oriana's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

oriana

Oriana is a writer, editor, and hipstorian [sic] who is kind of obsessed with Brooklyn. She writes Brooklyn Spaces, a compendium of the borough's creative and underground culture, and her writing has appeared on Slate, Matador, CMJ, Brooklyn Based, Greenpointers, and more. Follow her at @orianabklyn.

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Places edited in Blythe, California

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Places edited in Cerne Abbas, England

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Places edited in Urubamba, Peru

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Places edited in Callanna, Australia

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Places added to Milan, Italy

Exeter, Rhode Island

Grave of Mercy Brown

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

JWOcker

Added by JWOcker

Playa de las Catedrales

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

serflac

Added by serflac

Salt Pans of Maras

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Dana Stabenow

Added by Dana Stabenow

Casa Grande, Arizona

Corona Satellite Calibration Targets

Concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland which were used to align spy satellites.

randalscott

Added by randalscott

Moray

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

leiris

Added by leiris

Spacecraft Cemetery

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Neptune's Grotto

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

michelle

Added by michelle

Brooklyn, New York

Rubulad

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Oliver Hong

Added by Oliver Hong

Callanna, Australia

Marree Man

Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.

serflac

Added by serflac

New Windsor, New York

Storm King Art Center

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

aboychuk

Added by aboychuk

Blythe, California

Blythe Intaglios

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Added by Doctor Don

Kitum Cave

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

Cerne Abbas, England

The Cerne Abbas Giant

Giant naked man on a hillside.

Genki

Nazca Lines

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.