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61.

India’s “plantain man” has traveled widely to collect unusual banana varieties (atlasobscura.com)

220 points

5 years ago

62.

A Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing (atlasobscura.com)

220 points

10 years ago

63.

The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India (atlasobscura.com)

219 points

8 years ago

64.

The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver (atlasobscura.com)

217 points

8 years ago

65.

Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs (atlasobscura.com)

211 points

9 years ago

66.

Tiny, Perfect Staircases Made by French Woodworkers (atlasobscura.com)

210 points

8 years ago

67.

The New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

209 points

6 years ago

68.

A little-known airline has linked Cairo and Tel Aviv for decades (atlasobscura.com)

205 points

6 years ago

69.

Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

203 points

5 years ago

70.

The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (2019) (atlasobscura.com)

200 points

5 years ago

71.

Bent horizon photos (atlasobscura.com)

198 points

9 years ago

72.

A 'scam manual' written to help immigrants not become victims (atlasobscura.com)

196 points

2 years ago

73.

A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots (atlasobscura.com)

196 points

8 years ago

74.

Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101 (atlasobscura.com)

195 points

4 years ago

75.

A Vast, 430-Year-Old World Map (atlasobscura.com)

195 points

8 years ago

76.

When India kicked out Coca-Cola, local sodas thrived (2019) (atlasobscura.com)

194 points

6 years ago

77.

The Delightful Perversity of Québec's Catholic Swear Words (atlasobscura.com)

193 points

10 years ago

78.

The Lost Sign Language of Sawmill Workers (atlasobscura.com)

191 points

10 years ago

79.

Slovenia’s beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art (atlasobscura.com)

191 points

3 years ago

80.

The once-extinct aurochs may soon roam Europe again (atlasobscura.com)

190 points

CapitalistCartr

4 years ago

81.

How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s (atlasobscura.com)

187 points

5 years ago

82.

Why People from Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Manchesterians (atlasobscura.com)

186 points

9 years ago

83.

How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll (atlasobscura.com)

186 points

6 years ago

84.

Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' from Beautiful Wagons (atlasobscura.com)

185 points

8 years ago

85.

Found: A Colossal Statue of Ramses II Hiding Under a Cairo Street (atlasobscura.com)

185 points

9 years ago

86.

A Soccer Con Man Who Couldn't Play the Game (atlasobscura.com)

183 points

10 years ago

87.

C.S. Lewis's Greatest Fiction: Telling Kids They’d Like Turkish Delight (2015) (atlasobscura.com)

180 points

9 years ago

88.

Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro (atlasobscura.com)

177 points

2 years ago

89.

How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian (atlasobscura.com)

175 points

7 years ago

90.

The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH' (atlasobscura.com)

175 points

10 years ago