relizh's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

relizh

Wanderer, storyteller, & daydreamer who occasionally gets out to see the world.

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Canberra, Australia

Phar Lap's Heart

The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.

Molly McBride Jacobson

Added by Molly McBride Jacobson

The Heart of Voltaire

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Dylan

Donaueschingen, Germany

Donauquelle

The great Danube river starts here.

Ell Hughes

Added by Ell Hughes

Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

The Dome of Light

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

Morgan Randall

Added by Morgan Randall

Washington, D.C.

Washington Mini Monument

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

Elliot Carter

Added by Elliot Carter

Shah Cheragh

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

ahvenas

Added by ahvenas

Concord, Massachusetts

Author's Ridge

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Boston, Massachusetts

Ether Monument

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Added by Raychael

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston History Dioramas

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

alinekaplan

Added by alinekaplan

Boston, Massachusetts

Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

mmvk

Boston, Massachusetts

Mapparium Globe

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

michelle

Added by michelle

Barskoon, Kyrgyzstan

Monument to Yuri Gagarin

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

Dylan

Pozzuoli, Italy

Phlegraean Fields

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Green Gables, Prince Edward Island

Anne of Green Gables Museum

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

misswhite1

Added by misswhite1

Arles Amphitheatre

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

annambouma

Added by annambouma

Golconda, Nevada

Midas Ghost Town Saloon

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

lewblank

Added by lewblank

Franeker, Netherlands

Eisinga Planetarium

Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.

michelle

Added by michelle

Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Slauerhoffbrug Flying Drawbridge

This unique bridge physically lifts a piece of the road into the air to let boats pass by.

lewblank

Added by lewblank

The Texas Woofus

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

saltrack25

Added by saltrack25

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mary Tyler Moore Statue

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

Molly McBride Jacobson

Added by Molly McBride Jacobson

Hřensko, Czechia

Pravčická brána (Pravčice Gate)

Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.

Sebastian Wortys

Added by Sebastian Wortys

Shenzhen Shi, China

Window of the World

130 replicas of world wonders squeezed into just 118 acres of space.

lewblank

Added by lewblank

Aptos, California

SS Palo Alto

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Hampi

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.