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A.M. Brune

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2016

Since 2001, A.M. Brune has reported and written hundreds of freelance newspaper, magazine and website articles – from pitch to print – for publications, such as the New Yorker, The Guardian, the New York Times, The Nation, Atlas Obscura and others on a variety of topics, including world affairs, social justice, human rights and culture. Brune has also worked as a press officer at the United Nations and an associate editor for the UN Yearbook, an annual chronicle of all things UN. Brune holds a BS in Journalism from Northwestern University and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University in the City of New York. She often brings along a camera on assignments and is known to shoot her own photos.
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The Mail Rail

London, England

The Mail Rail

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

The Deadhouse

London, England

The Deadhouse

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

Hi!
Permanently Closed

London, England

Slate Cafe

If your school was decorated with trippy graffiti, served ambrosial coffee, and was frequented by mimes, it might have been similar to this groovy cafe.

Replicas of the original effigies to Bastet.

London, England

Black Cats of Carreras Cigarette Factory

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

A circular outline marks the underground location of the Roman amphitheater

London, England

Guildhall's Underground Roman Amphitheater

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

The Cockpit

London, England

The Cockpit

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Steel coffin

London, England

St Bride's Church & Charnel House

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon in its new location in 2020

London, England

Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Giants of St. Dunstan-in-the-West

London, England

Giants of St. Dunstan-in-the-West

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

The Old Curiosity Shop

London, England

The Old Curiosity Shop

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Tunnels of Euston.

London, England

Euston's Lost Tunnels

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

Camera Museum.

London, England

Camera Museum

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

The Gilded vectors of disease facade.

London, England

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Vectors of Disease Frieze

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

A collection of Methodist artifacts.

London, England

Museum of Methodism

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

Fasinus tintinnabulum

London, England

Wellcome Collection & Library

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Some of the Lewis Chessmen.

London, England

The Lewis Chessmen

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

The Shield of Parade

London, England

Shield of Parade

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

The tombstone found at St. Paul's Cathedral, carved in the classic Ringerike style.

London, England

Viking Tombstone

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

Hidden Cells of Newgate Prison

London, England

Hidden Cells of Newgate Prison

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

The Barbican Conservatory's Arid House.

London, England

Barbican Conservatory

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

The bell.

London, England

St. Sepulchre's Execution Bell

On the eve of a condemned prisoner's death, this bell rang 12 times outside their cell.

Hoa Hakananai'a.

London, England

Hoa Hakananai'a

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Sir John Soane's Museum

London, England

Sir John Soane's Museum

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Mahatma Gandhi (Fredda Brilliant, 1968).

London, England

Peace Garden at Tavistock Square

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

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