The Casa Grande Neon Sign Park consists of vintage signs saved and collected from the surrounding area over the years, resulting in...

Podcast: Glaum Egg Ranch

October 14, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we bring you another Gastro Obscura classic: a ranch on the outskirts of Aptos, California features a magical machine that dispenses music, joy, and 18 of the freshest eggs in the land. Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide is a whirlwind tour of the world’s edible wonders. Order your copy today! Our podcast is an audio guide to...

Durham's Hidden Dinosaur in Durham, North Carolina

October 13, 2021

What could make a lovely walk through the forest on a paved path even better? A surprise dinosaur! Left over from a time when the museum was a little bit closer and Hurricane Fran hadn’t hit North Carolina, this long-necked concrete friend hides out just off the path and grins. The lone statue is made of fiberglass and measures 77 feet long. It was once part of the Museum Of Life & Science’s original Dinosaur Trail. When it was...

Musée d'art Moderne St Just D'Ardeche in...

October 13, 2021

The Musée d’art Moderne St Just D’Ardeche is a combination of museum, home, and private collection. Formed in 1980, it is the ever-growing collection of artist and retired winegrower Jean Mathon. As you exit the village, you cannot miss the house with fresco and sculptures on the outside. Inside you’ll find a large and eclectic collection of artifacts and artwork. Masks, sculptures, and junk from all over the world are mixed together with Mathon’s own works, which include paintings, sculptures, and collages....

Dorich House Museum in London, England

October 13, 2021

The Dorich House stands tall and unapologetically unique in the suburbia of southwest London, a monument to 1930s architecture, interior design, and art. The name of the Grade II listed building comes from its creators: Dora Gordine, a Russian sculptor, and her English husband Richard Hare, a scholar of Russian Art and literature. Gordine designed the house, which Hare financed as a working studio to showcase her sculptures. The building contains a plaster studio, double-height space, a studio facing...

Ikkoku Bridge Stone Marker for Lost Children...

October 13, 2021

In Japan, it’s quite common for shopping malls to come equipped with “lost child centers,” which serve as a sort of lost-and-found for children. A precursor to this feature existed even in the Edo period, the last age of the samurai, which lasted from 1603 to 1867. Back then, the district of Nihonbashi flourished as a castle town as well as a key point of traffic, where the famous Five Highways of Edo started. People came from all across...

Gustave Whitehead Fountain in Bridgeport, Connecticut

October 13, 2021

Though the Wright brothers are generally accepted as the first people to have achieved sustained powered flight, claims have been made that some managed to achieve the feat before them. Gustave Whitehead was one such inventor. Born in Germany in 1874, Whitehead immigrated to the United States as a young man and became involved with early aeronautics. After building and testing numerous gliders, kites, ornithopters, and model airplanes, Whitehead developed the No. 21— a full-sized engine-powered flying machine...

Tiki Murph in Milford, Delaware

October 13, 2021

In New Zealand, the Māori people have upheld a long tradition of creating wooden or stone carvings of deities, ancestors, or sacred animals. These carvings are known as tiki, which is also the name of the first man in Māori mythology. These carvings were often placed in and around sacred areas that corresponded to what the characters represented. The tradition of tiki would spread throughout the Pacific region over time, and has since become a somewhat wrongly-attributed staple of Hawaiian culture...

The Curious Case of Norway’s Disturbing Demon...

October 13, 2021

The demons are tiny, and legion. Scowling, tongue-flicking devils, no bigger than a thumbnail, and strange animals pile together in a tangle of dog legs and rabbit ears, each smaller than the next. The lines of the painting are so fine that the tiniest figures seem to pull the viewer into an infinite Satanic menagerie. The story of how the demonveggen, or demon wall, came to be is as strange and disturbing as the mural itself. It’s a tale...

Egyptian Museum of Turin in Turin,...

October 13, 2021

A towering pair of statues of the ferocious-looking lion-headed goddess Sekhmet stand at the entrance of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. The imposing statues seem to be both guarding and inviting the visitor to explore the archeological treasures within. The Egyptian Museum of Turin is one of the oldest collections of Ancient Egyptian artifacts in the world. It dates back to the 1750s, when King Emanuelle III instructed and funded the expedition of the famed Italian botanist Vitaliano Donati....

Podcast: Disgusting Food Museum

October 13, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we bring you another Gastro Obscura classic: Open your minds and steel your stomachs as we go to a food museum in Sweden that challenges what exactly makes something delicious… or disgusting. Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide is a whirlwind tour of the world’s edible wonders. Order your copy today! Our podcast is an audio guide to...

Behind the Scenes of the New Gastro...

October 12, 2021

This article is adapted from the October 9, 2021, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. In 2017, I joined Atlas Obscura. Gastro Obscura did not yet exist, and I was given the dreamy job of assembling a team and launching a quirky new food publication. Ever since, our crew of food nerds has tried to share the wonder and curiosity we feel when learning about the history, culture, and surprising stories behind how...

Haunted Houses Have Nothing on Lighthouses

October 12, 2021

Though they shared a name, it’s said the two lighthouse keepers, the towering Thomas Griffith and the middle-aged Thomas Howell, didn’t get along, and could empty pubs with one of their heated arguments. In the winter of 1800 to 1801, the two men were stuck on the most remote island in Wales, 20 miles from shore, operating Smalls Lighthouse. The brutal winter weather turned what should’ve been a month-long stay into a grueling, almost five-month exile. Then, four months...

The Obscuratorium in Port Richey, Florida

October 12, 2021

What do you do when your home starts overflowing with strange, curious, and possibly cursed objects? If you’re author Joshua Ginsberg of Tampa, you reach out to a used bookstore to create a mini-museum window display. During the research for his books, Ginsberg accumulated a trove of trinkets and memorabilia from the various places he visited throughout Florida and the southeastern United States. Not wanting to part with these items, but also not wanting them to continue to pile...

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