Welcome to One Perfect Monster — our 2021 One Perfect Shot bracket project. Stay tuned by bookmarking this page or follow along with #OnePerfectMonster on Twitter. Last year, we explored the realm of perfect TV show bingeability with the One…
Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press to Europe after tinkering with the Chinese invention towards the middle of the 15th-century. It would take several more decades before this revolutionary mechanism found its way to the British Isles. It wouldn’t be…
Surrounded by crumbling walls and a sprawling English park, the Rusovce Mansion is a decaying example of neoclassical architecture. There are records of a castle at this location dating back to 1266, but today visitors to the area will only see…
★ Directed by: #SamSeen Music by: #SamSeen, #4R3X Film review by William Hemingway Soooo…… it’s a head on a table. No wait, hang on, that makes it sound far more interesting and exciting than it actually is. It’s really just…
Just south of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, an impressive structure rises from the shores of the Pasquotank River. The large, silvery dome measures 20 stories tall and nearly a thousand feet wide. While it might look like a futuristic laboratory,…
It’s time for a dog’s-eye perspective with Stray, the feature debut of director Elizabeth Lo. The streets of Istanbul are filled with dogs thanks to Turkey’s rules regarding the stray population. They live alongside humans but aren’t really domesticated like…
Olympic Sculpture Park located in Seattle’s Belltown is not far from the famous Space Needle, and a short drive from the famous Pike’s Place Public Market. Sculpture Park is nine acres filled with monumental artworks, amazing views of Eliot Bay,…
The Atlas Obscura Podcast is finally here! Join me, Dylan Thuras, cofounder of Atlas Obscura, and our incredible team of reporters and editors, on a daily (Monday-Thursday) exploration and celebration of some of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange…
This month’s installment of The Unloved pays long overdue tribute to one of the most fearless filmmakers alive. Bruce LaBruce has been synonymous with boundary pushing and risk-taking for most of my lifetime, and it was high time to pay him tribute. His…
In 1909, archaeologists excavating the city of Pompeii uncovered a Roman villa that still contained painted frescoes on the walls of one of its rooms. The artwork depicted the mystery rites of a religious cult associated with Dionysus. Images included…