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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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Yamaboko Festival in Kyoto - Gion Festival

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Palacio Barolo

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

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Ramanujan Museum

One-room museum dedicated to India's most enigmatic mathematician.

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Gruta, Lithuania

Grūtas Park

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

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Altadena, California

The Bunny Museum

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

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Munich, Germany

Jeweled Skeleton of Saint Munditia

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Ulan-Ude, Russia

Giant Lenin Head of Ulan-Ude

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

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Kyiv Monastery of the Caves and Microminiature Museum

This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.

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Bialbero di Casorzo

A cherry tree growing atop a mulberry tree.

Brussels, Belgium

Mini-Europe

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

anhie

Mundaneum

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Hash, Marijuana and Hemp Museum

The history and future of cannabis.

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Nekoma, North Dakota

The Pyramid of North Dakota

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Los Angeles, California

Old Zoo Picnic Area

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

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Chicxulub, Mexico

Chicxulub Crater

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

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Offaly, Ireland

Leviathan of Parsonstown

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

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Williams Bay, Wisconsin

Yerkes Observatory

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Elephant Clock

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

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Mecca, California

International Banana Museum

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

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Southport, England

British Lawnmower Museum

This unique collection of lawnmowers includes vintage blueprints and automatic robot mowers.

anhie

Trolltunga

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

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Budapest, Hungary

Semmelweis Medical Museum

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

Dylan

Niigata Russian Village

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

Dresden, Germany

Slaughterhouse Five

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.