Atlas Insolitus

Map of unusual spots, unconventional attractions, and places your mom definitely wouldn’t want you to go.

by Insolitus Anywhere




Let’s be honest: all those years your mother insisted you follow “the right path” probably didn’t include ending up in a Canadian bar with a mummified human toe bobbing in your cocktail, joining a chaotic orange battle in an Italian town square, or retracing the haunting legacy of the Spanish Inquisition. And yet—somehow—you’ve arrived here.


This map is a quiet archive of the strange. A curated invitation to explore the overlooked, the offbeat, the eyebrow-raising. Places that whisper stories you’re unlikely to find in any glossy brochure. From museums dedicated to death and criminal lore, to underground catacombs where silence wraps around bones, to remote villages you’d only visit to see a monument so ugly it borders on mythical—each location challenges the expected and rewards a fascination with the extraordinary.


So go ahead. Follow the weird path. Just keep your curiosity sharp, your humor intact—and maybe keep some of these stories to yourself at the next family dinner.