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Chris Backe

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2013

Chris Backe (rhymes with 'hockey') is the blogger behind One Weird Globe, a travel blog that focuses on the weird, bizarre, unique, and offbeat destinations around the world. He's written dozens of itineraries and guidebooks, and been seen on Atlas Obscura, io9, Fark, and Mental Floss. He's lived in South Korea, Thailand, and traveled across Europe, North America, South America, and parts of northern Africa.
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Barter Books.

Alnwick, England

Barter Books

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

The many, many necktie pieces on display.

Oxford, England

The Bear Inn

This centuries-old pub boasts a collection of more than 4,500 snippets of neckties from around the world.

National Museum of Computing

Bletchley, England

National Museum of Computing

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

The flute-playing rat.

Deal, England

Deal Maritime and Local History Museum

A jumble of treasures in a small space, this old-fashioned local museum is full of surprises.

Replica of the 7-foot telescope Herschel used to discover Uranus.

Bath, England

Herschel Museum of Astronomy

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

Twinings tea shop on the Strand.

London, England

Twinings Tea Shop

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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