#Island Records

Author: Gary Suarez / Source: Forbes Iggy Azalea may have survived the summer at Island Records, but the autumn is another story. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, the pop-rapper announced that she and her record label had parted ways, just 3 months after dropping her most recent EP there.

Author: Oliver Milman / Source: Atlas Obscura Avery Island, a dome of salt fringed by marshes where Tabasco sauce has been made for the past 150 years, has been an outpost of stubborn consistency near the Louisiana coast. But the state is losing land to the seas at such a gallop that even its

Source: Atlas Obscura Just off the coast of Crete is a small, uninhabited island. Here, for more than half a century, some of the country’s sickest residents were sequestered away after having their land and property seized. Over the years, the island of Spinalonga has served as a place of…

Author: Cara Giaimo / Source: Atlas Obscura A few years ago, Google Street View expanded the boundaries implied by its its name and began adding entirely street-free places: remote outposts that most people will never get to visit. By clicking around, you can now explore a South Pole penguin

Author: Leigh Kunkel / Source: Atlas Obscura Angostura, the bitters packaged in the ubiquitous, yellow-topped bottles, can be found on nearly every bar in the world. Typically, a dash or two of the potent liquid is enough to add an earthy, sharp tang to any drink. But on Washington Island—a