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Andreas Rekdal

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2025

Content operations lead at Atlas Obscura. Love a road trip.

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Places Andreas Rekdal Recommends

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Dead Horse Point

Photo: Dave Ash

Utah

Dead Horse Point

AO Original

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Campus Theatre

This single-screen Art Deco theater in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania opened its doors in 1941.

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Entrance to Hulen

Bergen, Norway

Hulen in Bergen

This student-run nightclub was originally a World War II bomb shelter.

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Leaning Tower of Niles

Niles, Illinois

Leaning Tower of Niles

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

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Hot Springs Mammoth Site

Hot Springs, South Dakota

Mammoth Site

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

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Potash evaporation ponds

Moab, Utah

Potash Evaporation Ponds

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.