Updated on April 10, 2025
In 2009, Dylan Thuras and Joshua Foer founded Atlas Obscura as a passion project, aiming to create a collaborative, online form of a travel book. Since then, the project has morphed into a comprehensive digital atlas of the world’s most wondrous and unusual places, touting headlines such as “The enigmatic art of America’s secret societies” and “Why there’s no such thing as a Brooklyn accent.”