Atlas Obscura is an online magazine and travel company that catalogs unusual and obscure travel destinations via user-generated content. The editorial articles comprise a mixture of features and news articles on topics including history, science, and food, in addition to travel and exploration, as well as hosting a collaborative, definitive guide to the world's most obscure places. Author Joshua Foer and documentary filmmaker and author Dylan Thuras founded it in 2009 and it is based in Brooklyn, New York.