Our Favorite New Places This Week
An abandoned hotel that’s a graffiti-art destination, a spot to dig fossils, an Eiffel Tower replica, and a seaside stone that seems to defy gravity.
Each week, we highlight a selection of extraordinary new places submitted by you—our Atlas Obscura community of curious travelers. Where will you go next?

Alyko Hotel Ruins
This beachside resort hotel project on the island of Naxos was halted in the 1970s, and has been frozen in time ever since. It has been drawing graffiti artists from around the world for years. — Contributed by jakechouston

Fossil Lake Safari Quarry
Visitors can split rocks to find 52 million-year-old fish fossils at this quarry in western Wyoming, on land that used to be the bed of a prehistoric lake. — Contributed by estorm

Eiffel Tower of Lahore
There are many replicas of the Eiffel Tower in the world, but this one stands in especially stark contrast to its surroundings in Pakistan’s second-largest city. Funded by the government, it was constructed in just 120 days and rises to about a third the height of the original in Paris. — Contributed by Max Cortesi

Balancing Rock
On the shore of the Digby Neck, a Canadian peninsula jutting out into the Bay of Fundy, stands the remarkable sight of this stone, startlingly upright above the waters. It looks precarious, as if it might fall at any moment. But visitors report that seeing it in person is worth the one-mile hike. — Contributed by jdstillwater

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