atlas-obscura

atlas-obscura is a skill for Claude Code from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,204 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A place-search tool for Atlas Obscura, a guide to unusual and lesser-known destinations. It searches around a location and returns interesting places with descriptions and, when requested, images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover unusual places near a city or trip destination, search by map coordinates, and gather descriptions or images for an itinerary.
Why use it?
It helps find distinctive local attractions instead of only familiar landmarks or ordinary historical sites.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the travel-hacker plugin — 48 skills, 1 agent, 6 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to discover unusual places near a city or trip destination, search by map coordinates, and gather descriptions or images for an itinerary.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/atlas-obscura
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill atlas-obscura
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install travel-hacker, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 1 agent, 6 MCP servers.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,204 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00044 $0.01204
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00602
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00120

Measured 12d ago against content hash e66998e4b5a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atlas-obscura scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (ao.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/travel-hacking-toolkit/skills/atlas-obscura/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Atlas Obscura

Find genuinely interesting hidden gems near any destination via Atlas Obscura. Searches by coordinates, scores places for interestingness, and filters out mundane historical markers.

No API key needed. Uses the atlas-obscura-api npm scraper.

Prerequisites

Install dependencies (one time):

cd skills/atlas-obscura && npm install

City Coordinates Reference

Common cities for trip planning. Use these with the search commands.

City Lat Lng
New York 40.7128 -74.0060
London 51.5074 -0.1278
Paris 48.8566 2.3522
Tokyo 35.6762 139.6503
Bangkok 13.7563 100.5018
Rome 41.9028 12.4964
Barcelona 41.3874 2.1686
Istanbul 41.0082 28.9784
Mexico City 19.4326 -99.1332
Lisbon 38.7223 -9.1393
Seoul 37.5665 126.9780
Oslo 59.9139 10.7522
Copenhagen 55.6761 12.5683
Stockholm 59.3293 18.0686

Commands

All commands run from the repo root. Output is JSON. Image URLs are excluded by default to keep output lean. Add --images to any command when you need them (e.g. generating HTML pages).

Search Nearby (Filtered)

Finds places near coordinates, fetches full details, scores for interestingness, and filters out boring stuff. Slower (fetches each place) but gives you the good stuff.

node skills/atlas-obscura/ao.mjs search <lat> <lng>

Example:

node skills/atlas-obscura/ao.mjs search 35.6762 139.6503

Returns up to 20 places sorted by interest score. Each has full description, tags, and directions.

Timeout note: This makes ~20 HTTP requests (one per place). Allow 30-60 seconds.

Quick Search (Unfiltered)

Fast nearby search. Returns title, subtitle, coordinates, distance. No detail fetching or scoring.

node skills/atlas-obscura/ao.mjs quick <lat> <lng>

Search Unfiltered with Details

Same as filtered search but keeps everything, including boring plaques.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 147 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A e66998e4b5a8

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atlas-obscura is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (659 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,204 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.