JennyG's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

JennyG

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Middlemarch, New Zealand

Sutton Salt Lake

New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.

Buchan, Australia

Buchan Caves Reserve

These 400 million-year-old caves feature honeycomb limestone formations.

grahamstewartwalker

Added by grahamstewartwalker

Alinja, Azerbaijan

Alinjagala

In the foothills of the lesser Caucasus, a centuries-old fortress still stands.

julianfkeller99

Added by julianfkeller99

Maseru, Lesotho

Lion Rock Mountain

Just outside Lesotho's capital city, a rock formation takes the shape of a powerful predator.

jamesvachowski

Added by jamesvachowski

Hingham, Massachusetts

World's End

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

Willymjr

Added by Willymjr

Malartic, Québec

Malartic Mine

The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.

Max Cortesi

Added by Max Cortesi

Borgo Amerigo Fazio

A never-inhabited village that was built as part of Mussolini's agricultural reforms.

claus donau

Added by claus donau

Germantown, Maryland

Waters Mill Ruins

The ruins of an old mill lie in a small ravine along a hiking trail near Little Seneca Creek.

Added by blimpcaptain

London, England

Southmere Lake

This artificial lake surrounded by Brutalist architecture served as a stand-in for futuristic Britain in Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange.'

Monsieur Mictlan

Added by Monsieur Mictlan

Adsdorf, Austria

Brauerei Hofstetten

Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.

Diana Hubbell

Added by Diana Hubbell

Blue Ridge, Georgia

The Arm of Buel Stanley

Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.

Added by velellavelella

Queens, New York

Ridgewood Reservoir

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

lampbane

Added by lampbane

Villaseca, Chile

Entre Cordillera Restobar Solar

At this desert restaurant, meals are cooked in solar ovens.

Added by Rafael Tonon

Winchester, England

The Winchester Mizmaze

A rare labyrinth-style path carved into a historic hill.

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Portland, Oregon

Kelly Butte Civil Defense Center

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

Elliot Carter

Added by Elliot Carter

Ballater, Scotland

Garbh Allt Falls Bridge

More than a century old, this cast iron bridge on the Balmoral Estate leads to nowhere.

rugby007

Added by rugby007

Albany, Georgia

Radium Springs Gardens

The ruins of a resort and casino sit on the banks of this blue hole spring that pumps 70,000 gallons of warm, clear water every minute.

Mom0ja

Added by Mom0ja

Hanksville, Utah

Hollow Mountain

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

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Added by raquelmellifera

Québec City, Québec

Onhoüa Chetek8e

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

Max Cortesi

Added by Max Cortesi

Boulder City, Nevada

Black Canyon National Water Trail

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

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Fairview Peak-Dixie Valley Fault Scarps

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

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Kamishihoro, Japan

Taushubetsu River Bridge

An isolated "phantom bridge" doomed to crumble into ruin.

Fred Cherrygarden

Added by Fred Cherrygarden

Zuma Rock

This igneous rock monolith towers above the surrounding landscape just outside the Nigerian capital.

Added by augustinaboateng

Bena, Minnesota

The Big Fish Supper Club

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

Added by velellavelella