Allison's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Allison

Allison is a former Senior Editor at Atlas Obscura, and their ongoing cemetery tour guide and aficionado. She works as a writer on art and overlooked history, and is an avid cemetery explorer. Originally from an Oklahoma oil town, she's now based in Brooklyn after living for a time in France. She likes monumental art installations of ephemeral beauty and minuscule cemeteries hidden in the city sprawl.

http://www.allisoncmeier.com

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Society Adventures: The Entombed Parrot of Woodlawn Cemetery

Vortex-Shaped Futuristic Aquarium Opens in Denmark

The Sensational Return of a Smoking, Walking, Talking World's Fair Robot

RIP Cyclorama: A Brutalist Behemoth that Once Housed an Epic Panorama

Help Restore the Telescope That Once Searched for Life on Mars

Step inside an Interactive Contemporary Cabinet of Wonders in Long Island City

Eviction Block Party for Outsider Art Icon the Broken Angel

Atlas Obscura is on Tumblr!

Miracle Tsunami Tree Resurrected as Sculpture

A Swift Shave: The Barber Shop Car at the Once Off-Limits Petersen Vault

Orchestra of NASA & SETI Scientists Performs at World’s Largest Wind Tunnel

The Kunstkammer Royal Chamber of Art and Wonders Reopens in Vienna

Travel Far, Pay No Fare with the Sketchbook Project

Macabre Mummy "Bust" A Portal to Medieval Dissection

society adventures

Society Adventures: Livingston Masonic Library

Morbid Monday: The Split Head of Old Billy, the World's Oldest Horse

Kinetica Air Fair Challenges Perception and Reality with Mechanical Sculptures

February 28, 2013

Queen's Nuclear Bunker Deep Under Edinburgh Reimagined as a Museum

February 27, 2013

society adventures

Society Adventures: The Awful Dead of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery

February 26, 2013

A Soviet Space Suit for the Unreachable Moon

February 25, 2013

Grant Museum Celebrates the Microscopic in The Micrarium: A Place for Tiny Things

February 22, 2013

Immortalized in Taxidermy, Berlin's Favorite Polar Bear Knut Returns

February 21, 2013

Witness the Terror Bird: Secret Natural History Museum in Sheffield Now Open to the Public

February 20, 2013

Seeing Through a Glass Clearly: The Evolution of the Microscope at the Grolier Club

February 19, 2013