Travel

Destinations, hidden corners, and tools for finding them.

Places & wonders

• Atlas Obscura (Website) — a crowd-built gazetteer of 24,000+ curious and wondrous places, hidden ruins, roadside oddities, and strange local foods, each with the story of why it’s worth the detour.

Travel writing

• Into Far Lands (Website) — Kevin (from San Diego, a geologist) and Mary (from Wenzhou) on overland journeys from their base in Sichuan, now as a family of four: the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan highlands, Peru, and the Silk Roads through Xinjiang, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Stories sit alongside interactive maps — the Silk Roads from Europe to China, Paul’s journeys through the Roman Empire in Kingdoms Collide — plus the Atlas of Arda, hand-drawn maps of Tolkien’s world.

Maps

• Weird Museum Map (Map) — James Lees of James Visits Museums has pinned 869 weird and niche museums onto one world map — the British Lawnmower Museum, the Derwent Pencil Museum, a David Hasselhoff Museum, the World Famous Crochet Museum. Separate layers cover curiosity cabinets, mini museums, and cult/propaganda museums, and the collection layers let you filter by single obsession: Toilet, Lobster, Bigfoot, Clown, Match, Mushroom.