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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The Secret Guide to Alternative Beijing: Abandoned Wonderland Amusement Park

The Secret Guide to Alternative Beijing: Abandoned Wonderland Amusement Park

Conjoined fetus and brain-in-jar candles

Fabricating Fiends: The Gemini Company Replicates Sideshow Oddities and Medical Curiosities

Disasters of New York at Green-Wood Cemetery

Disasters of New York at Green-Wood Cemetery

Calvary Cemetery

cemeteries

Society Adventures: Cemetery Explorations at Calvary Cemetery

A Tour of Buenos Aires Street Art

A Tour of Buenos Aires Street Art

Houdini: Art and Magic at the Jewish Museum

Houdini: Art and Magic at the Jewish Museum

Commemorating the Publication of Poe's "The Raven"

edgar allan poe

Commemorating the Publication of Poe's "The Raven"

Coney Island is Dying

Coney Island is Dying

Open House New York

Open House New York

Antinous: Finding a Human Among the Gods

Antinous: Finding a Human Among the Gods

Big Bertha at the University of Chicago in 1922.

essential guide

Essential Guide :: College Football

Essential Guide: Cemeteries

essential guide

Essential Guide: Cemeteries

Trepanation and His Dark Materials

Trepanation and His Dark Materials

André Chénier and the victims of the guillotine in the Cimetière de Picpus

André Chénier and the victims of the guillotine in the Cimetière de Picpus

The Raven and the Oral Tradition of British Columbia's First Nations

The Raven and the Oral Tradition of British Columbia's First Nations

The Osage Reign of Terror

The Osage Reign of Terror

The main Square of Dubrovnik

The Possible Tomb of Roland in Blaye

Truman Capote and his House on the Heights

Truman Capote and his House on the Heights