How to make the Atlas Obscura books easier to use

Content warning: extreme wonkiness.

Jan 16, 2026

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I gushed about how much I love the Atlas Obscura books in this week’s Geography Wireframe post, and mentioned the incredibly minor issue that, for our purpose of finding particular “marvels” for particular countries (say, if you need a marvel for Thailand), the books can be a little hard to navigate.

I’ve made a fix for this, but it goes so far beyond “geographically nerdy” that it edges on actually being geographically dorky. So I’m making this a ~~dorks~~ subscribers-only post.

Here we go:

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