Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. A stone building with blue trim, once used as a laboratory, now holds much of the ...

After serving in the first world war and studying medicine in Austria, Wilhelm Reich spent his early career as a favoured member of Freud's inner circle. Fascinated by the beneficial effects of orgasm ...

While many methods have been proposed for weather control, few have been quite as peculiar as the cloudbuster invented by Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich. This device manipulates Orgone Energy, a ...