Scott Mansfield's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Scott Mansfield

I'm the author of Strong Waters: A Simple Guide to Making Beer, Wine and Spirited Beverages at Home. I also cover the beer, wine and cocktail scene in Northern California's Bay Area,

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Paseo Yortuque

Stroll among dozens of statues depicting pre-Columbian kings, gods, and supernatural beings.

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Glendive, Montana

Glendive Dinosaur Museum

This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective.

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Museo de Sitio (In Situ Museum)

Walk on a glass floor suspended over ancient mummified remains.

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Placerville, California

Gothic Rose Antiques & Curiosities

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Added by GothicRose

Nevada City, California

Malakoff Diggins

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

Added by katherineroland

Rough and Ready, California

Rough and Ready

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

Rachel

Added by Rachel

Grass Valley, California

Empire Mine State Park

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Rachel

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Sacramento, California

Monkey Puzzle Tree

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

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Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca (Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca)

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

Evan Nicole Brown

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Panteón General (General Cemetery)

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

Joseph Heathcott

Added by Joseph Heathcott

Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

Monsieur Mictlan

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Monte Albán, Mexico

Monte Albán

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

Mario Yair TS

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New Salem, North Dakota

Salem Sue

The world's largest Holstein cow.

littlebrumble

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Chamula, Mexico

Iglesia de San Juan

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

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Basílica del Voto Nacional

Legend says if this neo-Gothic basilica is ever officially completed, the world will come to an end.

Tony Dunnell

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Huaca de la Luna

The outside of this exposed Moche pyramid is covered with striking colorful adobe friezes.

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Mitchell, Oregon

Mitchell Shoe Tree

Make it an offering.

Added by Minisaurus

John Day, Oregon

Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Added by AriellRose

Oakland, California

Kaiser Convention Center

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

Added by LaserGirl

Oakland, California

Mountain View Cemetery

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Added by hankchapot

Oakland, California

Cathedral of Christ the Light

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

Added by LaserGirl

Oakland, California

Children's Fairyland

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Rebecca Burgan

Added by Rebecca Burgan

Oakland, California

Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Added by brettyoung

San Francisco, California

Forbes Island

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

Added by brettyoung