Articles by Allison Meier

abandoned

Soviet Ghosts: Photographs from a Shredded Iron Curtain

roadside attractions

Roadside Attractions: Wall Drug, South Dakota

The Best New Wonders of August

carousels

The World's Most Dreamlike Carousels

roadside attractions

Roadside Attractions: The World's Largest Holstein Cow

cemeteries

A Final Resting Place for Rodeo Bulls & Good Horses

statues

Human Teeth Discovered in a Gruesome 18th-Century Christ Statue

roadside attractions

Americana in Watercolor

cemeteries

New York's Most Metal Cemetery

flora

Wishing Trees: Where Money Grows in the Branches

architecture

NYC's Possible Pompeii Columns That Link Its Great Fire to Ancient Volcanic Doom

witchcraft

Clootie Wells: Where the Trees Are Weighed Down in Rotting Rags

cemeteries

Lovecraft in Brooklyn: A Reading by Candlelight in Green-Wood Cemetery

maps

Unruly Places: Alastair Bonnett Explores a Feral World Untamed by Geography

Descend into London's Victorian Ice Wells

The Best New Wonders of July

cemeteries

Modern Mortality: A Q&A with "American Afterlife" Author Kate Sweeney

essential guide

Atlas Obscura's Guide to a Strange Summer in NYC

abandoned

The Soviet Lightning Machine Abandoned in a Russian Forest

libraries

Libraries on the Beach

deserts

Sing with the Sands

cemeteries

Forgotten Monuments of the American Revolution

notes from the field

All That Remains: A Haunting Gallery of Extinct Animals in Paris

pet cemeteries

Photographing Pet Cemeteries, A Dignified Death for Our Departed Pets