Bowiefrid's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Bowiefrid

I live in a forest with a witch and a vodu doctor, I'm just the weird guy that collects books. If it weren't for one of my jobs, I probably would have never visited 94% of the places I have seen.

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Places visited in Kazanlak, Bulgaria

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Places visited in Sala, Sweden

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Places visited in Kutna Hora, Czechia

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Places visited in Osimo, Italy

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Places visited in Želízy, Czechia

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Places visited in Pavia, Italy

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Places visited in Gildeskål, Norway

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Prague, Czechia

Old Jewish Cemetery

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Added by biboul

Prague, Czechia

Municipal House

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Added by ridabrams

Prague, Czechia

Hlava Franze Kafky (Franz Kafka's Head)

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Sebastian Wortys

Added by Sebastian Wortys

Prague, Czechia

Hrdlička Museum of Anthropology

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

pieofthemonth

Added by pieofthemonth

Copenhagen, Denmark

Royal Danish Naval Museum

A museum filled with tiny, adorable versions of the mighty Royal Danish Navy.

Added by sarahbenson

Copenhagen, Denmark

Throne of Denmark

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Copenhagen, Denmark

Tivoli Gardens

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Added by nitikp

Hellerup, Denmark

Tuborgflasken

Danish observation tower designed to look like a giant beer bottle.

Land of Legends

This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.

Mandias

Added by Mandias

Copenhagen, Denmark

Superkilen

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Copenhagen, Denmark

Elephant Gate

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Grabarka, Poland

Holy Mountain of Grabarka

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

AdamTKincaid

Added by AdamTKincaid

Merkinė, Lithuania

Paulava Republic (Pavlov Republic)

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

Vladas U

Added by Vladas U

Klevan, Ukraine

Tunnel of Love

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

Leslie McIntyre

Added by Leslie McIntyre

Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

emmastargirl

Added by emmastargirl

Borshchivs'kyi district, Ukraine

Priest's Grotto

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

meganmichelle

Added by meganmichelle

Smaliavicki rajon, Belarus

Mound of Glory

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

ahvenas

Added by ahvenas

Chernihiv, Ukraine

Black Grave

One of the largest remaining ancient burial mounds of the 10th century.

Ivankivs'kyi district, Ukraine

Ovum II

Sculpture that doubles as a time capsule so that life can survive radiation outside Chernobyl.

canuck

Added by canuck

Pripyat, Ukraine

Pripyat Amusement Park

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

Allison

Added by Allison

Pripyat, Ukraine

Abandoned City of Pripyat

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Added by Delireus

Arsenalna Metro Station

The deepest metro station in the world.

SamM

House with Chimaeras

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

SamM

Olenivka, Crimea

Underwater Museum at Cape Tarkhankut

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

aboychuk

Added by aboychuk