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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 cemetery is small and walled.

Jekyll Island, Georgia

DuBignon Cemetery

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

Winter Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA 10/9/2021

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Winter Mausoleum

An imposing pair of sphinxes stand guard outside this Egyptian Revival tomb.

The Den of Nargun when water is scarce.

Iguana Creek, Australia

Den of Nargun

Mind the rock monster at this cave.

Awhum Waterfall cave

Ohum, Nigeria

Awhum Waterfall and Cave

The waters of these secluded falls are said to have healing powers.

Agbokim Waterfall

Obokum, Nigeria

Agbokim Waterfall

Seven streams tumble over a cliff, resulting in this dazzling waterfall in the Nigerian rainforest.

Taxidermied bears in the main hall.

Degersheim, Switzerland

Dreamfactory's World of Wonders

A Swiss magician's vault of oddities.

Owls still keep watch over the bar.

Baltimore, Maryland

The Owl Bar

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

The cemetery and mausoleum includes burials aboveground and below.

New York, New York

Trinity Church Cemetery & Mausoleum

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

Coffee Pot Art Studio Gallery.
Permanently Closed

Lexington, Virginia

The Coffee Pot

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

Pine Forest Cemetery

Wilmington, North Carolina

Pine Forest Cemetery

For more than 150 years, this cemetery has served as the final resting place for many members of Wilmington's Black community.

Pamlico River at Sunset.

Washington, North Carolina

North Carolina Estuarium

A museum dedicated to a unique ecosystem.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Flat Rock, North Carolina

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

World Methodist Museum in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. (Amanda Riera-Gomez)

Lake Junaluska, North Carolina

World Methodist Museum

Largest display of Wesleyana anywhere in the world.

Art Deco butter churn sculpture

Raleigh, North Carolina

Pine State Creamery Butter Churn

A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

Inside the pachinko parlor.
Permanently Closed

Wilmington, North Carolina

Pachinko World

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

Burton Street Community Peace Gardens.

Asheville, North Carolina

Peace Gardens & Market

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

Side of Chapel.

Fort Mill, South Carolina

Upper Room Chapel

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

Greek Revival Folk Art Chicken Coop

Greenville, South Carolina

Greek Revival Folk Art Chicken Coop

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

Tiny Town of Easley

Easley, South Carolina

Tiny Town of Easley

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

Colorado Antique Gallery

Littleton, Colorado

Colorado Antique Gallery

This gallery is home to everything from antiques, to ancient tribal masks.

Teampall Bheanáin

Killeany, Ireland

Teampall Bheanáin

A diminutive, thousand-year-old church believed to be the smallest in Ireland.

An elegant toilet on display.

Gmunden, Austria

Klo & So Museum of Historic Sanitary Objects

These are probably the most beautifully crafted toilets you've ever seen.

Rickwood Caverns

Warrior, Alabama

Rickwood Caverns

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

The gargoyle photographer

Palencia, Spain

The Photographer Gargoyle

The camera-toting gargoyle juts out from the exterior of a Gothic cathedral.

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