Atlas Obscura is a travel site that avoids the sunny beaches, “edgy” restaurants, and hip nightclubs that make up so much travel writing. Its founders, Dylan Thuras and Joshua Foer (author of the recent book about memory, Moonwalking with Einstein) have other sights in mind . . . . They aim for the surprising, the odd, and the unjustly unknown. In other words, they seek “places that expand our sense of what is possible and tell us something about ourselves, and about the wider world in which we live.”
For this installment of Get Your Blog on, Joshua and Dylan talk with Bill Brazell about how they developed their site and how they balance the wonders of crowd sourcing with the need to create a site that remains on-topic and accurate. They also cover the places they personally loved the most—as well as the ones they can’t wait to see. Check out the globe-trotting interview below:
