If you came to stay on the tiny island of Styrsö (steer-shuh) in the Gothenburg archipelago in the late 19th or early 20th century, there was a good chance...
Ramón Gómez de la Serna, a prominent figure in Madrid’s literary and artistic avant-garde in the 1920s and ’30s, created a unique artistic legacy through his study in...
Puglia, Italy
The summer has left the water deliciously warm. We paddle into sea caves as stunning as cathedrals
The huge Pizzomunno rock, in the Puglian town of Vieste, feels...
This is a transcript of an episode of Untold Earth, a series from Atlas Obscura in partnership with Nature and PBS Digital Studios, which explores the seeming impossibilities behind...
The heat hits me as soon as I open the door, the single panes of glass in the wall-width window drawing the late afternoon sunlight into my room. The...
This is the last surviving covered bridge in Lee County, Alabama. It was originally constructed in 1900 over Wacoochee Creek in Salem, Alabama. A storm in 2005 brought...
EUROPERobert Browning’s Florence apartmentThe Casa Guidi in central Florence dates from the 15th century and was divided into graceful, high-ceilinged apartments in the early...