Oglethorpe’s famous聽, sealed in 1940 and not to be opened until 8113, is featured in the new book version of 聽a popular site that is a聽friendly tour-guide to the world’s most curious and wondrous places.
Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, the book celebrates more than 700 of the strangest places in the world, reveling in the聽weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious.
Alumnus and Oglethorpe historian Paul Hudson ’72, as well as Weltner Library and University Communications staff, assisted the authors in their research on the Crypt.
Atlas Obscura is available for purchase on
