Cara Giaimo's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Cara Giaimo

former staff writer, forever fan // @cjgiaimo // caragiaimo (at) gmail (dot) com

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Places visited in Jonesport, Maine

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Places added to Manteo, North Carolina

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Places added to Outer Hebrides, Scotland

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Places edited in Nye County, Nevada

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Places added to Quito, Ecuador

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Are Prey Animals Scared All The Time?

October 28, 2015

Fleeting Wonders: Sheep So Gassy They Brought Down a Plane

October 28, 2015

Are There Still Real Skeletons In Disneyland's "Pirates of the Caribbean"?

October 26, 2015

fleeting wonders

Fleeting Wonders: Crashed Millennium Falcon For Sale

October 23, 2015

underground week

The Duke Who Loved Tunnels So Much He Was Immortalized As A Literary Badger

October 23, 2015

underground week

How A Fungus And A Tree Translated Underground Hugeness To Mainstream Success

October 21, 2015

underground week

Fleeting Wonders: Police Thwart A Chinese Ghost Wedding

October 20, 2015

underground week

How Jellyfish Exhibits Became Underwater Dance Clubs

October 19, 2015

ancient technology

Before Farming, Writing, Or The Wheel, Humans Began Perfecting The Skyscraper

October 16, 2015

When The Western World Ran on Guano

October 14, 2015

Fleeting Wonders: 27,581 Pumpkins Colonize a Town in Illinois

October 12, 2015

From WWII to Syria, How Seed Vaults Weather Wars

October 12, 2015

Tiny Star Wars Chocolates, I Ate Your Father

October 9, 2015

The Past And Future Of Magnetic Poetry, The Populist Product That Began With A Sneeze

October 8, 2015

When The Pope Made 10 Days Disappear

October 6, 2015

How Modern Cartographers Marry Math and Art

October 5, 2015

Fleeting Wonders: the 2015 Sea Turtle Swimsuit Collection

October 2, 2015

America's Crappy Plumbers, Bloomin' Awful Florists, and Dirty Cleaning Companies

September 30, 2015

The Maps That Helped The Citizens Of A 'Locked Country' See The World

September 28, 2015

thomas jefferson

Moses Was Tripping, And Other Scientific Explanations For Biblical Miracles

September 25, 2015

How a Concentration Camp Survivor and an American Huckster Created the Magic Crystals of Miracle-Gro

September 23, 2015

Polywater, the Soviet Scientific Secret That Made the World Gulp

September 21, 2015

Fleeting Wonders: The Reliably Miraculous Blood of St. Januarius

September 21, 2015

fleeting wonders

Fleeting Wonders: The 25th Ig Nobel Prizes, Celebrating Scientific Silliness

September 18, 2015