Matt Blitz

 

Matt Blitz is a history and travel writer. His work has been featured on CNN, Atlas Obscura, Curbed, Nickelodeon, and Today I Found Out. He also runs the Obscura Society DC and is a big fan of diners.

The Wonderland Club Hotel in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The Abandoned Settlements Inside National Parks

Once vibrant places, these relics now linger inside America's great natural treasures

The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes with the shadows of the Arctic midnight sunset, Kobuk Valley National Park.

Welcome to the Tundra: Kobuk Valley, One of America's Least-Visited National Parks

Dramatic weather and impassable terrain shouldn’t stop you from visiting this park

Currently, the only place the public can see Einstein's brain on display is at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia.

How Einstein's Brain Ended Up at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia

Sixty years after the great scientist's death, his gray matter is on display

Bob Baker in 2013.

The Curtain Hasn't Closed Quite Yet on America's Longest-Running Puppet Theater

Though its namesake died last year, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater is still hosting performances for audiences of all ages

How will you celebrate National Beer Day?

Where to Go to Visit the Oldest Breweries in America

To commemorate National Beer Day, throw back a cold one for history

The rooftop garden and colonnade at the Museum of Jurassic Technology.

Inside Los Angeles's Strangest Museum

Enter the dark and completely unique world of the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Journalists walk along the new Caminito del Rey in El Chorro-Alora, March 15, 2015.

"The World's Most Dangerous Trail" Reopens This Week

A once-deadly path is now a modern tourist attraction

John Wayne's dark-green 1971 Pontiac station wagon.

Make a Pilgrimage to the Brand New John Wayne Birthplace & Museum

Opening in April, a museum to match the movie star's legacy

This particularly charming street in Colmar, France looks straight out of a fairy tale.

The 11 Most Endearing Small Streets Worth Visiting

These tiny corridors around the world invite you in with their charm and surprising level of bustle

Los Angeles, United States

See Street Art Around the World via Google

Thousands of new images help preserve the art form

The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928

On Occasions Like This, I Envy the Dead: The St. Francis Dam Disaster

William Mulholland was the savior of Southern California until he wasn't

During the Civil War, a canal ran along what we now know of as the Mall

Meet the Madam on the Mall

Mary Ann Hall ran a successful brothel in D.C. for years, but it took a 1997 dig to tell the whole story

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