Svitlana Orlynska's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Svitlana Orlynska

Ukrainian living in Vienna. Traveled to 50+ countries: both "must see" destinations and "off the beaten track".

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Places visited in Kyiv, Ukraine

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Places visited in Innsbruck, Austria

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Places visited in Ein Gedi, Israel

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Places visited in Austria

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Places visited in Vienna, Austria

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Places visited in Vinnytsia, Ukraine

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Little Woodcutter

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

City Hall Urinal

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

Theater Tuschinski

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

The House with The Blood Stains

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

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Barcelona, Spain

Street Performers of Las Ramblas

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

Sebastian Wortys

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Keret House

The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.

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The Neon Museum

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

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Galeria Forty / Forty

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

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Lychakiv Cemetery

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

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Lasithi, Greece

Spinalonga Island

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

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Ottensheim, Austria

Dasparkhotel

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

Mark Casey

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Brașov, Romania

Biserica Neagră (The Black Church)

A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.

Kerry Wolfe

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Salzburg, Austria

Panorama Museum Salzburg

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

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Salzburg, Austria

Dom Museum's Kunst und Wunderkammer

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Alland, Austria

Mayerling Lodge

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

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Sape & Co

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

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Montmartre Funicular

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Le Chat Noir Collection

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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Carousel of Extinct and Endangered Animals

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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Grande Galerie de l'Évolution

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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The Room of Endangered and Extinct Species

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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La Promenade Plantée

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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Musée des Arts Forains

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.