Derringer's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Derringer

Husband, new father(!), gregarious globetrotter, experience-seeking adventurer, aspiring writer, amateur photographer, avid reader, perpetual Dungeon Master and pursuer of the mysterious, the unknown and the obscure in our anything-but-ordinary world.

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Huashan Temple

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

Josh

Shilin Stone Forest

270 million year-old forest of stone.

leiris

Added by leiris

Chongqing, China

Three Natural Bridges

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.

Added by lioness1041

Shanghai, China

Bund Sightseeing Tunnel

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

Added by deni367

Zhangjiajie, China

Tianmen Skywalk

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

Shengshan Island, China

Houtouwan

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

planan

Added by planan

Zhangjiajie, China

Tianmen Shan

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

atimian

Added by atimian

The Forbidden City

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Zhangjiajie, China

Avatar Hallelujah Mountain

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

lewblank

Added by lewblank

Hanging Temple of Hengshan

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Josh

Yangshuo and Moon Hill

A natural arch offers panoramic views of Yangshuo's karst hills.

serflac

Added by serflac

Stavanger, Norway

Stavanger Cathedral

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

Added by Vamperstein88

Cleveland, Ohio

The Haserot Angel

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Sedlec Ossuary "Bone Church"

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Snagov Island, Romania

Snagov Monastery

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

NMaF

Brno Ossuary

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Dylan

Zoroastrian Towers of Silence

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

rogerbcn

Added by rogerbcn

Convento de San Francisco Ossuary

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Added by zeppomarks

San Martino della Battaglia, Italy

Ossario di San Martino

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

Added by 2wandering

Bremen, Germany

Bleikeller

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

Luis Morato

Added by Luis Morato

Republic of Nauru

Nauru

"The country that ate itself."

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Ordino, Andorra

The Miniature Museum

Some of the smallest works of art in existence.

Blindcolour

Added by Blindcolour

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Bock Casemates

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

Added by graknil

Beidweiler, Luxembourg

Schiessentümpel

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.

David W

Added by David W