wittc2's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

wittc2

I just make lists of places to go to, and take pictures of the signs

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Vienna, Austria

The Narrenturm

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Vienna, Austria

Kriminalmuseum

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

michelle

Added by michelle

Wattens, Austria

Crystal Worlds

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Salzburg, Austria

Schloss Hellbrunn

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Quadlazer

Added by Quadlazer

Vienna, Austria

Habsburg Imperial Crypt

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Ordino, Andorra

St. George Icon Museum

Extensive Orthodox icon collection in Andorra.

Added by oksanam

Ordino, Andorra

The Miniature Museum

Some of the smallest works of art in existence.

Blindcolour

Added by Blindcolour

Tirana, Albania

Pyramid of Tirana

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

SkareMedia

Added by SkareMedia

Sarandë District, Albania

Syri i Kalter: The Blue Eye

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Added by goranger22

Silver City, Nevada

American Flats

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Added by neonconflagrations

White King

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Winnemucca, Nevada

Humboldt Museum

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Added by cromag

Prometheus Tree Stump

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

Josh

Toquima Cave

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Hidden Cave at Grimes Point

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Yucca Mountain Repository

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

Added by LongNow

Tikaboo Peak

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

Added by zackofalltrades

The Bristlecone Pines of the Great Basin

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Added by LongNow

Gerlach, Nevada

Fly Geyser

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Tre

Roatán, Honduras

Bay Islands Underwater Museum

This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.

Added by nickylopez24

Guatemala City, Guatemala

Mapa en Relieve

An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.

Meg

Tikal, Guatemala

Archaeologists' Abandoned Camp

The remnants of an archaeological camp stand within Tikal National Park.

Added by Piis Pol

Guatemala City, Guatemala

Great Guatemalan Sinkhole

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

gabeschwartz

Added by gabeschwartz

Zarcero, Costa Rica

Parque Francisco Alvarado

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser