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asdonkar

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2013

Freelance photographer, holder of season tickets to the University of North Carolina baseball and women's basketball teams, Master of Library Science, civil servant. I like rock music, sweet tea, pedal steel played well, Fuji 1600 ISO film, the Band & the Rolling Stones, vintage dresses, HOKA trail runners, my Chippewa motorcycle boots, old rangefinders and Holgas, North Carolina beaches, pitching and defense, Gunnar Henderson, and chili cheese hotdogs.
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  • Death & the Dark
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  • Moscow
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Chill forest

Santa Fe, New Mexico

House of Eternal Return

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Totoro stares out

Mitaka, Japan

Ghibli Museum

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Vampire Killing Kit
Permanently Closed

Paris, France

Museum of Vampires

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Stickball Hall of Fame

New York, New York

Stickball Hall of Fame

Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

The remains of Riverside Hospital at North Brother Island

Bronx, New York

North Brother Island

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Fairy Pools.

Isle of Skye, Scotland

Fairy Pools

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Entrance to Bohemian National Cemetery. (Wikimedia Commons)

Chicago, Illinois

Bohemian National Cemetery

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Idaho City

Idaho City, Idaho

Idaho City

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Los Angeles Zoo Botanical Gardens

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles Zoo Botanical Gardens

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

The glass sparkles in the sun

Los Angeles, California

Phantasma Gloria

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

The Corner Bar and Hot Dog Hall of Fame

Rockford, Michigan

The Corner Bar and Hot Dog Hall of Fame

With over 5,000 champions, the Hall of Fame continues to draw amateur eaters.

Japadog

Vancouver, British Columbia

Japadog

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

The Enchanted Forest

Malakwa, British Columbia

The Enchanted Forest

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

Full Tilt Ice Cream and Pinball Arcade

Seattle, Washington

Full Tilt Ice Cream and Pinball Arcade

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

The Ice Mountain bobsled roller coaster.

Turner, Oregon

Enchanted Forest

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Old Idaho Penitentiary. (DieselDemon/Flickr)

Boise, Idaho

Old Idaho State Penitentiary

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

Albertsons Stadium

Boise, Idaho

Albertsons Stadium

Boise State's stadium was the first non-green football field in the world.

One of the massive steel dragons.

Marshfield, Wisconsin

Jurustic Park

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

Merzbarn

Elterwater, England

Merzbarn

The sculptural remains of the last home of a legendary Dada artist.

Antelope Canyon

Page, Arizona

Antelope Canyon

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Svartifoss

Iceland

Svartifoss

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

Puzzlewood

Coleford, England

Puzzlewood

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Hollywood Forever

Los Angeles, California

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Tesla Coil

Los Angeles, California

Griffith Observatory’s Tesla Coil

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

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