springer's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

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springer

From my childhood days, I have wanted to know what was beyond the horizon. After twenty-two and a half years in the US Navy and fifty-plus years traveling the globe since retiring I have managed to see many Lands, which I could have only dreamed about as a child. Meeting people along the way and trying to understand their culture has been an extra benefit. To this day I still have friends I made fifty + years ago in distant countries. Travel broadens one's mind and outlook on life. One must take the first step.

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Places visited in Mineral Wells, Texas

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Places visited in Holy Island of Lindisfarne, England

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Places visited in Omaha, Nebraska

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Places edited in Dallas, Texas

Secret Compartment in Leonardo da Vinci Statue

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.

Christine Williamson

Added by Christine Williamson

The Tree Goats of Morocco

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Fort Worth, Texas

Man With a Briefcase

The man who wasn't there.

Added by dunwithluv

Los Angeles, California

Toto Canine Movie Star Memorial Marker

Because there's no place like home.

Stanley, Falkland Islands

Christ Church Cathedral

The southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world has whale bones standing in its yard.

SamM

Los Angeles, California

Millennium Biltmore Hotel

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

mark hayward

Added by mark hayward

Roswell, New Mexico

Roswell McDonald's

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

VanessaMontalbano

Added by VanessaMontalbano

Fort Worth, Texas

The Palace Light Bulb

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

michelle

Added by michelle

The Traveling Man

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Chester, England

Chester Rows

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Added by humanist

The Big House (Allman Brothers Museum)

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

rockabillyratrod

Added by rockabillyratrod

Chicago, Illinois

The Fountain of Time

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

Added by Shibboleth

Los Angeles, California

Pink's Hot Dogs

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Elise

San Diego, California

USS Recruit

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

Gregory T Janetka

Added by Gregory T Janetka

Adrian E. Flatt, M.D., Hand Collection

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

Added by erogers717

Boys Town, Nebraska

World's Largest Ball of Stamps

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

Oliver Hong

Added by Oliver Hong

Northumberland, England

Winter's Gibbet

A lone pole once used to display a man's corpse now stands empty, but the memory remains.

drawingofsound

Added by drawingofsound

Tristan da Cunha

Tristan da Cunha

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

serflac

Added by serflac

Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

The Grave of Ernest Shackleton

Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

PaperTiger

Added by PaperTiger

Mineral Wells, Texas

Camp Wolters

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Added by Facebook1049881292

San Antonio, Texas

Mission San Jose

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Madiha Bataineh

Added by Madiha Bataineh

Los Angeles, California

Angels Flight

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

anhie

Rapa Nui, Chile

"El Gigante" and the Moai of Rapa Nui

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

Added by LongNow

Petra District, Jordan

Petra

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years old and harbors many surprises.

Added by LongNow