Mark Casey's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Mark Casey

Writer, diner, and travel daydreamer. A beverage and finger food enthusiast. A beer speculator and bourbon expert. Fond of warm spaces and familiar faces. A fan of open air, ambient light, midnight and moonlight. Wants sea breeze, fresh fruit and solid earth. Fantasizes about living in a place without windowpanes. Interested in history that I'm unaware of and places no one's been. An avid Atlas Obscura fan, writer, contributor and reader. Not least, a noted after-dinner raconteur.

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Savannah, Georgia

Grave of Corinne Elliot Lawton

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

Ghoster

Added by Ghoster

Borodino Panorama

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Liverpool, England

Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse

This aging storage facility is the world's largest brick warehouse.

Added by bibsa888

Florence, South Carolina

Mars Bluff Crater

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Old Calton Cemetery

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

The Glen

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

Chongqing, China

Three Natural Bridges

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.

Added by lioness1041

Chicago, Illinois

Inez Clarke Monument

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Juniper Windsong

Added by Juniper Windsong

Winslow, Arizona

Two Guns

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

Oliver Hong

Added by Oliver Hong

St. Augustine, Florida

Old Spanish Trail Zero Milestone

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

bibliotech

Added by bibliotech

Cawker City, Kansas

World's Largest Ball of Twine

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

kcmick

Added by kcmick

Liberal, Kansas

Dorothy's House and Land of Oz

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

kcmick

Added by kcmick

Whittier, Alaska

Buckner Building

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

tennesseewalker

Added by tennesseewalker

Carrabelle, Florida

World's Smallest Police Station

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

weyrcat

Added by weyrcat

Malibu, California

California Coastal Records Project

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

kcmick

Added by kcmick

Meroe Pyramids

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

Rapid City, South Dakota

Thunderhead Underground Falls

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

kcmick

Added by kcmick

Kings Park, New York

Abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

Jenna Mistretta

Added by Jenna Mistretta

Julian, California

Eagle and High Peak Mine

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Added by noctivagant

Cameron, North Carolina

Cameron Barnstormer Murals

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

dklesch

Added by dklesch

Skibbereen, Ireland

Irish Sky Garden

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

Leslie, Georgia

Georgia Rural Telephone Museum

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

missjessiqueen

Added by missjessiqueen

Fort Collins, Colorado

Swetsville Zoo

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

browne86

Added by browne86

Hachikyo

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

Oliver Hong

Added by Oliver Hong