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By: Joshua Foer

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  • This extract from the print version of Atlas Obscura highlights five of the world’s oddest tourist attractions

    "When we launched the Atlas Obscura website in 2009, our goal was to create a catalogue of all the places, people and things that inspire our sense of wonder,” says co-founder Dylan Thomas. “We wanted a way of finding curious, out-of-the-way places that don’t often make it into traditional guidebooks – the kinds of destinations [...]

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