Monsieur Mictlan's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Monsieur Mictlan

“Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being. He does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can’t allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.”

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Monsieur Mictlan's activity rankings

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Places visited in Oviedo, Spain

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Places edited in Brazil

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Places visited in Tlalnepantla, Mexico

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Nuremberg, Germany

Nuremberg Castle

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Rebekah Otto

Added by Rebekah Otto

London, England

Sir John Soane's Museum

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Dylan

London, England

Wellcome Collection & Library

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Rebekah Otto

Added by Rebekah Otto

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

The Room of Endangered and Extinct Species

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Allison

Added by Allison

Oxford, England

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Rebekah Otto

Added by Rebekah Otto

Buenos Aires, Argentina

La Manzana de las Luces

A gateway to a mysterious network of underground tunnels.

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Added by Facebook1211049274

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.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

San Andrés Cholula, Mexico

The Great Pyramid of Cholula

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Nantes' Natural History Museum

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

Added by Quentin

Fountain of the Fallen Angel

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Ötzi the Iceman

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

michelle

Added by michelle

London, England

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

St. Leonard's Church Basement Ossuary

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Added by Elielux

Guanajuato, Mexico

Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

Templo de Debod

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Added by Jacque

Chichen Itza, Mexico

Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chich'en Itza

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Tre

Père Lachaise Cemetery

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

Added by meelar

Catacombes de Paris

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

Schwangau, Germany

Neuschwanstein Castle

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

michelle

Added by michelle

São Paulo, Brazil

Butantan Snake Institute

A snake farm famous for its venemous varieties.

Josh