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The other was about to set off for a year of travel in Eastern Europe. One of us had recently spent two months driving all over the United States searching out tiny museums and eccentric outsider art projects. INTRODUCTION When we launched Atlas Obscura in 2009, our goal was to create a catalog of all the places, people, and things that inspire our sense of wonder. Now an underground amusement park, the mine produced table salt continuously from the 11th century until the 1930s. More than 350 feet below the surface, rowboats bob on a lake inside Romania’s Turda Salt Mine. 453ĭELAWARE / MARYLAND / NEW JERSEY NEW YORK / PENNSYLVANIA / WASHINGTON, DC WEST VIRGINIA 443ĪLABAMA / ARKANSAS / FLORIDA / GEORGIA KENTUCKY / LOUISIANA / MISSISSIPPI NORTH CAROLINA / SOUTH CAROLINA / TENNESSEE ILLINOIS / INDIANA / IOWA / MICHIGAN MINNESOTA / MISSOURI / OHIO / WISCONSIN HAITI / JAMAICA / MARTINIQUE / MONTSERRAT 426 BAHAMAS / BERMUDA / CAYMAN ISLANDS / CUBA 420 BELIZE / COSTA RICA / EL SALVADOR / GUATEMALA HONDURAS / NICARAGUA / PANAMA 296 ARIZONA / COLORADO / NEVADA / NEW MEXICOĬOLOMBIA / ECUADOR / PERU / URUGUAY VENEZUELA 276 CALIFORNIA / OREGON / WASHINGTONįour Corners and the Southwest. 267 NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR / NOVA SCOTIA ONTARIO / PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND / QUEBECĪlaska and Hawaii.

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES / NUNAVUT SASKATCHEWAN / YUKONĮastern Canada. MALAYSIA / MYANMAR / PHILIPPINES / SINGAPORE THAILAND / VIETNAMįIJI / MARSHALL ISLANDS / FEDERATED STATES OFĬANADA Western Canada. MICRONESIA / NAURU / PALAU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA 125 AFGHANISTAN / BANGLADESH / INDIA KAZAKHSTAN / KYRGYZSTAN / NEPAL PAKISTAN / SRI LANKA / TURKEY / TURKMENISTANĮast Asia. 220 MADAGASCAR / SEYCHELLES / SAINT HELENA, ASCENSION, AND TRISTAN DA CUNHA Islands of the Indian and South Atlantic Oceans. 114 IRAN / IRAQ / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / LEBANON OMAN / QATAR / SYRIA / UNITED ARAB EMIRATES YEMEN 213 ANGOLA / MALAWI / NAMIBIA / SOUTH AFRICAĪSIA The Middle East. 208 ETHIOPIA / KENYA / SOUTH SUDAN / TANZANIA 99 DENMARK / FINLAND / ICELAND / NORWAY / SWEDENĮast Africa. POLAND / ROMANIA / RUSSIA / SERBIA / SLOVAKIA UKRAINE REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO / REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 206īULGARIA / CROATIA / CZECH REPUBLIC / ESTONIAĬENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / CHAD / DEMOCRATIC 196ĪUSTRIA / BELGIUM / FRANCE / GERMANY / GREECEĬYPRUS / ITALY / NETHERLANDS / PORTUGAL / SPAINĮastern Europe. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.ĬONTENTS INTRODUCTION.

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