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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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  • Montreal
  • Moscow
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  • Philadelphia
  • Rome
  • San Diego
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Order your fried treats to go.

Athens, Greece

Krinos

This century-old, family-run bakery specializes in loukoumades, a Greek doughnut once served to ancient Olympians.

Biting into a momiji no tempura (fried maple leaf) is like tasting autumn itself.

Minoh, Japan

Momotaro

Try maple leaf tempura at the trailside shop that brought it back from oblivion.

Take a walk through Beatnik history.

San Francisco, California

Jack Kerouac Alley

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.

Rievaulx Abbey

Rievaulx, England

Rievaulx Abbey

This 11th-century Cistercian abbey was once seized by Henry VIII.

Gone With the Wind Museum

Marietta, Georgia

Gone With the Wind Museum

This 19th-century building showcases memorabilia from the acclaimed 1939 film.

Cape Henry Memorial Cross

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Cape Henry Memorial Cross

Jamestown may have been the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, but the colonists made landfall at a lesser known cape.

From the entrance.

Cork, Ireland

Temple Hill Cemetery in Ballintemple

Both Catholic and Protestant graves dot this 17th-century burial ground.

Castle Mound.

Cambridge, England

Castle Mound

This hill is all that remains of Cambridge’s former castle.

Rifle Falls would look right at home in the Pacific Northwest.

Rifle, Colorado

Rifle Falls

You might want to bring a rain jacket to this travertine triple waterfall.

Tobacco museum.

Durham, North Carolina

Duke Homestead

The birthplace of a tobacco empire.

Futuro House No. 001

Espoo, Finland

Futuro House No. 001

Visit Finnish architect Matti Suuronen's first UFO-shaped home.

The Oddities Museum

Chamblee, Georgia

The Oddities Museum

A celebration of one man’s obsession to collect the strangest items imaginable.

 Visitors enjoy the views of Torrey Pines Cliffs.

La Jolla, California

Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve

A dramatic coastline that’s home to a rare pine tree.

This deeply unsettling memorial is built out of the wall where 150 people were slaughtered.

Paris, France

'Victims of Revolutions'

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

The World's Longest Rainbow Road In Toronto, Canada.

Toronto, Ontario

World’s Largest Rainbow Road

A 2,000-foot rainbow-painted bike path marks Toronto’s historic LGBTQ+ beach.

The Glimmer Twins

Kent, England

The Glimmer Twins

Two members of the Rolling Stones frozen forever in bronze.

Mama Mimi is a 35-foot troll created by artist Thomas Dambo and made from recycled materials

Wilson, Wyoming

Mama Mimi Sculpture (Giant Troll)

This 35-foot troll in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was made by the world’s leading recycling artist as part of a global fairytale.

This landscape in this park is truly striking.

Quitaque, Texas

Caprock Canyon State Park

Welcome to a starkly beautiful sanctuary where the buffalo roam.

‘Black Holocaust Memorial’

Savannah, Georgia

‘Black Holocaust Memorial’

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.

Chocolate dress.

Québec City, Québec

Musée du Chocolat

A chocolatier with a quaint museum showcasing the history of chocolate.

‘Take My Hand’

Cambridge, Maryland

‘Take My Hand’

This Harriet Tubman mural went viral for kids interacting with it.

Gróthúsvatn’s Witch Rock

Sandur, Faroe Islands

Gróthúsvatn’s Witch Rock

Every summer, women from this small Faroese island cover this specific stone with knitted graffiti.

Grover Cleveland Thompson worked on this masterpiece for more than two decades.

Phoenix, Arizona

Sunnyslope Rock Garden

This trippy wonderland is the result of one man's obsessive, decades long passion project.

Don Parks’ Yard of Statues and Stuff

Phoenix, Arizona

Don Parks’ Yard of Statues and Stuff

Phoenix man has two yards full of vintage signs and antiques.

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