Erin Schreiner's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Erin Schreiner

Erin Schreiner is a writer and itinerant bibliographer in New York City. Since 2008 she has worked with private and institutional collectors to describe, arrange, exhibit, and teach with their collections. Reach out on Twitter @bibliographes.

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Cape Coast, Ghana

Cape Coast Castle

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

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Assin South, Ghana

Kakum Canopy Walk

This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

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West Gonja, Ghana

Mole National Park

At Ghana's largest wildlife refuge you feel like you're right in the animals' backyard.

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Musée de Cluny

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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Plaster Citizens of Pompeii

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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The Brothels of Pompeii

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

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Thermopolia of Pompeii

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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Funicolare Centrale

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

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Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

Corpse Altar

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Ercolano, Italy

Herculaneum

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

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Garni Gorge

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

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Lusarat, Armenia

Khor Virap Monastery

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

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Yeghegnadzor, Armenia

Noravank Monastery

Nestled in a peaceful valley, this Armenian monastery may have been saved from Mongols thanks to the eyes of God.

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Geghard Monastery

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

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