Joseph Heathcott's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Joseph Heathcott

I am a writer, photographer, and educator based in New York, where I teach at The New School. My main areas of interest are in cities real and imagined, comparative urbanism, and visual-spatial studies. I use photography both as documentation (aide mémoir) and research method.

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Brussels, Belgium

The Atomium

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Dylan

Brussels, Belgium

The Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

stanestane

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Brussels, Belgium

Royal Greenhouses of Laeken

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

atimian

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Brussels, Belgium

Comic Strip Route

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

Vanessa

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Brussels, Belgium

Manneken Pis

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

stanestane

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Mont Saint-Michel, France

Mont Saint-Michel

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Added by IanWhalen

Angoulême, France

Murals of Angoulême

The vibrant buildings in the “capital of the comic strip” celebrate the art form that made it famous.

Added by markchateaudelacouronne

Versailles, France

The Osmothèque

Perfume museum and library.

Madiha Bataineh

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Maisons-Alfort, France

Musée Fragonard

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

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Petite Ceinture

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Allison

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Lasco Project at Palais de Tokyo

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

Delphine

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Parc Monceau

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

orchidsheart42

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Musée des Egouts (Paris Museum of Sewers)

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Dylan

Montmartre Cemetery

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Luke J Spencer

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Le Chat Noir Collection

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

satxwdavis

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Catacombes de Paris

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Père Lachaise Cemetery

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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Montparnasse Cemetery

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Allison

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Montmartre Funicular

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Beware of Words

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Added by rouseville

The Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Laetitia Barbier

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Pont de la Concorde

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Allison

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La Promenade Plantée

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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Foucault's Pendulum

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

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