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 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

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Places visited in Vinnytsia, Ukraine

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam Oersoep

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

thelittleowl

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

Oudekerksplein

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

Our Lord in the Attic

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Luke J Spencer

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Moscow Metro Stations

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

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Le Comptoir Général

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

EricGrundhauser

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Museum of the History of Medicine

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Allison

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Deyrolle Taxidermy

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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Crypt Beneath St. Joseph des Carmes

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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The Wax and Bone Relics of Saint Vincent de Paul

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Laetitia Barbier

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Chapelle Notre Dame de la Medaille Miraculeuse

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Laetitia Barbier

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Fountain of Innocents

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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Belgrade, Serbia

Ruins of Yugoslav Army Headquarters

Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.

stanestane

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Belgrade, Serbia

Western City Gate of Belgrade

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

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Musée des Plans-Reliefs

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

Annetta Black

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Napoleon's Angels

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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Pomze Paris

Madiha Bataineh

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Montparnasse Cemetery

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Allison

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Museum of Vampires

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Laetitia Barbier

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Parc Monceau

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

orchidsheart42

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Un Regard Moderne Bookstore

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Laetitia Barbier

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Florence, Italy

Gipsoteca Bartolini

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Meg

Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

serflac

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Place de la Reunion Fountain

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

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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.

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