Kiri the Unicorn's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Kiri the Unicorn

Kiri the Unicorn is an avid amateur astronomer and self-professed science geek. He can occasionally be found giving impromptu observing sessions or hiking on trails in the Mid-Willamette Valley area.

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Woking, England

The Sandpit on Horsell Common

This peaceful park saw the beginning of an extraterrestrial invasion in H.G. Wells's 'The War of the Worlds.'

AdOYo

Brownsville, Oregon

Linn County Historical Museum

A brief journey through early 19th-century pioneer life across Linn County.

Added by bittystarr

Yachats, Oregon

Thor's Well

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Yachats, Oregon

Bazalgette the Whale

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

R Stemple

Added by R Stemple

Florence, Oregon

Exploding Whale Memorial Park

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

Added by velellavelella

Portland, Oregon

Portland Horse Rings

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

Kerry Wolfe

Added by Kerry Wolfe

June Lake, California

Obsidian Dome

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

Added by scottdfrank

Magdalena, New Mexico

Bracewell Radio Sundial

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

Added by zackofalltrades

Peenemünde, Germany

Peenemünde Army Research Center

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

Christine Williamson

Added by Christine Williamson

Brookings, Oregon

Nobuo Fujita's Sword

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

Added by Minisaurus

Clackamas County, Oregon

Bagby Hot Springs

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

jamesb

Added by jamesb

Enchanted Forest

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

lepainperdu

Added by lepainperdu

Giethoorn, Netherlands

Giethoorn

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

Added by ectoman3

Rhinelander, Wisconsin

Kovac Planetarium

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

Alicia Bones

Added by Alicia Bones

Los Angeles, California

Norton Sales Inc.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

Rachel

Added by Rachel

Pasadena, California

Hale Solar Laboratory

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Pasadena, California

Mount Wilson Observatory

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

Added by wilson

Big Bear Lake, California

Planetarium, Projector, and Science Museum

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

Mauna Kea

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

The Avrocar

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

canuck

Added by canuck

Offaly, Ireland

Leviathan of Parsonstown

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Mount Hamilton, California

Lick Observatory

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

La Cañada Flintridge, California

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

anhie