Allison Meier

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2010

Allison is a former Senior Editor at Atlas Obscura, and their ongoing cemetery tour guide and aficionado. She works as a writer on art and overlooked history, and is an avid cemetery explorer. Originally from an Oklahoma oil town, she's now based in Brooklyn after living for a time in France. She likes monumental art installations of ephemeral beauty and minuscule cemeteries hidden in the city sprawl.

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Articles by Allison Meier

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Morbid Monday: The Royal Rotting Room

morbid monday

Morbid Monday: The Royal Rotting Room

Objects of Intrigue: The Infernal Machine

objects of intrigue

Objects of Intrigue: The Infernal Machine

Ghosts of Airships: 7 Vestiges of the Great Helium Hope

aviation

Ghosts of Airships: 7 Vestiges of the Great Helium Hope

Objects of Intrigue: The Tiny Photo Album of a "Fairy Wedding"

objects of intrigue

Objects of Intrigue: The Tiny Photo Album of a "Fairy Wedding"

Last Midnight of the Steam Whistles

retro-tech

Last Midnight of the Steam Whistles

London's Graveyard of the Outcast Dead to Resurrect into a Memorial Garden

cemeteries

London's Graveyard of the Outcast Dead to Resurrect into a Memorial Garden

Life in a Town with a Population of Four

abandoned

Life in a Town with a Population of Four

Waterfalls Frozen in Time: The Geothermal Beauty of Eight Travertine Terraces

travertine terraces

Waterfalls Frozen in Time: The Geothermal Beauty of Eight Travertine Terraces

Quietly Growing Among Us, These Trees Flew to the Moon and Back

space exploration

Quietly Growing Among Us, These Trees Flew to the Moon and Back

Futuro Houses: A Failed 1960s Attempt at UFO Living

retrofuturistic

Futuro Houses: A Failed 1960s Attempt at UFO Living

Invisible Life of the American Museum of Natural History: A Video Series for the 33 Million Objects the Public Never Sees

natural history museums

Invisible Life of the American Museum of Natural History: A Video Series for the 33 Million Objects the Public Never Sees

Objects of Intrigue: All Aboard the Funeral Trains!

objects of intrigue

Objects of Intrigue: All Aboard the Funeral Trains!

A Lost Collection of Abnormal Brains Finally Gets a History

insane asylums

A Lost Collection of Abnormal Brains Finally Gets a History

Numbers Instead of Names on the Forgotten Graves of Asylum Patients

cemeteries

Numbers Instead of Names on the Forgotten Graves of Asylum Patients

The 1920s Puppeteer Whose Inflatable Monsters Changed Thanksgiving

rites and rituals

The 1920s Puppeteer Whose Inflatable Monsters Changed Thanksgiving

Alcatraz's Off-Limits Hospital Opens its Decrepit Wards

abandoned hospitals

Alcatraz's Off-Limits Hospital Opens its Decrepit Wards

Lost Museums of New York

museums

Lost Museums of New York

Royse City Futuro House

best new wonders

The Best New Wonders of November

Murals of Birds Threatened by Climate Change Infiltrate Audubon's Former Neighborhood

art

Murals of Birds Threatened by Climate Change Infiltrate Audubon's Former Neighborhood

One of NYC's Last Clock Towers Has Its Future Decided This Week

clocks

One of NYC's Last Clock Towers Has Its Future Decided This Week

Ghost Islands: Eight of the Eeriest Abandoned Places on the Seas

abandoned

Ghost Islands: Eight of the Eeriest Abandoned Places on the Seas

America's Abandoned Insane Asylum Cemeteries

abandoned insane asylums

America's Abandoned Insane Asylum Cemeteries

Colonia Fara

best new wonders

The Best New Wonders of October

Objects of Intrigue: The Trials and Terrible Tribulations of a 17th-Century Heart

objects of intrigue

Objects of Intrigue: The Trials and Terrible Tribulations of a 17th-Century Heart