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

20 of the 60 sites closest to Atlas Obscura match.

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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   Laughing Squid laughingsquid.com English 2 trackers

   Laughing Squid

   a daily dose of unique and curious things

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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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   TIME time.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

   TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates

   Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.

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   Scientific American scientificamerican.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

   Scientific American

   Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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   Refinery29 refinery29.com English No trackers

   Refinery29 UK

   Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily

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   Aeon aeon.co English 1 tracker

   Aeon | a world of ideas

   Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.

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   Highsnobiety highsnobiety.com English 1 tracker

   Discover and Shop What's Next | Highsnobiety

   Highsnobiety is a global fashion and media brand passionate about product and the stories that shape them. Discover and shop what's next.

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    Polygon polygon.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More

    Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.

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    • Matomo

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    Stereogum stereogum.com English No trackers

    Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More

    The world's best music blog.

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    • GlobalSign
    • Google Fonts

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    Veranda veranda.com English No trackers

    VERANDA - Beautiful Home Decorating Ideas

    Home design and interior decorating is what VERANDA magazine is all about.

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    • Next.js
    • OneTrust

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    ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news

    Breaking science news and articles on global warming, extrasolar planets, stem cells, bird flu, autism, nanotechnology, dinosaurs, evolution -- the latest discoveries in astronomy, anthropology, biology, chemistry, climate & environment, computers, engineering, health & medicine, math, physics, psychology, technology, and more -- from the world's leading universities and research organizations.

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    The Intercept theintercept.com English 1 tracker

    The Intercept

    Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.

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    MakeUseOf makeuseof.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MUO - Technology, Simplified.

    MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.

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    Jason Kottke kottke.org English No trackers

    kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products

    Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.

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    Ninemsn nine.com.au Top 10K English 1 tracker

    nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world

    Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine

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    Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers

    Magazine on CSS, JavaScript, front-end, accessibility, UX and design. For developers, designers and front-end engineers.

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    TechCrunch techcrunch.com Top 1K English 2 trackers

    TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News

    TechCrunch | Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley

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    The New Republic newrepublic.com English 1 tracker

    The New Republic

    Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.

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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.