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Tre
Tre grew up in a micro-sized town in the California wine country. After exploring as much as she could on her bicycle and in the back of her parents VW van, true wanderlust kicked in at the age of 12 when she went on a school trip to London. In the last dozen years she's explored 26 countries and become curiously fascinated with doom and eccentrics. Tre spends her time scheming for Atlas Obscura, remodeling her houseboat and dreaming of her next great escape... the Baltic States by motorcycle.
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Recent Activity
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April 19, 2012
Tre
added St. Mary's Aldermanbury
Small church is moved and reassembled over 4,000 miles away in what the London Times called "perhaps the biggest jigsaw puzzle in the history of architecture,"
If you were searching for a church that was built in London some time before 1181, only to be rebuilt after the Great Fire of London, it seems safe to assume that the first place you'd look would... »
Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Tre and Annetta
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February 13, 2012
Tre
added California Academy of Sciences Herpetology Department
Over 300,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars
While most visitors to the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park are ogling the albino alligator, those in the know are looking through the over 300,000 specimens from 166 countries... »
Fascinating Fauna, Natural History | Edited by Tre, Annetta and others
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May 10, 2010
Tre
updated the Bodie State Historical Park
Gold rush era ghost town in the Sierra Nevada hills
It was once the most lawless town in California, a place where the fire bell ringing out the ages of those being laid to rest seemed to never stop ringing. Today, what's left of Bodie is the... »
Ghost Towns | Edited by ogurantz, Dylan and 5 others
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April 6, 2010
Tre
updated the Difference Engine #2
Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life
"I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam."
Cambridge mathematician Charles Babbage was a true child of the early machine age, fascinated from an early age on by the automata... »
Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech | Edited by Annetta, wythe and others
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March 1, 2010
Tre
updated the Giant's Causeway
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones
Famed for its thousands of interlocking hexagonal columns that rise vertically like steps, the Giant's Causeway is a geological oddity that looks distinctly man-made.
In fact, the unusual... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by Josh, michelle and 2 others
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February 10, 2010
Tre
added Minister's Tree House
Treehouse built because of divine inspiration
As he tells the story, in 1993, Minister Horace Burgess was praying when god told him, “If you build a tree house, I’ll see that you never run out of material.” Inspired by this vision of god, the... »
Curious Places of Worship, Eccentric Homes | Edited by Tre, wythe and 4 others
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January 14, 2010
Tre
added Biosphere 2
A reproduction of earth's many biomes
With dreams of colonizing Mars, John P. Allen, who made his millions in oil, funded the building of Biosphere 2 in the middle of the Arizona desert. (Planet earth is Biosphere 1.) The 3.15-acre... »
Instruments of Science, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Tre, wythe and others
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December 11, 2009
Tre
added Exploratorium
Hands-On Science built on the rubble of the 1906 Earthquake, and hiding a few choice exhibits
In 1906, a massive earthquake hit San Francisco, and the “ham and egg” fires - named such because they were started by a family cooking breakfast with an earthquake damaged chimney - that followed... »
Strange Science | Edited by Tre and Nicholas Jackson
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December 10, 2009
Tre
added San Juan Parangaricutiro
This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano
On February 20, 1943, a new volcano began to rise from a cornfield, erupting and slowly consuming two villages in lava and ash. It's said that, as Paricutin erupted, the San Juan Parangaricutiro... »
Ghost Towns | Edited by Tre, re_nakaba and 3 others
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November 29, 2009
Tre
added The Wolf House - Jack London State Park
The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in... »
Unique Collections, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Tre and Annetta
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November 6, 2009
Tre
added Telegraph Island – Jazirat al Maqlab
This remote British Imperial telegraph relay outpost drove men insane
The expression "going around the bend" is not just an idle phrase. For a handful of British soldiers in the mid-1800s, being stationed "around the bend" was the worst place you could possibly be,... »
Incredible Ruins | Edited by Tre and wythe
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October 25, 2009
Tre
added San Francisco Columbarium
The Restored and Active Victorian-Era Final Resting Place of San Francisco
In a quiet stillness befitting the place, behind glass panes and surrounded by keepsakes and loving messages, are the final resting places of a small group of San Franciscans lucky enough to... »
Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by Tre and A Facebook user
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October 25, 2009
Tre
added Devil's Postpile National Monument
Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice
The battling forces of fire and ice created the Devils Postpile: over 400 unusually symmetrical columns of basalt towering six hundred feet high, on the eastern side of the sierras, just outside... »
Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by Tre
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October 20, 2009
Tre
added Scotty's Castle
Abandomed Jazz Age Dream Home and Con Man's Hide-Out in Death Valley Desert
Neither a castle nor Scotty’s, Death Valley Ranch, more commonly known as "Scotty’s Castle" was built by Albert Johnson, an insurance broker from Chicago. Johnson was lured to Death Valley by... »
Ghost Towns, Eccentric Homes | Edited by Tre, BrianDunning and others
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October 18, 2009
Tre
added Fly Ranch Geyser
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure
This alien looking geyser on the edge of Black Rock Desert is actually man made. Man made by accident, that is.
There are actually two geysers on the property. The first was created nearly... »
Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities, Disaster Areas | Edited by Tre, Dylan and others
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October 2, 2009
Tre
added Alchemy Museum / Muzeum Alchymie
Museum of Alchemy and basement Laboratory in an ancient building with a Prince's Oratory in a Gothic Tower
Turning lead into gold for spiritual enlightenment on the quest for the Philosopher’s Stone: this is the goal of the alchemist Michal Pober who runs the Muzeum Alchymie in basement of the... »
Strange Science, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Tre, Annetta and others
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September 7, 2009
Tre
updated the Solomon's Castle title
Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates
Standing in a central Florida swamp, shining in the sun, is a hand-built medieval castle complete with a moat.
The sculptor Howard Solomon started building the castle in 1974 out of aluminum... »
Eccentric Homes | Edited by Tre and As she is spoke
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September 7, 2009
Tre
updated the Cao Dai Holy See description, hours and directions
The lavish temple of a religion that worships Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc and the author of "Les Miserables"
Tay Ninh, 90km outside Saigon, is in many ways a typical Vietnamese provincial city - surrounded by rice fields and choked with motorcycle traffic. But it has one very particular claim to fame - a... »
Curious Places of Worship | Edited by ilbonito, Tre and 3 others
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August 31, 2009
Tre
added Gates Co-op Houseboat Community
A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front
Surrounded by million dollar "floating homes" on beautiful docks behind locked gates, the low hanging-bundled wires and a "Private Property Enter at Your Own Risk" sign constitutes the entrance to... »
Watery Wonders, Eccentric Homes | Edited by Tre, Dylan and 2 others
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August 10, 2009
Tre
updated the Le Chêne Chapelle – The Chapel Oak title
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August 1, 2009
Tre
commented on Maunsell Army Sea Forts
Wow. They look like something straight out of a SciFi movie.
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July 30, 2009
Tre
updated the Singing Sand Dunes of Liwa subtitle and description
Over the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the mysterious music of the desert
According to local legend, evil spirits whisper names to disorient travelers and drag them into danger, singing through the moaning tons of the sand dunes. From beneath footsteps and car wheels, a... »
Musical Wonders | Edited by bradleyhope, Tre and 2 others
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July 26, 2009
Tre
updated the Lake Vostok title, subtitle, description, hours, directions, cost, address and coordinates
Largest sub-glacial lake ever discovered
In 1996, Russian scientists were drilling ice core samples at Vostok Station in Antarctica. When they reached 3,623 meters (11,886 feet), they stopped because they couldn't figure out why the ice... »
Natural Wonders, Watery Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities, Strange Science, Intriguing Environs | Edited by Lockeblade, Tre and 5 others
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July 23, 2009
Tre
updated the Museum Boerhaave subtitle, description, hours and cost
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July 22, 2009
Tre
updated the The Bottle House subtitle, description, hours and cost
House built with over 60,000 glass bottles
In the small town of Kaleva, MI - population 509 - there stands the peculiar home of one John J. Makinen, Sr.
John was the owner of Northwestern Bottling Works and had access to an almost... »
Eccentric Homes | Edited by Tre, wythe and 3 others
Wow. They look like something straight out of a SciFi movie.