Rubezahl's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Rubezahl

They're stories everywhere you look: in old buildings, cities, towns, ghost towns, cemeteries, neighborhoods...everywhere. I enjoy digging up the stories of past events and people who may have been forgotten or just not known. In addition to learning about past events and people, I enjoy all types of travel, but especially travel off the beaten path. I'm an advocate for historic and cultural preservation, Main Street and urban redevelopment, and protection of our natural resources.

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Iron Soup

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

MrPExplores

Added by MrPExplores

Medora, North Dakota

Elkhorn Ranch

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

WhiskeyBristles

Added by WhiskeyBristles

Meriden, Connecticut

Castle Craig

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

Jimmy Carter's Hot Dog Bun

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

rachelrummel

Added by rachelrummel

Indianapolis, Indiana

The Athenaeum

This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.

Added by kyletravers5

Freeport, Maine

Freeport McDonald's

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Bendboy

Added by Bendboy

New Orleans, Louisiana

Street Name Tiles of New Orleans

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Rebecca Byrne

Added by Rebecca Byrne

Flagstaff, Arizona

Wupatki National Monument

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Steve S

Added by Steve S

Mayfield, Kentucky

The Strange Procession Which Never Moves

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Added by davall

Wernigerode, Germany

The Brocken

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

Meg

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Elfreth's Alley

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Added by jhnmcarthur

Teec Nos Pos, Utah

Four Corners Monument

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Added by mightyquinn

Flagstaff, Arizona

Walnut Canyon

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

barnumbrownie

Added by barnumbrownie

West Chester, Pennsylvania

Baldwin's Book Barn

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

Added by dsb510

Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

George Washington's Bathtub

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

Added by bibliobutch

Yavapai County, Arizona

Montezuma Castle

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Added by REWALLS

East Liverpool, Ohio

The Starting Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey

After covering almost 1.5 billion acres, the survey's still not finished.

Sarah Laskow

Added by Sarah Laskow

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rocky Statue

josephwbeck

Added by josephwbeck

Seneca Falls, New York

Wesleyan Chapel

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

AaronNetsky

Added by AaronNetsky

Colleville-sur-Mer, France

Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

Christine Williamson

Added by Christine Williamson

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Bock Casemates

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

Added by graknil

Virginia City, Nevada

Piper's Opera House

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Arlington, Virginia

George Washington Memorial Parkway

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

Elliot Carter

Added by Elliot Carter

Fort Washington, Maryland

Fort Washington

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

Elliot Carter

Added by Elliot Carter