kirstybennetts's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

kirstybennetts

A full-time traveller with a passion for off the beaten path destinations and unusual things to see and do in better-known places. I love street art, Soviet-era mosaics and bus stops, abandoned places and concrete, Asian food and gin! Areas I spend most of my travel time: Asia, the Far East, and the New East (Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic states, and Central Asia).

https://www.kathmanduandbeyond.com/

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London, England

Twinings Tea Shop

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Molly McBride Jacobson

Added by Molly McBride Jacobson

Mae Klong, Thailand

Samut Songkhram Salt Farms

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."

makalu57

Added by makalu57

Taunggyi, Myanmar (Burma)

Floating Gardens of Inle Lake

A series of tiny artificial islands rich with produce bob atop the surface of the lake.

Kerry Wolfe

Added by Kerry Wolfe

Maribor, Slovenia

The Old Vine

The world's oldest grape-producing vine has survived four centuries of turmoil and even has its own anthem.

ahvenas

Added by ahvenas

Oudongk, Cambodia

Stupa of King Ang Duong

Built by King Norodom to honor his late father.

serflac

Added by serflac

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Al-Serkal Mosque

The largest mosque in Cambodia was built to unite the country's Muslim community but soon sparked division and controversy instead.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Foreign Correspondents Club

Originally a meeting place for foreign correspondents and war reporters, the FCC remains an atmospheric spot for sunset drinks in Phnom Penh.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Lee Harvey Oswald's Apartment in Minsk

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

hrnick

Added by hrnick

Smaliavicki rajon, Belarus

Mound of Glory

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

ahvenas

Added by ahvenas

National Library of Belarus

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

atimian

Added by atimian

Brest Hero-Fortress

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

ahvenas

Added by ahvenas

Gjirokaster, Albania

Gjirokaster Castle

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

Added by tobywatfa

Tirana, Albania

Tirana's Colorful Facade

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

serflac

Added by serflac

Elbasan County, Albania

Bunkers of Albania

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Allison

Added by Allison

Tirana, Albania

Pyramid of Tirana

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

SkareMedia

Added by SkareMedia

Colonia Del Sacramento, Uruguay

Plaza de Toros

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

jmcnally

Added by jmcnally

Montevideo, Uruguay

Palacio Salvo

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

Taquile Island

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

Added by laurajok

Gran Hotel Bolivar

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Pizarro's Tomb

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Paracas Candelabra

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

Added by kondorqueen

Unyun pruwinsya, Peru

Cotahuasi Canyon

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Qenqo Temple

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

serflac

Added by serflac

Wiñay Wayna

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

hcw2rp

Added by hcw2rp