biodieselbarry's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

biodieselbarry

Although mostly domestic, I travel for work and routinely look for nearby Atlas Obscura sites. When I'm able, I also contribute as I stumble across the off-beat spots I find far from the main roads.

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Dr Pepper Museum

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Czech Stop & Little Czech Bakery

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

samuellinsommer

Added by samuellinsommer

Grave in the Road

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Molly McBride Jacobson

Added by Molly McBride Jacobson

Carthage, Texas

Last Remaining Boundary Marker for the Republic of Texas

The only international border marker within the United States.

Added by bcarusella

Caddo Lake

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

Added by mettelund

Shreveport, Louisiana

Ogilvie-Wiener Mansion

From a supper club to a gay bar to an HBO shooting location, this 125-year-old Victorian mansion has lived many lives.

lukefater

Added by lukefater

Urbana, Illinois

Nick Offerman Azumaya

An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

Helena, Montana

Canyon Ferry Lake's Cemetery Island

This cemetery is one of the last remaining traces of a drowned old Western town.

Added by Jamie Cornish

Philipsburg, Montana

Granite Ghost Town

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

PassionsandPlaces

Added by PassionsandPlaces

Drummond, Montana

Garnet, Montana

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Húsavík, Iceland

Jaja Ding Dong

A real-life homage to the Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell's fictional Eurovision musical duo.

Diana Hubbell

Added by Diana Hubbell

West Mercur, Utah

Mercur Cemetery

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

Added by antoniodudleyofficial

Grantsville, Utah

Iosepa Ghost Town

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Meg

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnehaha Falls

This small, but beautiful waterfall has attracted visits from artists, composers, and two United States presidents.

Dr Alan P Newman

Added by Dr Alan P Newman

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Orfield Labs Quiet Chamber

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

katiebaker4

Added by katiebaker4

Charleston, South Carolina

Tavern at Rainbow Row

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

lukefater

Added by lukefater

Charleston, South Carolina

Stede Bonnet Hanging Site

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

J Ginsberg

Added by J Ginsberg

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Myrtle Beach Colored School Museum

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

Added by jenniep

Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Arecibo Observatory

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Brain Collection at the University of Texas at Austin

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Rachel

Added by Rachel

Ogallala, Nebraska

Crystal Palace Cowboy Revue

Nebraska’s longest-running summer theater is a musical tribute to cowboy culture.

Added by heshsf

Omaha, Nebraska

William Thompson's Scalped Scalp

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

Alicia Bones

Added by Alicia Bones

Park County, Montana

Grasshopper Glacier

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

Added by Momba7

Red Lodge, Montana

Chromium Mill Ruins

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.

exploringwithesch

Added by exploringwithesch