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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Join the Crew of NYC's Best-Kept Nautical Secret, Yankee Ferry

ships

Join the Crew of NYC's Best-Kept Nautical Secret, Yankee Ferry

The Best New Wonders of June

The Best New Wonders of June

Objects of Intrigue: Look Radiant in Radium

objects of intrigue

Objects of Intrigue: Look Radiant in Radium

Our World Heritage in Peril

unesco

Our World Heritage in Peril

Stairway to Heaven: Life After Death for the Mysterious Gustave Moreau

museums

Stairway to Heaven: Life After Death for the Mysterious Gustave Moreau

Pet headstone.

pet cemeteries

Left No Ball Unchased: Endearing Epitaphs in America's Oldest Pet Cemetery

Essential Guide to Waking Nightmares

mummies

Essential Guide to Waking Nightmares

The Library That Put Readers in Cages

libraries

The Library That Put Readers in Cages

Objects of Intrigue: Chopin's Immortal Hands

objects of intrigue

Objects of Intrigue: Chopin's Immortal Hands

Corpse road between Wasdale & Eskdale in England's Lake District.

medieval

Take Your Dead to These Old Corpse Roads

Mourn ‘til you can’t no more.

Double Sunsets and Peasants with Pitchforks in the Trials of 18th Century Balloonists

science

Double Sunsets and Peasants with Pitchforks in the Trials of 18th Century Balloonists

Book Towns: Where Reading Is the Reason to Live

libraries

Book Towns: Where Reading Is the Reason to Live

Ruins of a Human Zoo at the Forgotten Edge of Paris

abandoned

Ruins of a Human Zoo at the Forgotten Edge of Paris

Feel like a Monster at These 10 Tiny Towns

miniatures

Feel like a Monster at These 10 Tiny Towns

Bats and Vampiric Lore in Père Lachaise Cemetery

cemeteries

Bats and Vampiric Lore in Père Lachaise Cemetery

Reading in Restraint: The Last Chained Libraries

libraries

Reading in Restraint: The Last Chained Libraries

The Most Beautiful Anatomical Theaters

medical museums

The Most Beautiful Anatomical Theaters

What Happens to a Cemetery After Foreclosure?

cemeteries

What Happens to a Cemetery After Foreclosure?

Secret Libraries of New York City

libraries

Secret Libraries of New York City

14 hidden repositories of knowledge.

On the Road to Nowhere: Abandoned Bridges

abandoned

On the Road to Nowhere: Abandoned Bridges

Safety through Singing with Musical Roads

music

Safety through Singing with Musical Roads

Long Abandoned Clock Tower is Returning to Life in Queens

mechanical instruments

Long Abandoned Clock Tower is Returning to Life in Queens

New York City's Secret Places of Silence

secret

New York City's Secret Places of Silence

On Holiday with the Dark Lord: The World's Most Metal Places

skulls

On Holiday with the Dark Lord: The World's Most Metal Places