Rachel's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Rachel

In her off hours, she likes to travel, nosily explore every crevice and corner of whatever city she's in, and voraciously study the infinitely appealing subjects of plant identification, 18th and 19th century American history, plagues & diseases, mental illness, fringe groups, conspiracy theories, and crime & punishment. She collects books, pressed leaves, and cool things she finds on the ground. She carries an endless passion for the desert that is rivaled only by her adoration of the sea.

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Crestline, California

Mozumdar Temple

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

kcmick

Added by kcmick

San Angelo, Texas

Blood Lake: the O.C. Fisher Reservoir

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

woodtronic

Added by woodtronic

Lowell charter Township, Michigan

James C. Veen Observatory

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

Kiri the Unicorn

Added by Kiri the Unicorn

Los Angeles, California

The Last Bookstore

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

kcmick

Added by kcmick

Krong Battambang, Cambodia

Well of Shadows

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

michelle

Added by michelle

New Orleans, Louisiana

Louisiana’s Civil War Museum at Confederate Memorial Hall

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona Erotic Museum

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

HuanS

San Antonio de Pichincha, Ecuador

Middle of the World

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

Saint Maria Adelaide

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

Added by annaraffaella

Byron, California

Byron Hot Springs Hotel

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Added by Kristin Hugo

New Orleans, Louisiana

Napoleon House

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Comrie, Scotland

Cultybraggan WWII POW Camp

Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.

Added by tobywatfa

San Antonio de Pichincha, Ecuador

Intiñan Solar Museum

Home of the "true" equator.

Added by angzilla

Newton, Massachusetts

Echo Bridge

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Josh

Crestline, California

Heart Rock Falls

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

kcmick

Added by kcmick

Adare Manor

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

Shannon Ohaire

Added by Shannon Ohaire

Brooklyn, New York

Gowanus Batcave

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Hannah Frishberg

Added by Hannah Frishberg

Bridge Between Continents

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

williamsssej

Added by williamsssej

London, England

London's Original and All-Inspiring Coffee House

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

amyfreeborn

Added by amyfreeborn

The Sweating Cenotaph at the Archbasilica San Giovanni in Laterano

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

CadaverFormosus

Added by CadaverFormosus

Cortijo Jurado

This abandoned mansion has a window for every day of the year, and is a temple for ghost hunters.

Athens, Wisconsin

45 X 90 Geographical Marker

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

michelle

Added by michelle

Derbyshire, England

Blue Lagoon of Buxton

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

Le Droit Humain Masonic Lodge

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier