23 Peculiar Places of 2023
The Atlas is home to all things peculiar and bizarre. While sometimes it seems like we’ve seen it all over our journey through more than 26,000 places, we are often surprised by the wondrous, strange sights shared by the intrepid explorers in our community. It’s these places and artifacts that make the Atlas so unique and help keep these curiosities alive.
In the small town of Shirley, Massachusetts, a local restaurant is home to a beast said to terrorize the local population during the colonial period. The Egopantis was said to have roamed the forest around Shirley until it was killed by Nathaniel Smith. The creature’s head and the musket allegedly used to take it down are displayed inside the restaurant. Across the Atlantic in Radebeul, Germany, is a museum filled with lies. The Lügenmuseum has dedicated itself to “telling lies in service of the truth.”
From a chicken that lays fortune-filled eggs to a kingdom dedicated to the love of used books, here are some of our weirdest, most wonderful places published in 2023.
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夜间献血模式“上线”N. Korean vice foreign minister heads to RussiaWhy Bernie Sanders is delighted about the UK election resultsMan shares evidence of what may be the world's weirdest office fridgeA global problem is preventing the wars in Ukraine and Gaza from coming to an end.Blurry, fleshySasha Obama's real name has freaked out the internetNK vows to expand insurance business despite intl. sanctionsWeather update for second Pak vs Ban second Test match day oneInstagram simplifies its navigation bar, replacing shopping tab with create tab
- ·Apple finally sends out payments for MacBook's butterfly keyboard settlement
- ·In praise of Justin Bieber's eccentric Instagrams
- ·`Trump can be breakthrough in denuke talks'
- ·Osaka wins comeback match at Brisbane International
- ·Google Gemini now allows AI
- ·Pandora got desperate enough that it lost $250 million on Ticketfly
- ·Unification Ministry under more cyber threats
- ·Nadal 'feeling good' but plays down Australia expectations
- ·Yoon approves labor minister's appointment
- ·Windows 10 Creators Update preview build teases new features
- ·Humaira sets eyes on belt wrestling next year
- ·Instagram simplifies its navigation bar, replacing shopping tab with create tab
- ·We Asked GPT Some Tech Questions, Can You Tell Which Answers Are Human?
- ·Man shares evidence of what may be the world's weirdest office fridge
- ·Nadal 'feeling good' but plays down Australia expectations
- ·True hero sneaks grandma's dog into hospital by disguising it as a baby
- ·21 College and University Museums
- ·Joshua knocks out Wallin
- ·PGA works to extend 'active and productive' Saudi merger talks
- ·农业科技特派员岳学军:精准对接“百千万”典型村
- ·Travel Back in Time and Uncover Old
- ·'We're not playing the time game': Trump
- ·Nadal 'feeling good' but plays down Australia expectations
- ·Pete Souza snags an obvious VIP to write the foreword to his book
- ·Ford can make your Mustang Mach
- ·Joshua says defeat by Wallin would leave him 'no future'
- ·Washington Mystics vs. Chicago Sky 2024 livestream: Watch live WNBA
- ·Why Bernie Sanders is delighted about the UK election results
- ·New Facebook app 'CatchUp' wants to bring back the phone call
- ·Google launches new AR tool to visualise social distancing rules
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- ·Instagram simplifies its navigation bar, replacing shopping tab with create tab
- ·Kellyanne Conway unleashes trolls on Twitter's head of site integrity
- ·Nadal 'feeling good' but plays down Australia expectations
- ·New image shows the North Star is changing. And it has spots.
- ·Senior NK diplomat to hold bilateral, trilateral talks with Russian, Chinese officials in Moscow