Loading...Our world is full of many wonders, of human and natural origins. From Niagra Falls to the Great Pyramids of Giza, there are so many amazing places, cities, buildings, parks, monuments, relics, tombs, and much more to visit, all in a short lifetime. And many of us do try and visit as many of these wonders as possible, creating tourist destinations all around the world such as the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal. And while we focus on these large, well-known wonders, some never notice the smaller, just as interesting hidden wonders sprinkled around the globe. Atlas Obscura, a website that is meant for people who love interesting things about the world and different cultures, spawned a YouTube channel of the same name in 2009, run by Dylan Thuras, Atlas Obscura co-founder.
A majority of the channel’s videos, as well as the one’s the channel is most known for, are the ones in its series 100 Wonders, in which Dylan talks about one interesting lesser-known wonder each episode. These wonders can be anything from a single-handedly built cathedral to islands covered in snakes to, in the case of the video above, mystical disappearing rivers. The most viewed video on the channel, the video above, titled “Devil’s Kettle“, tells you all about the fascinating Brule River and how half of it seems to disappear into a black pit of death.
Devil’s Kettle is half of a waterfall in the middle of the Brule River in Minnesota that splits the river into two streams of water, one going down the waterfall and one simply disappearing into a large, black, cave-like hole. We can assume that the water ends up in the nearby Lake Superior, but the most interesting part of the whole thing is that we have no idea how it gets there. The whole story behind the Devil’s Kettle is explained in an interesting and entertaining way in the video above, and as with all of the Atlas Obscura videos, the topic itself is fascinating as well.
Luckily for us, Atlas Obscura is only 48 videos in its (presumably) 100 video long series, so we’ll be getting many more 100 Wonders videos in the weeks, and probably years, to come. It’s amazing how much awesomeness, to put it frankly, is out there in the world not being noticed by many people at all. Atlas Obscura does a great job of highlighting a small smidgen of those in weekly videos for us to consume and enjoy, and as much as they entertain us they also make us more informed about the many wonders in many cultures spread across the world today.