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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Curious Fact of the Week: The Raven That Inspired Poe

edgar allan poe

Curious Fact of the Week: The Raven That Inspired Poe

The Dance of Death

31 days of halloween

The Dance of Death

The Skull Tower of Serbia

31 days of halloween

The Skull Tower of Serbia

The Mysterious Murder of the Beautiful Cigar Girl

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The Mysterious Murder of the Beautiful Cigar Girl

The Bog Bodies

mummies

The Bog Bodies

Objects of Intrigue: The Atomic Bomb Toy

objects of intrigue

Objects of Intrigue: The Atomic Bomb Toy

The Curse of the Stolen Amethyst

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The Curse of the Stolen Amethyst

Is this gemstone responsible for more than a century of tragedy?

Revealing the Lost Synagogues of New York City

Revealing the Lost Synagogues of New York City

The Mummy Everyone Forgot Was Real

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The Mummy Everyone Forgot Was Real

Five Buildings Shaped Like Obsolete Technology

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Five Buildings Shaped Like Obsolete Technology

Curious Fact of the Week: A Mexican Cemetery Where the Dead Get an Annual Cleaning

curious fact of the week

Curious Fact of the Week: A Mexican Cemetery Where the Dead Get an Annual Cleaning

National Public Lands Day: Four of the Stunning Places You Can Help Preserve

National Public Lands Day: Four of the Stunning Places You Can Help Preserve

Photographing the Unseen in Haunted Houses

Photographing the Unseen in Haunted Houses

An 18th Century Guide to What Is Beautiful, From Candlesticks to Curls

An 18th Century Guide to What Is Beautiful, From Candlesticks to Curls

An Overstuffed Taxidermy Walrus Comes Home

An Overstuffed Taxidermy Walrus Comes Home

Curious Fact of the Week: The Largest Medieval Battle in Modern Times

curious fact of the week

Curious Fact of the Week: The Largest Medieval Battle in Modern Times

Unsung Codemakers: Celebrating the Contributions of Women in Computing

Unsung Codemakers: Celebrating the Contributions of Women in Computing

Objects of Intrigue: The Medieval Knight With a Chinese Sword, Who Was Once A Bridge

objects of intrigue

Objects of Intrigue: The Medieval Knight With a Chinese Sword, Who Was Once A Bridge

Awake in the Slumbering City: Photographs of Paris and London at Dawn

Awake in the Slumbering City: Photographs of Paris and London at Dawn

Videos from the Wanderlust School of Transgressive Placemaking

Videos from the Wanderlust School of Transgressive Placemaking

Five Destinations Where the Goat is King (or Mayor)

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Five Destinations Where the Goat is King (or Mayor)

Curious Fact of the Week: The Sinkholes of Guatemala City

Curious Fact of the Week: The Sinkholes of Guatemala City

Lost Wonders: The Cosmoplanetary Messiah

lost wonders

Lost Wonders: The Cosmoplanetary Messiah

The Magnificent Mud Architecture of Mali

The Magnificent Mud Architecture of Mali