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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Society Adventures: The Entombed Parrot of Woodlawn Cemetery

society adventures

Society Adventures: The Entombed Parrot of Woodlawn Cemetery

Vortex-Shaped Futuristic Aquarium Opens in Denmark

Vortex-Shaped Futuristic Aquarium Opens in Denmark

The Sensational Return of a Smoking, Walking, Talking World's Fair Robot

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The Sensational Return of a Smoking, Walking, Talking World's Fair Robot

RIP Cyclorama: A Brutalist Behemoth that Once Housed an Epic Panorama

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RIP Cyclorama: A Brutalist Behemoth that Once Housed an Epic Panorama

Help Restore the Telescope That Once Searched for Life on Mars

Help Restore the Telescope That Once Searched for Life on Mars

Step inside an Interactive Contemporary Cabinet of Wonders in Long Island City

Step inside an Interactive Contemporary Cabinet of Wonders in Long Island City

Eviction Block Party for Outsider Art Icon the Broken Angel

Eviction Block Party for Outsider Art Icon the Broken Angel

Atlas Obscura is on Tumblr!

Atlas Obscura is on Tumblr!

Miracle Tsunami Tree Resurrected as Sculpture

Miracle Tsunami Tree Resurrected as Sculpture

A Swift Shave: The Barber Shop Car at the Once Off-Limits Petersen Vault

A Swift Shave: The Barber Shop Car at the Once Off-Limits Petersen Vault

Orchestra of NASA & SETI Scientists Performs at World’s Largest Wind Tunnel

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Orchestra of NASA & SETI Scientists Performs at World’s Largest Wind Tunnel

The Kunstkammer Royal Chamber of Art and Wonders Reopens in Vienna

The Kunstkammer Royal Chamber of Art and Wonders Reopens in Vienna

Travel Far, Pay No Fare with the Sketchbook Project

Travel Far, Pay No Fare with the Sketchbook Project

Macabre Mummy "Bust" A Portal to Medieval Dissection

Macabre Mummy "Bust" A Portal to Medieval Dissection

Society Adventures: Livingston Masonic Library

society adventures

Society Adventures: Livingston Masonic Library

Morbid Monday: The Split Head of Old Billy, the World's Oldest Horse

Morbid Monday: The Split Head of Old Billy, the World's Oldest Horse

Kinetica Air Fair Challenges Perception and Reality with Mechanical Sculptures

Kinetica Air Fair Challenges Perception and Reality with Mechanical Sculptures

Queen's Nuclear Bunker Deep Under Edinburgh Reimagined as a Museum

Queen's Nuclear Bunker Deep Under Edinburgh Reimagined as a Museum

Society Adventures: The Awful Dead of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery

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Society Adventures: The Awful Dead of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery

A Soviet Space Suit for the Unreachable Moon

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A Soviet Space Suit for the Unreachable Moon

The Micrarium

Grant Museum Celebrates the Microscopic in The Micrarium: A Place for Tiny Things

Immortalized in Taxidermy, Berlin's Favorite Polar Bear Knut Returns

taxidermy

Immortalized in Taxidermy, Berlin's Favorite Polar Bear Knut Returns

Witness the Terror Bird: Secret Natural History Museum in Sheffield Now Open to the Public

Witness the Terror Bird: Secret Natural History Museum in Sheffield Now Open to the Public

Seeing Through a Glass Clearly: The Evolution of the Microscope at the Grolier Club

Seeing Through a Glass Clearly: The Evolution of the Microscope at the Grolier Club