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The Rongorongo tablets may be older than previously thought.
islands

Mysterious Writing System From Easter Island May Be Completely Unique

New radiocarbon dating reveals astonishing insights.
Colleen Kelly February 15, 2024
Singapore

The Singapore Stone

An undeciphered text is inscribed on a mysterious stone slab.
Seoul, South Korea

National Hangeul Museum

Celebrating the history of Hangul, the Korean writing system invented by King Sejong to improve his realm’s literacy.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (left), Aéropostale pilot and author of <em>The Little Prince</em>, stands in front of a plane in 1929.
deserts

The Daring Desert Pilots That Inspired ‘The Little Prince’

And the modern pilots retracing their pioneering airmail flights.
Cat Rainsford July 12, 2023
Sepp Kipfstuhl of the East Greenland Ice-Core Project examines a sample taken from where fast-moving and slow-moving ice meet in the Greenland Ice Sheet.
science

Wonder Is Everywhere: The New Tornado Alley, the Coolest Library in the World, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White June 23, 2023
manuscripts

Podcast: Manuscript Writing Cafe

Calling all procrastinators.
The Podcast Team March 15, 2023
Central Islip, New York

The Gallery of Shorthand

A museum that houses a collection of stenography machines plus dozens of books, photographs, and guides to shorthand languages from around the world.
Pen Hospital
Kolkata, India

Pen Hospital

For more than 70 years, this small shop has been a go-to for Kolkata's fountain pen connoisseurs and collectors.
Dr. Hepburn’s Former Residence.
Yokohama, Japan

Dr. Hepburn’s Former Residence

The man who created the first Japanese-English Dictionary.
The Writers Chair 5
Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland

The Writers Chair

Designed to inspire artists visiting the island.
Rock Hill's Poetree
Rock Hill, South Carolina

Rock Hill's Poetree

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.
The Press Room
New York, New York

The Press Room

Home to a dizzying array of letterpress blocks with a rich history.
Some recipes seem tasty, others somewhat frightening.
libraries

The Oldest Cookbooks From Libraries Around the World

Vintage recipes include flaming peacocks and kangaroo brains.
Anne Ewbank and Miranda Brown June 8, 2022
A replica of the Phaistos Disc, which has fascinated and flummoxed us for more than a century.
mystery

Exploring the Enduring Mystery of Crete's Phaistos Disc

A scholar of Aegean civilization considers the inscrutable meaning of the artifact—and its irresistible appeal.
Silvia Ferrara March 7, 2022
travel

Podcast: What Makes an Atlas Obscura Place?

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team November 17, 2021
(detail) The cover of the first paperback edition of <em>Dracula</em>, published in 1901, from the Rosenbach's collection.
vampires

Dracula Lives! (in Philadelphia)

The Rosenbach museum is home to Bram Stoker’s original notes on vampires and a growing collection of undead literature.
April White October 27, 2021
Imperial Printing and Arming Press
San Francisco, California

American Bookbinders Museum

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).
The Pfeiffer Home. The Hemingway's bedroom is the upper left one in front.
Piggott, Arkansas

Hemingway-Pfeiffer House

Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.