Vicki Arkoff's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Vicki Arkoff

Writer, traveler, eater, imbiber. Based in Los Angeles but constantly roaming the globe in search of interesting people, places and experiences. Published by DK Books, HarperCollins, Time Entertainment, Virgin Books, LA Times, NY Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Toronto Star, The Awesomer, Daily Variety, Day Spa Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, JustLuxe, MAD Magazine, Prevue, Pursuitist, Westjet Magazine, Where Guestbook, Where Traveller Magazine.

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London, England

Café in the Crypt

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Sam OBrien

Added by Sam OBrien

London, England

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Dylan

London, England

Stables Market

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Piedrasmagicas

Added by Piedrasmagicas

Horseshoe Bend

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Added by Facebook590576781

Street of the Little Motels

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

rickbbiking

Added by rickbbiking

Antelope Canyon

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

leiris

Added by leiris

Kayenta, Arizona

Burger King Navajo Code Talkers Display

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

Forrest Gump Point

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

CoolCrab

Added by CoolCrab

Quartzsite, Arizona

Reader's Oasis Books

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

SamWandersEarth

Added by SamWandersEarth

Newport, Rhode Island

The White Horse Tavern

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

e1savage

Added by e1savage

Vienna, Austria

Wiener Pestsäule (Vienna Plague Column)

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Vienna, Austria

Vienna Grand Ferris Wheel

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Budapest, Hungary

Mihály Kolodko's Mini Statues

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

katielou106

Added by katielou106

Budapest, Hungary

Holocaust Tree of Life Memorial

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

katielou106

Added by katielou106

Budapest, Hungary

Ronald Reagan Statue in Budapest

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

Added by libra5310

Budapest, Hungary

Michael Jackson Memorial Tree

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

SamM

Budapest, Hungary

Hospital in the Rock

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

entropy69

Added by entropy69

Budapest, Hungary

Memento Park

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Added by dgreno

Budapest, Hungary

Terror Háza

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

dzamonja

Added by dzamonja

Budapest, Hungary

Budapest Castle Hill Funicular

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

thelittleowl

Added by thelittleowl

Budapest, Hungary

Shoes on the Danube Promenade

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Added by alisakennedy11

Catacombes de Paris

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

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mütter Museum

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Added by mbison

Palm Springs, California

Tahquitz Creek Falls

At the western edge of Palm Springs, a rugged desert canyon trail leads to a waterfall at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains.

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