Allison's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Allison

Allison is a former Senior Editor at Atlas Obscura, and their ongoing cemetery tour guide and aficionado. She works as a writer on art and overlooked history, and is an avid cemetery explorer. Originally from an Oklahoma oil town, she's now based in Brooklyn after living for a time in France. She likes monumental art installations of ephemeral beauty and minuscule cemeteries hidden in the city sprawl.

http://www.allisoncmeier.com

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Indianapolis, Indiana

Market Street Catacombs

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

Mark Casey

Added by Mark Casey

Nördlingen, Germany

Nordlingen

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

serflac

Added by serflac

Ramree, Myanmar (Burma)

Ramree Island

The island that holds the world-record for largest human massacre caused by animals.

Shannon Ohaire

Added by Shannon Ohaire

Park of the Sleepless (El Parque de los Desvelados)

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

serflac

Added by serflac

Province of Matera, Italy

The Village of Craco

An Italian hillside ghost town.

serflac

Added by serflac

Argelaguer, Spain

Parc Garrell

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

serflac

Added by serflac

Summerville, South Carolina

Dorchester, South Carolina's Abandoned Town

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

New York, New York

First Shearith Israel Graveyard

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

Added by joecrystal

Blood Falls

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

matthewwarrenlee

Added by matthewwarrenlee

Chandigarh, India

Nek Chand Saini's Rock Garden

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

Added by mbison

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Haystack Rock

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

SamM

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Old Trolley Cars

Four cars from the old system were once on display, but were removed in 2014.

aboychuk

Added by aboychuk

Anchorage, Alaska

Burial Spirit Houses

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

nbj914

Added by nbj914

San Francisco, California

Beach Chalet WPA Murals

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

Tre

Taree, Australia

Big Oyster

Homage to the local produce now serves as a car dealer.

San Francisco, California

Murphy Windmill

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Park Lawn Bowling Club

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

Tre

Chaudeyrolles, France

Burle Triangle

A snowy highland notorious for unexplained aircraft crashes is France's own Bermuda Triangle.

katiebaker4

Added by katiebaker4

Puerto Triunfo, Colombia

Hacienda Nápoles

Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.

Dylan

Charleston, South Carolina

Unitarian Church Cemetery

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Added by Cornchops

Al Farafrah, Egypt

White Desert

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

EmilyYaMei

Added by EmilyYaMei

Arènes de Lutèce

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

cultureandstuff

Added by cultureandstuff

Harghita County, Romania

Lacul Sfanta Ana

Romania's only crater lake with water as pure as if distilled.

Lilina

Added by Lilina

Vetschau, Germany

Fuhrlander Wind Turbine Laasow

Tallest - but not most powerful - wind turbine in the world.