Elizabeth Iris's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Elizabeth Iris

I have a BA honours degree in American Studies and an MA in Public History and Heritage. I love to explore, travel and take photographs and share them on my blog.

https://linktr.ee/elizabethiris

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Roswell, New Mexico

Roswell McDonald's

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

VanessaMontalbano

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San Francisco, California

The 'Full House' House

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Valerie

Added by Valerie

San Bernardino, California

Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Healing Center

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

anhie

Oro Grande, California

Elmer Long's Bottle Tree Ranch

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

atimian

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Newberry Springs, California

Rock-A-Hoola Waterpark

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

amboy

Monticello, Utah

Hole N" the Rock

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Ludlow, California

Ludlow

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Monica Petrus

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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

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Amboy, California

Amboy Ghost Town

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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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

Roswell, New Mexico

International UFO Museum and Research Center

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

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San Francisco, California

Ruins of the Sutro Baths

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Annetta Black

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Laguna Beach, California

Victoria Beach's Pirate Tower

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

benihoopla

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San Francisco, California

Alcatraz Island

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

AllisonEng

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Horseshoe Bend

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

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Antelope Canyon

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

leiris

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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.

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Rhyolite Ghost Town

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.