Atlas Obscura

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Atlas Obscura

Atlas Obscura atlasobscura.com

Wikidata: American online magazine and media company

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

Top 10K In English

02 · Privacy

What Atlas Obscura tracks

We can’t read atlasobscura.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

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   Mental Floss mentalfloss.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

   Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More

   Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.

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   Condé Nast Traveler cntraveler.com

   American travel magazine, first published 1987

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   Afar afar.com English 3 trackers

   AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides

   Discover digital travel stories, reviews, tips, news, guides, podcasts, and videos from the experts at AFAR Media, and subscribe to the newsletter or print magazine.

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   Lonely Planet lonelyplanet.com Top 10K

   publisher of guidebooks and other media related to travel

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   • Atlassian

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5. 05
   travelandleisure.com Top 10K

   travel magazine based in New York City, New York

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   Thrillist thrillist.com English 4 trackers

   Thrillist - Adventure is always around the corner.

   Thrillist is an online media website covering travel, experiences, and local neighborhoods. Thrillist was founded in 2004 by Ben Lerer and Adam Rich. Thrillist covers national and international travel, news, and, as of 2023, 18 cities across the United States.

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   Fodor's fodors.com

   publisher of travel guide books

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   Today I Found Out todayifoundout.com English 3 trackers

   Today I Found Out | Learn Interesting Facts Every Day

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   • Google Fonts

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   Smithsonian Magazine smithsonianmag.com Top 10K English

   American magazine

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    Eater eater.com English 3 trackers

    Eater

    A national site covering food and dining culture, with 23 city sites tracking local dining scenes across hundreds of maps.

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    Laughing Squid laughingsquid.com English 2 trackers

    Laughing Squid

    a daily dose of unique and curious things

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    outsideonline.com English 5 trackers

    Outside Magazine

    Outside covers travel, sports, gear, and fitness, as well as the personalities, the environment, and the style and culture of the outdoors.

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    National Geographic nationalgeographic.com Top 10K English No trackers

    National Geographic

    Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.

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    Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas

    Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.

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    Travelzoo travelzoo.com

    American travel media company with membership model

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    Slate slate.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts

    Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.

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    Digiday digiday.com English 3 trackers

    Digiday — The home of modern media and marketing

    Digiday is the leading voice of the media and marketing industry and how they are being disrupted by technology.

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    VICE vice.com Top 10K English 8 trackers

    VICE - VICE is the definitive guide to enlightening information.

    VICE is a global media channel focusing on investigative journalism and enlightening videos about everything from world news, travel, art, drugs, politics, sports, fashion, sex, and super cute animals.

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    New Atlas newatlas.com English 4 trackers

    New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News

    Extraordinary ideas and innovations moving the world forward.

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    Consequence consequence.net English 8 trackers

    Consequence | Music, Movie, TV and Pop Culture News for the Mainstream and Underground

    Consequence is your source for breaking news about music, film, and TV, plus daily reviews, exclusive interviews, original videos, and more.

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Atlas Obscura’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Atlas Obscura uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Atlas Obscura adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.