Culture

How to Discover Your City's Secret Sites

The events director of Atlas Obscura shares her tips for finding a place’s hidden gems.
A watery cave in Queensland, Australia. darkday/Flickr

On The Job is a series of conversations with the people who keep neighborhoods running.

Megan Roberts’s job is to see cities through X-ray vision. She asks well-trod drags to give up their secrets, training her eyes to the periphery to track down niche bookstores, subterranean passageways, or galleries tucked away above apartments.