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On Streets and Subways in South Korea, Poetry Hides in Plain Sight
You'll find poems in hostels, restaurants, and even on mountain trails—if you know where to look.
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Read 8 Pieces of Creative Writing Inspired by Atlas Obscura Stories
We gave you the opening lines. You gave us inspired storytelling.
Cambridge, England
Xu Zhimo Memorial
A monument to one of the most famous modernist Chinese poems and its poet.
Carthage, Tunisia
Byrsa Hill
An ancient Phoenician citadel once stood at the site where Queen Dido first landed, according to legend.
Worms, Germany
Hagendenkmal
A statue dedicated to the antihero of the Nibelung legend.
Sirmione, Italy
Grotte di Catullo (Grottoes of Catullus)
On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.
Matsushima, Japan
Matsushima Bay
These tiny pine-covered islands have inspired art and poetry for centuries.
London, England
William Blake Mosaics
This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.
San Agustín Etla, Mexico
La Planta (Power Plant)
Pause in an abandoned hydroelectric station, now overrun with wildlife, to consider a thought-provoking poem.
Chengdu, China
Du Fu KFC
A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Literary Café
Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.
Sligo, Ireland
Grave of W. B. Yeats
This cemetery overlooking the Benbulben rock formation is the final resting place of one of Ireland's most beloved poets.
Springfield, Illinois
Vachel Lindsay Home
The poet’s boyhood home is now dedicated to celebrating his life and legacy.
Asheville, North Carolina
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.
Edinburgh, Scotland
'Dreaming Spires'
Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.
Glendalough, Ireland
Writers' Room at The Wicklow Heather
A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.
Tepoztlán, Mexico
Latrine Poems at Museo de la Natividad
Historic poems about the noble act of defecating have been preserved on the wall of this old convent.
Concord, Massachusetts
The Old Manse
The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.
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