Vote in the poll below for the No. 6-seeded Somers Tuskers (New York) or the No. 15-seeded Goodrich Martians (Michigan) to advance to the Elite Eight. The Tuskers beat the Muckers and the Martians got ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. One hundred years ago, Baron Munchausen landed on Mars. In his adventures, ...

In the early 1900s, Martians were a hot topic in American popular culture. Are those canals on the red planet? How can we contact Martians? Up and coming actor/director/producer Orson Welles took ...

A Fullerton holiday tradition began as an incredibly bad movie. Not even that so-bad-it’s-good kind of thing. Just plain bad. Maybe it’s the spirit of Christmas, but decades later, one little ...