Aksel's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Aksel

Travelled & worked in 5 continents. Drove by 4x4 from UlanBataar Mongolia back home to The Netherlands, via Pamir Highway and Turkmenistan. Also explored a dozen African countries overland.

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Santpoort-Zuid, Netherlands

Brederode Castle

The ruins of a medieval castle that once belonged to one of the most powerful families in the Netherlands.

Claudia Crobatia

Added by Claudia Crobatia

Rotterdam, Netherlands

The Giant Of Rotterdam

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

Added by pimskie

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Blaak House

Elegant marble and old vaults fill this historic Dutch bank turned office space.

Added by Rianne Groen

Boon Ko Ku So Bridge

This serene bamboo walkway allows Buddhist monks from remote temples access to the nearby village.

Amber C Snider

Added by Amber C Snider

Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma)

World's Largest Book at Kuthodaw Pagoda

This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."

Josh

Botyre (Ayent), Switzerland

The Bisses of Valais

Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.

AaronNetsky

Added by AaronNetsky

Berlin, Germany

Berlin Botanical Garden

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Rachel

Added by Rachel

Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

serflac

Added by serflac

Gustave Eiffel's Secret Apartment

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Schwangau, Germany

Neuschwanstein Castle

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

michelle

Added by michelle

Geneva, Switzerland

United Nations Ceiling

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Heicheng Ruins

Sited in an Inner Mongolian desert are the remnants of an important trade stop along the Silk Road.

Added by Rachel Gould

Notre-Dame-de-Lorette

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

Amrapali

Added by Amrapali

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Café Papeneiland

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

Sam OBrien

Added by Sam OBrien

Khangalassky District, Russia

Lena Stone Pillars

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Ayano-Maysky District, Russia

Kondyor Massif

Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.

mirrormundo

Added by mirrormundo

Irkutsk, Russia

Nikita's Guesthouse on Olkhon Island

Intricate wood carvings on an island in Siberia.

Dampo

Ivolginskiy datsan, Russia

Ivolginsky Datsan

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

Dylan

Vaadhoo, Maldives

Sea of Stars

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

Added by tbgtigger

Akrotiri, Cyprus

Holy Monastery of St. Nicholas of the Cats

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Kolossi, Cyprus

Kolossi Castle

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

markiandolo

Added by markiandolo

Agios Tychon, Cyprus

Ancient Sex Curse of Cyprus

Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.

katiebaker4

Added by katiebaker4

Foinikas

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

petrosmonogios

Added by petrosmonogios

The Mosaics of Paphos

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

Dr Alan P Newman

Added by Dr Alan P Newman