Lana Velkov's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Lana Velkov

A place to record my life's travels.

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Places visited in Singapore

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‘From Chettiars to Financiers’

A unique, time-transcending work of art depicting the progress of trade in Singapore.

Fred Cherrygarden

Added by Fred Cherrygarden

Nirvana Memorial Garden

Surrounded by a serene and tranquil environment, this magnificent columbarium is the popular final resting place for many families to house their departed loved ones.

jacklim

Added by jacklim

Keramat Iskandar Shah

A venerated grave atop an ancient royal hill, often attributed to the last king of Singapura.

Added by tanahpek

Old Hill Street Police Station

Rainbow shutters decorate this former police station.

katielou106

Added by katielou106

'Place of Refuge'

According to fictional Kcymaerxthaereal history, a powerful woman with a voice whose beauty could not be concealed found solace at this site at the Majestic Hotel in Singapore.

jase

Keramat Bukit Kasita

This royal shrine and cemetery is hidden amidst modern public housing.

Added by tanahpek

Kebun Baru Birdsinging Club

Singapore's Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West is a social hotspot for songbirds and their humans.

Ellie Clin

Added by Ellie Clin

Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle

This family-owned pottery shop is home to the last operational dragon kiln in Singapore.

Added by arlene

LASALLE Campus Green

A quiet patch of astroturf laid out between a building that seems to be splitting in half.

Added by geraldinehjm

Kwong Wai Siew Peck San Theng

The confluence of modernist and traditional architecture in this religious complex reflects the history of both the living and the dead being uprooted, displaced, and rehoused.

Added by tanahpek

Berlin Wall in Singapore

Two panes of the massive Cold War artifact are on display at the National University of Singapore.

Added by arlene

Southernmost Point of Continental Asia

Across this single-file rope bridge is what has been claimed to be the edge of continental Asia.

Global Sightseer

Added by Global Sightseer

Krishna's Kitchen

Little India's hidden gem of kindness and good food.

HazelQ

Added by HazelQ

German Girl Shrine

A Singapore shrine to an unnamed German girl who has become a local deity.

Laura Quinn Goh

Added by Laura Quinn Goh

Katong Antique House

This jam-packed Singapore antique museum preserves the fading remnants of a uniquely mixed culture.

Laura Quinn Goh

Added by Laura Quinn Goh

House of Tan Teng Niah

This house is one of the most colorful in the country, and is the last remaining example of a historic villa.

FrustratedFormerContributor

Added by FrustratedFormerContributor

World's First Salmon ATM

Frozen in Norway, vended in Singapore.

IvyMike

Added by IvyMike

The Live Turtle and Tortoise Museum

Terrapins of all colors and shapes are quick to bring fascination (and possibly long life) at this museum.

Added by Swampthing

The Protestant Cemetery

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Added by Spacedlaw

The Mouth of Truth

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

The Dome Illusion

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Galleria Sciarra

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

Asia London Palomba

Added by Asia London Palomba

Freedom Monument

This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.

Global Sightseer

Added by Global Sightseer

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Orlando's Column in Dubrovnik

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

stanestane

Added by stanestane