The Mississippi River has been providing water, transportation, and blues songs to us for hundreds of years. The river was essential in building trade, agriculture, and settlements in the United States. And it continues...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/21/The-Mississippi-River-The-Backbone-of-America/Still sizing up your summer travel plans? Well, if you’re looking to enjoy some of the most fascinating locations ever created by Mother Nature, then you might want to check out one of these gorgeous and strange na...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/08/7-Amazing-Natural-Landmarks/A confluence is a place where two (or more) bo... ...and Yangtze Rivers in China. Link -via The World Geography
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/26/10-incredible-confluences-around-the-world/Derek Watkins created a fun interactive map showing population density across the world. You can use a sliding bar to change the display. The above screenshot shows the parts of the world with more than five people per s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/16/interactive-population-density-map/Atlas Obscura has announced the date of the third annual Obscura Day, which will be Saturday, April 28th. Obscura Day is a day to go exploring: to take a trip through the hidden wonders of the world, to see special place...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/27/obscura-day-2012/Redditor Matt872000 writes "Me, in Korea, and a friend, in Canada, just made an Earth Sandwich." Very good! It'll have a nice crunchy texture. Of course, the contents are off center and will slide out with the first...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/22/earth-sandwich/The NCAA basketball tournament brackets are out, and 68 schools will battle to see who is the best college basketball team in the nation (cough*Kentucky*cough). Some of the schools are state universities, others have nam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/12/where-is-that-tournament-bound-school-2/While your teachers may have spread lies about planetary plates shifting and causing the continents to separate, Dan Meth is brave enough to share the truth with us. Pangaea occurred when the continents were cuddling...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/22/the-true-story-behind-pangaeas-seperation/(vimeo link) What would America look like if various secession movements of the past had been successful? The company Urban Mapping created maps that follow 30 such movements, and what the results may have been. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/secessionist-maps/Atlas Obscura took many readers on trips around the world without leaving their computers in 2011. They've compiled a list of their most popular places -to read about, if not to travel to- over the past year. Some you re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/02/atlas-obscuras-ten-most-popular-places-for-2011/
