gretchenmora's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

gretchenmora

I took a trip around the world August 2017-July 2018. I visited Europe, Africa and Asia. I am slowly making my way to other countries and continents! I love the offbeat and odd things I find in my travels.

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Ferndale, California

Champion Cow Graves

Pay your respects to three butterfat queens.

Added by jwmarsh123

Uppsala, Sweden

Universitetshuset Runestone Circle

A large collection of ancient runestones decorates this university courtyard.

CoolCrab

Added by CoolCrab

Stockholm, Sweden

Last Home of Descartes

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

CoolCrab

Added by CoolCrab

Puquios

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Seoul, South Korea

Museum Kimchikan

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

Erin Everywhere

Added by Erin Everywhere

Chauchilla Cemetery

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

Dylan

Lübeck, Germany

Medieval Courtyards of Lübeck

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

cherylcowtan

Added by cherylcowtan

Vienna, Austria

Vienna Grand Ferris Wheel

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Stockholm, Sweden

Codex Gigas (The Devil's Bible)

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Whisky55

Added by Whisky55

Strasbourg, France

Strasbourg Astronomical Clock

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

Added by nanamarins212

Dresden, Germany

Grünes Gewölbe (Green Vault)

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

easydistance

Added by easydistance

Vienna, Austria

Clock Museum

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Added by mbison

London, England

Archie the Giant Squid

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

London, England

Darwin Centre Spirit Collection

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

PaperTiger

Added by PaperTiger

Helsingør, Denmark

Kronborg Castle (Elsinore)

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

canuck

Added by canuck

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Rasputin Museum at Yusupov Palace

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Dresden, Germany

Schwebebahn Dresden

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

Vienna, Austria

Esperanto Museum

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Dylan

Vienna, Austria

Globe Museum

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Dylan