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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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Lion with a foot

Paris, France

Lion of The Botanical Gardens

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Deyrolle Taxidermy

Paris, France

Deyrolle Taxidermy

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

"The Lady and the Unicorn" tapestry

Paris, France

Musée de Cluny

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Statue of Liberty at Pont du Grenelle

Paris, France

Statue of Liberty at Pont de Grenelle

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Musee de la Magie

Paris, France

Musee de la Magie

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Clément Ader's Avion III

Paris, France

Musée des Arts et Métiers

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy - mammoth and Lascaux paintings

Paris, France

Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Museum of the History of Medicine

Paris, France

Museum of the History of Medicine

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Av.Rapp - Immeuble Lavirotte

Paris, France

Jules Lavirotte’s 29 Avenue Rapp

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

Balcony View

Glasgow, Scotland

Britannia Panopticon Music Hall

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

Paris - Métro Gare de Lyon

Paris, France

Gare de Lyon Métro Exotic Garden

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

Front entrance.

Cardiff, Wales

Spillers Records

The world's oldest continuously operating record shop has been in Cardiff since 1894.

Sentinel Works

Glasgow, Scotland

Sentinel Works

One of the first reinforced-concrete buildings built in the UK, now abandoned.

Lisbon Falls

Blyde, South Africa

Lisbon Falls

The tallest waterfall in the region is named after a capital far, far away.

Image of Dum-Dum Water Tower in Bryan, Ohio

Bryan, Ohio

Dum-Dum Water Tower

This towering sweet treat is big enough to share... with an entire city.

‘Way to Go’

Malmö, Sweden

‘Way to Go’

A bronze sculpture on a bridge, of the shoes of 29 famous Malmöites.

A spectacle from Spectre, this movie prop is spectacular in person

Sölden, Austria

007 Elements

A mountaintop museum of Bond props, sets, and cinematic secrets.

Rundkappelenplatz

Nuremberg, Germany

Rundkappelenplatz

This modest German chapel has been in use for more than 1000 years.

World’s Largest Watermelon Sculpture

Muscatine, Iowa

World’s Largest Watermelon Sculpture

A colossal watermelon slice celebrating Muscatine’s sweet agricultural heritage.

Haunted Candle Shoppe of the Poconos

Swiftwater, Pennsylvania

Haunted Candle Shoppe of the Poconos

A candle shop hiding a haunted basement once used as a monkey research lab.

The First Map of the United States

Washington, D.C.

The First Map of the United States

This map, on display in the Library of Congress, and one of only seven known to exist, is the very first map of the United States.

Hartwood Acres Pet Cemetery

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Hartwood Acres Pet Cemetery

A hidden pet cemetery honors the generations of canine companions from one of Pittsburgh's most famous estates.

Fallen David

Fullerton, California

Fallen David

A statue destroyed by a 1987 earthquake lies in pieces on a university campus.

One of the diaries displayed

Pieve Santo Stefano, Italy

Piccolo Museo Del Diario (Little Museum of Diaries)

A museum dedicated to highlighting the extraordinary in ordinary lives.

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