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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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Brighton, England

The Royal Pavilion

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Added by NathanRisinger

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston's Old Burying Grounds

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Salt Lake City, Utah

Summum Pyramid

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

San Francisco, California

Long Now Orrery

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Sevastopol, Crimea

Decommissioned Soviet Sub Base

In the land of the Light Brigade stands a testament to the Cold War.

Added by NathanRisinger

Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

Museo Del Ambar (Amber Museum)

Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber.

Added by bebeto

New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Added by NathanRisinger

Lluvia de Peces (Rain of Fish)

Fish raining from the sky are the cause of a yearly celebration in this small Honduran town.

Dylan

Lisbon, Portugal

Carmo Convent Ruins

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Évora, Portugal

Portugal's Chapel of Bones

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Dylan

Field, British Columbia

Yoho National Park

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Rebekah Otto

Added by Rebekah Otto

Osoyoos, British Columbia

The Spotted Lake (Kliluk)

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

Added by annie aronburg

Musée des Egouts (Paris Museum of Sewers)

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Dylan

London, England

London's Lilliputian Police Station

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Ulugh Beg Observatory

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Musée d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouvière

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

Added by mbison

Manna of St. Nicholas of Bari

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Toronto, Ontario

CN Tower Stairs

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

canuck

Added by canuck

Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Arecibo Observatory

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Ecublens, Switzerland

EPFL Learning Center

The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

New Orleans, Louisiana

Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Gasparilla Pirate Festival

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Tomb of Rufina Cambacérès

A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…

Dylan

Astoria, Oregon

The Astoria Column

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

canuck

Added by canuck