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AllisonEng
Allison is interning at Atlas Obscura while studying Management at Pace University in Manhattan. She likes baking, reading, traveling, indiana jones, and puppies.
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Places I have been to
I have been to Atlas Film Studios, The Fountain of Youth, Mont Saint-Michel, Catacombes de Paris, Monaco National Museum: Automatons and Dolls of Yesteryear, The Protestants' graveyard, Memento Park, Silbury Hill, Whispering Gallery at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Pont de la Concorde, Père Lachaise Cemetery and The Brooklyn Navy Yard
Places I like
I like Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, Blood Falls and Quinta da Regaleira
Recent Activity
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April 16, 2011
AllisonEng
added The Brooklyn Navy Yard
The modern industrial park
The site of the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been used for hundreds of years by numerous groups to build and launch vessels into the East River. After the American Revolution merchant vessels were built... »
Intriguing Environs | Edited by AllisonEng and Nicholas Jackson
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March 12, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Korean Demilitarized Zone
Last frontier of the Cold War
On July 27, 1953, an Armistice was signed, in practice ending the bloody three year Korean War. As part of the agreement, a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was created, which has since become the most... »
Intriguing Environs, Ghost Towns | Edited by PaperTiger, Dylan and 3 others
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March 12, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Cliveden
Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors
It is known that visitors are treated royally at Cliveden. Guests have included every British monarch since George I as well as Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan, President... »
Odd Accommodations | Edited by Madiha Bataineh, Nicholas Jackson and 2 others
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March 12, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Wicker Man
Wicker sculpture that towers over the M5 motorway
If you're ever traveling past Bridgewater in Somerset, don't be surprised when you see a 12-meter-tall willow man to your west.
Built by the Somerset artist Serena De La Hay at a cost of 15,000... »
Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by Nicholas Jackson and AllisonEng
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March 12, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Hannah Dustin Memorial Statue
Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings
On March 16, 1697 a group of Abenaki Indians raided and attacked the Haverhill, Massachusetts home of Thomas and Hannah Dustin. Thomas and eight children escaped, but Hannah, neighbor Mary Neff,... »
Unusual Monuments | Edited by John Pittman, Annetta and others
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March 12, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Bibliotheca Wittockiana
Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries
Considered one of the most beautiful and prestigious binding collections in the world, Bibliotheca Wittockiana was created by a passionate booklover, Michel Wittock. The only institution of its... »
Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by Nicholas Jackson and AllisonEng
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March 12, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park
Blackfoot petroglyphs of southern Alberta which date back as far as 7000 B.C.
Near the Alberta/Montana border and just 44 km east of the small town of Milk River is Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park.
The park boasts having over 50 petroglyphs created by the Blackfoot... »
Outsider Art, Lost Tribes, Incredible Ruins | Edited by canuck, Dylan and others
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March 12, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Toro Muerto
Petroglyph field in Peru created by many different ancient cultures
Up a ravine off the Majes Valley in Peru rests a huge field of silar volcanic stone boulders.
Most of the ancient high cultures of Peru carved petroglyphs into the rock at this site. Why so... »
Natural History, Rites and Rituals, Incredible Ruins | Edited by A Facebook user, Dylan and others
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March 12, 2011
AllisonEng
added Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Ghost Trees of Pescadero Point
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Phra Nang Cave
A phallic shrine to a princess goddess in Krabi, Thailand
On the edge of Phra Nang Beach in the Krabi Province of Thailand, a cave has been dedicated to a princess goddess named Phra Nang.
According to legend, Phra Nang was an Indian princess who was... »
Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Bswanson, Dylan and others
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.
Despite Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh's will, which clearly stated his wish to be cremated, the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum was inaugurated in August of in 1975. Since then, it has housed the... »
Memento Mori, Mummies | Edited by Bswanson, Dylan and others
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Columbia Icefield
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the La Isla de las Munecas
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls
There is a disturbing circular nature to the story of "La Isla de la Munecas," or the Island of the Dolls.
Over fifty years ago, Don Julian Santana left his wife and child and moved onto an... »
Anomalous Islands, Outsider Art, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan, wythe and 2 others
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Karl Junker House
An intricate and amazing house built by schizophrenic architect Karl Junker
Karl Junker had both an advantage and disadvantage when it came to building his great vision. While he was a trained architect, by his thirties, he was also deeply schizophrenic. Never... »
Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan, Henry and 2 others
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Starkenberger Beer Resort
Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer
For beer lovers this is one of only a few places in the world where they can truly, literally, immerse themselves in beer. At the Austrian Starkenberger resort they offer a complete beer-centered... »
Odd Accommodations | Edited by Dylan, AllisonEng and others
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Littledean Jail and Museum of Crime
A 200 year old prison housing a questionably tasteful crime museum
William Blackburn was the leading prison architect of his time. As a 32 year old he won first prize in a contest sponsored by the Commissioners for Penitentiary Houses for new prison designs.... »
Museums and Collections, Crime and Punishment | Edited by brdgmn1, Dylan and 2 others
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Evergreen Aviation Museum
Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose
The Spruce Goose, or H-4 Hercules—also called the flying lumberyard—only took flight once. It lifted some 70 feet off the water and flew for around a mile. That was to be the wooden behemoth's... »
Strange Science, Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech | Edited by chuck, Dylan and 2 others
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the The Skeletons of Waldsassen Basillica
Skeletons dressed in extravagant 1700s royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German Basilica
In the Waldsassen Basillica in Waldsassen, Germany, the halls of the church are lined with an unusual sort of decoration.
Known as the "Holy Bodies," they are the skeletons of Christian... »
Ossuaries | Edited by wythe, Dylan and others
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the North Korea's International Friendship Exhibition Hall
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the National Library of Israel's Hidden "Stalag" Collection
Hidden out of public view in the National Library of Israel is a collection of "Stalag's," 1960s Nazi themed porno paperbacks written and consumed by Israelis
Part of the mission of the National Library of Israel is to secure copies of all material published in Israel.
Normally this is not a problem, and the collection of the National Library of... »
Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan and AllisonEng
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Chocolate Hills
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the World's largest seated bronze outdoor Buddha
Lantau Island, Hong Kong, China
The seated Buddha at Lantau, also called the Tien Tan Buddha, is 34 meters (110 feet) tall, weighs 250 metric tons and is approached by visitors from the nearby Po Lin Monastery by climbing 268... »
Giant Buddhas | Edited by spinkk, Dylan and 2 others
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the 'Eye of God' rapid, Chattooga River
A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable to entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists
The Chattooga River is one of the oldest river beds in North America, and is one of the last free-flowing major rivers in the south east United States. This particular feature is the last rapid... »
Watery Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by Winoria, Dylan and others
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March 5, 2011
AllisonEng
updated the Kristiansand Kanonmuseum
