BrandyBacon's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

BrandyBacon

Traveler, adventure-seeker, adrenaline junkie, I do it all, I love it all, I want to see it all. Sometimes the most extra-ordinary experience is in the most ordinary of places.

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Places visited in Salem, Massachusetts

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Places added to Woonsocket, Rhode Island

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Places edited in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

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Places visited in Maine

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Places visited in Rhode Island

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Places visited in Newport, Rhode Island

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Places visited in Rockland, Maine

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Eastham, Massachusetts

Captain Edward Penniman House

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

bradshawbob19

Added by bradshawbob19

Brooklyn, New York

St. Anthony

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

kastoory

Added by kastoory

Brooklyn, New York

The Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

New York, New York

No. 44 Stuyvesant

This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.

Queens, New York

Vander Ende-Onderdonk House

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

Chris Watkins

Added by Chris Watkins

New York, New York

New York Cancer Hospital

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

daviddoochin

Added by daviddoochin

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn's Converted Pencil Factory

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

kastoory

Added by kastoory

Staten Island, New York

Willowbrook State School

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

nbj914

Added by nbj914

New York, New York

William J. Syms Operating Theatre

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

Leslie McIntyre

Added by Leslie McIntyre

New York, New York

The Webster Apartments

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

New York, New York

Sidewalk Subway Map

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

Oliver Hong

Added by Oliver Hong

Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.

OhMegan

Added by OhMegan

Providence, Rhode Island

John Hay Library

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

RogueIslandWriter

Added by RogueIslandWriter

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence Athenaeum

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Molly McBride Jacobson

Added by Molly McBride Jacobson

Fairfield, Maine

L.C. Bates Museum

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

Added by Mainebagpipes

Grand Derangement Memorial

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

GregBoggis

Added by GregBoggis

Weary Club

This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.

Added by Mazyck

Bucksport, Maine

Northeast Historic Film

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

Sarah Laskow

Added by Sarah Laskow

Bar Harbor, Maine

Dorr Museum of Natural History

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

Lauren J Young

Added by Lauren J Young

Brunswick, Maine

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

taotaoholmes

Added by taotaoholmes

Maine State Building

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

Added by wifeypapollo

Woodstock, Maine

The World's Largest Telephone

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

Artist's Bridge

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.

hana

World Traveler Signpost

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

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