Quisquilia's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Quisquilia

Traveller of all sorts, swinging back and forth between cities, ages, interests, the virtual and the 'real'. My main interests lie with the places you stumble across by chance and leave behind with rich memories.

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Places edited in Kristiansand, Norway

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Places edited in Vienna, Austria

Vienna, Austria

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library)

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Dylan

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

Vienna, Austria

Naturhistorisches Museum

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Dylan

Copenhagen, Denmark

Royal Danish Naval Museum

A museum filled with tiny, adorable versions of the mighty Royal Danish Navy.

Added by sarahbenson

Gommern, Germany

St. Nicholas Church

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

Oliver Hong

Added by Oliver Hong

Berlin, Germany

Museum für Naturkunde

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Allison

Added by Allison

Vienna, Austria

Sigmund Freud Museum

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Rachel

Added by Rachel

Antwerp, Belgium

Plantin-Moretus Museum of Printing

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

Rebekah Otto

Added by Rebekah Otto

Vienna, Austria

The Narrenturm

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Klosterneuburg, Austria

Gugging House of Artists

This outsider art house has gone from clinical creation to astounding artwork.

bboas

Foucault's Pendulum

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

Dampo

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Oudekerksplein

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

serflac

Added by serflac

Berlin, Germany

Ramones Museum

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

Dampo

Geilo Ice Music Festival

Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.

atimian

Added by atimian

Arènes de Lutèce

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

cultureandstuff

Added by cultureandstuff

Dachau, Germany

Dachau Concentration Camp

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Freetown Christiania

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

PaperTiger

Added by PaperTiger

Vienna, Austria

Habsburg Imperial Crypt

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Shakespeare and Company

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Madiha Bataineh

Added by Madiha Bataineh

Dienersdorf, Austria

Gsellmann's Weltmaschine

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

Dylan

Berlin, Germany

Arthouse Tacheles

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Fox Hotel in Copenhagen

Hotel designed by indie graphics artists.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Kristiansand, Norway

Kristiansand Kanonmuseum

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

Added by vicphillipson

Vienna, Austria

Gasometer Town

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.