Vlado's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Vlado

I am a historian with an interest in less than obvious artifacts and places, which hold a potential to tell an important story.

https://www.bu.edu/core/people/vladimir-petrovic/

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Places added to Somerville, Massachusetts

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Places added to Newton, Massachusetts

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Places added to Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

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Places edited in Winthrop, Massachusetts

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Places edited in Somerville, Massachusetts

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Belgrade, Serbia

Ruins of Yugoslav Army Headquarters

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

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Belgrade, Serbia

Museum of Yugoslavia

A museum dedicated to the former country.

soundkrampf

Added by soundkrampf

Boston, Massachusetts

Bunker Hill Monument

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Added by mayormammoth

Boston, Massachusetts

USS Constitution

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

jusTodd

Added by jusTodd

Boston, Massachusetts

Jamaica Pond Bench

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

Ophelia Ravenia

Added by Ophelia Ravenia

Boston, Massachusetts

Fort Independence (Castle Island)

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Boston, Massachusetts

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (The Gardner)

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

nbj914

Added by nbj914

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston Bricks

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Added by kollek

Boston, Massachusetts

Brattle Book Shop

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Asia London Palomba

Added by Asia London Palomba

Boston, Massachusetts

Central Burying Ground

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

alinekaplan

Added by alinekaplan

Boston, Massachusetts

Forest Hills Cemetery

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Rachaelannmare

Added by Rachaelannmare

Dedham, Massachusetts

Fairbanks House

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

anneobrien

Added by anneobrien

Boston, Massachusetts

Brook Farm

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

rachelelizabethmaher

Added by rachelelizabethmaher