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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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The Consulate

Atlanta, Georgia

The Consulate

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

Fantagraphics

Seattle, Washington

Fantagraphics

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Rock Hill's Poetree

Rock Hill, South Carolina

Rock Hill's Poetree

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

Milledge Fountain

Atlanta, Georgia

Milledge Fountain

After being inoperative for over half a century, this elaborate fountain in Atlanta's oldest park was restored to its former glory.

Dr. Bombay’s Underwater Tea Party

Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Bombay’s Underwater Tea Party

Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.

Breman Museum

Atlanta, Georgia

Breman Museum

The largest Jewish museum in the southeastern U.S. houses a permanent Holocaust exhibit emphasizing the strength of its survivors.

The Wren’s Nest

Atlanta, Georgia

The Wren’s Nest

The home of a 19th-century author who brought African-American folktales to the mainstream is now Atlanta’s oldest house museum.

Barbara H. Hartsfield and her chairs

Stone Mountain, Georgia

Collectible and Antique Chair Gallery

A semi-retired nurse’s record-setting collection of 3,000 tiny chairs.

Trakai Island Castle

Trakai, Lithuania

Trakai Island Castle

Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.

Statue

Bloomington, Illinois

Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn's Grave

A giant wooden statue of one of the greatest pitchers in 19th-century baseball.

Brunswick Monument

Geneva, Switzerland

Brunswick Monument

An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.

The Grand Hotel Wildbad stands in ruins today.

Innichen, Italy

Bagni Wildbad

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

Replica of Guttenberg's printing press.

Ohrid, North Macedonia

National Workshop For Handmade Paper

See how paper is made the old-fashioned way.

Abandoned Hotel Evropa

Oteshevo, North Macedonia

Abandoned Hotel Evropa

It's unclear what caused the fire that led to this opulent hotel's demise.

Eger Castle Replica Ruins

Pilisborosjenő, Hungary

Eger Castle Replica Ruins

Outside of Budapest, a reconstruction of a 16th-century fortress.

The Funkite Cemetery

Germantown, Pennsylvania

The Funkite Cemetery

Hidden behind an empty field resides this early 19th-century cemetery.

Wenckheim-kastély

Szabadkígyós, Hungary

Wenckheim-kastély

This castle was designed to have as many windows as there are days in the year.

Ix Art Park

Charlottesville, Virginia

Ix Art Park

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

Early Argus model camera - Argus A

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Argus Museum

One of the camera company's former manufacturing buildings is now a museum dedicated to its history.

Trying to show the different types of symbolic jets.

Vienna, Austria

Hochstrahlbrunnen

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.

San Sebastian Church

Manila, Philippines

San Sebastian Church

A church made of steel.

Sweeney Punch Bowl

Wheeling, West Virginia

Sweeney Punch Bowl

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

Hearse

Lynchburg, Virginia

Museums at Old City Cemetery

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

Pensacola Futuro House

Pensacola Beach, Florida

Pensacola Futuro House

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

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