Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we take listeners inside a hotel that some paranormal investigators call the most active haunted location in the world: The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. Ever since it inspired Stephen King to write...

Charles Addams studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1930s. In 2001, the building at 200 S. 36th Street was dedicated to him and now houses the University's Fine Arts Department. Outside the building, there are silhouettes of all eight Addams Family members, created by Lindsay Falck from the School of Design. Originally in the...

Model ship making is an art almost as old as that of making regular-sized ships, as these models were often used to convince admirals and other investors into building the real deal. While most of the large ships have sunk now, many of the models can still be found across the world. However, the art has not died out and several places in the world...

Located in the heart of Nessebar’s old town, the Hagia Sophia Church predates Istanbul’s famous Grand Mosque of the same name by almost a century. Also known as the Old Bishopric, the church is one of the oldest and most important Christian sites in the Balkans, showcasing the region’s rich Byzantine heritage. Nessebar’s Hagia Sophia Church was built...

During the silver boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s, the town of Silver Islet sprung up on the shores of Lake Superior in Canada. The town is still there, though now with only a handful of permanent residents. Tucked along a wooded trail, visitors will find the Silver Islet Cemetery—the final resting place of many silver miners and their families. ...

Located just outside the medieval coastal city of Piran, Slovenia, along the country’s Adriatic coastline, is the Sečovlje Saltpans Natural Park. The park is one of the last saltpans in the Mediterranean, where salt is harvested by hand using a method going back centuries. People and nature began co-creating these salt pans as early as the Roman...