benjaminharmon1's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

benjaminharmon1

i am a field agent for Atlas Obscura. i also work as a behavioral therapist and a freelance photographer/writer. originally from Chi. there is whimsy and wonderment around every bend... escape into the world!

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Agua Dulce, California

Vasquez Rocks

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Erin Johnson

Added by Erin Johnson

Los Angeles, California

La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Added by lastpearl

Los Angeles, California

Valley Relics Museum

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Trona, California

Trona Pinnacles

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Added by BrianDunning

Los Angeles, California

The Mar Vista Time Travel Mart

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Added by laurenrock

Inyo County, California

Badwater Basin

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

sebastianopagani

Added by sebastianopagani

Los Angeles, California

Holyland Exhibition

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Genki

Sequoia National Park, California

General Sherman

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Humboldt County, California

Avenue of the Giants

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

journeylism

Added by journeylism

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles' Museum of Broken Relationships

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Molly McBride Jacobson

Added by Molly McBride Jacobson

Culver City, California

The Museum of Jurassic Technology

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Dylan

Bridgeport, California

Bodie State Historic Park

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Added by ogurantz

Rancho Palos Verdes, California

Wayfarers Chapel

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

anhie

Los Angeles, California

No Vacancy

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

wmilam

Added by wmilam

San Diego, California

Sunny Jim Cave Store

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Lancaster, California

Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Allison

Added by Allison

Lee Vining, California

Mono Lake

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

anhie

Los Angeles, California

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

anhie

San Luis Obispo, California

Madonna Inn

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

tralfamadore

Added by tralfamadore

Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz Mystery Spot

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Added by cjwvos

San Francisco, California

The Wave Organ

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Added by mbison

Mexico City, Mexico

Cine Ópera

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

Added by dgerstein69

Mexico City, Mexico

Museo del Juguete Antiguo México

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

elakazal

Added by elakazal

Naucalpan, Mexico

El Nido de Quetzalcóatl

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

KirstenCunningham

Added by KirstenCunningham