But I see all these people waiting in long lines, and I could point them toġ0 minutes away, with its incredible anatomical wax figures and taxidermy. That said, the Uffizi in Florence is an incredible museum with incredible art.
I could come up with something amazing about the Mall of America. It’s all about what you get from a place. Turkmenistan would benefit from being slightly less opaque to the world.Īnd the most overrated place in the world is… I don’t trash-talk places. You have to present a dour, non-smiling photo. It’s got quirks if you smile in your visa photo, you won’t get approved. It’s got an autocratic government, but its people are yearning to make contact with the outside world, and it’s got a fledgling travel industry wanting to show off an astonishingly beautiful country. An astonishingly small number of people visit Turkmenistan-fewer than visit North Korea. If we’re looking at the world, I’d say Turkmenistan, where we led trips before the pandemic. Most people develop a kind of local’s blindness. The most underappreciated place in the world is… this answer’s a bit of a cheat, but the most underappreciated place in the world is wherever you live. There’s huge lore around it-stories of battling giants, connections with Ireland, musical connections. It’s got geometric basalt hexagonal columns.
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I haven’t scouted out the full thing of it, but there’s a Scottish cave called Fingal’s Cave. We’re trying to take a trip with our entire family. The place I’m most looking forward to visiting in 2022… is Scotland. Thuras shared his favorite things around the world with Penta. But there’s a level of uncertainty, between Covid and war, that’s keeping it fluent.” But Americans are ready, and they’re booking big, adventurous trips to places like Patagonia and India. “It’s a complicated business, because you’re in the real world. This year, “we’re taking more people around the world than ever,” he says, with more than 100 trips planned, from Armenian relics to tasting cuisine in Queens, New York. The enterprise ended up with its best-ever year in 2020, “and 2021 doubled revenue again,” Thuras says. While the pandemic presented “an existential crisis” for the business, with “zero” revenue for a short time, Atlas Obscura pivoted with major brand partnerships and new online businesses like course learning, Thuras said. “You can open to a random page and get a bit of joy and surprise and wonder.”
“Amazingly, the print products are the most popular things we do,” Thuras says. A 2021 followup, Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide, also topped bestseller lists. His first book, 2016’s Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders, sold more than a million copies, and remains the top-selling travel book of the last decade. A longtime New Yorker who had worked in film and television, Minneapolis-born Thuras grew up in the Midwest.
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