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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The Last Bois Dentelle Trees

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

Dylan

New York, New York

Crabs of Cleopatra’s Needle

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

aboychuk

Added by aboychuk

North Miami Beach, Florida

The Cloisters of the Ancient Spanish Monastery

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

rebeccaclara

Added by rebeccaclara

Relampago del Catatumbo

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

Birdsville, Australia

The Birdsville Hotel

A historic hotel on the edge of the Australian outback.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Complex City

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

Added by Moe Cheezmo

Corrubbio, Italy

Byblos Art Hotel

Sleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern era.

Kergin

Added by Kergin

Talayuelas, Spain

El Cañón de Talayuelas

A fiery-red region of scooped out land still largely untouched by civilization, tourists or otherwise.

Piedrasmagicas

Added by Piedrasmagicas

Galway, Ireland

Brigit's Celtic Garden

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

Added by Mylesnag

Mexico City, Mexico

Museo de la Medicina Mexicana

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

Alicia Bones

Added by Alicia Bones

Runaway Bay, Jamaica

Firewater Pond

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Added by charmaine70

Stavanger, Norway

Stavanger Cathedral

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

Added by Vamperstein88

Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok's Ghost Tower: The Sathorn Unique

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

katiebaker4

Added by katiebaker4

Berlin, Germany

Vestiges of the Berlin Wall

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

katiebaker4

Added by katiebaker4

Neptune's Grotto

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

michelle

Added by michelle

Arles's Cryptoporticous

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

katiebaker4

Added by katiebaker4

Jules Lavirotte's 29 Avenue Rapp

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bridge on Neretva

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Sydney, Australia

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Facebook1513682660

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Orlando, Florida

Harry P. Leu Gardens

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

themandino

Added by themandino

Wallachia, Romania

Poenari Castle

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

serflac

Added by serflac

Bronze Bathers

The most playful of the life-sized statues that make up Singapore's "People of the River."

serflac

Added by serflac

Washington, Connecticut

Jason's Haunts

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

JWOcker

Added by JWOcker

Werfen, Austria

Eisriesenwelt

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

Alicia Bones

Added by Alicia Bones