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Cris Hellwig

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2025

Wandering the world with a camera in hand, I’m drawn to the overlooked corners and forgotten alleys of cities. Places where stories linger quietly, just beyond the guidebooks. I seek the beauty in the unnoticed and the character in the hidden, always in search of the soul of a place that lies just off the well-trodden path.

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Nazi Bunkers, Houvig Beach, Denmark.

Ringkøbing, Denmark

Hvide Sande Nazi Bunkers

Remnants of the Nazis' occupation of Denmark linger along the sand.

Legoland Billund

Billund, Denmark

Legoland in Billund

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

Lyhdynkantajat (The Lantern Bearers)

Helsinki, Finland

Lyhdynkantajat (The Lantern Bearers)

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

Entrance to the Building

Helsinki, Finland

Pohjola Insurance Building

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

Original location.

Helsinki, Finland

Bad Bad Boy

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

Tallinn Black Angus Sculpture

Tallinn, Estonia

Tallinn Black Angus Sculpture

A unique sculpture calls the outside of this steakhouse home.

Old Thomas

Tallinn, Estonia

Old Thomas

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The exterior of Raeapteek

Tallinn, Estonia

Raeapteek

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

Tunis Medina, Tunis.

Tunis, Tunisia

Tunis Medina

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

Teutonic Cemetery

Città del Vaticano, Vatican City

Teutonic Cemetery

The secret centuries-old German cemetery in the heart of the Vatican.

Campanile di Curon

Schnals, Italy

Campanile di Curon

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

Vatican City walls.

Vatican City

Vatican City Walls

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

View along the Tank Trap

Graun im Vinschgau, Italy

Plamort Tank Trap

A 1930s defensive fortification designed to protect Italy from a German invasion.

Lady Agnes

Gollenberg, Germany

Lady Agnes

Visitors can tour this retired East German jetliner, and even get married inside.

Overall view of Bains Dunkerquois

Dunkerque, France

Bains Dunkerquois

A ghostly and forgotten art deco bathhouse by the windy shore of Dunkirk, weathered but still standing.

If you can do the steep stairs safely, the upper view is worth it

Echternach, Luxembourg

Wollefsschlucht (Wolf Gorge)

In the heart of Luxembourg's "little Switzerland" weaves a breathtaking natural sandstone canyon with a mythological past.

The courtyard.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Oost-Indisch Huis

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

Row of old houses with the narrow Kleine Trippenhuis or "Little Trip House" on Kloveniersburgwal canal.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Kleine Trippenhuis

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

Smedenpoort Skull

Bruges, Belgium

Smedenpoort Skull

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

Juan Manuel Fangio Statue

Monaco

Juan Manuel Fangio Statue

This statue of the great Argentinian car driver is located near a famous curve of the Monaco Grand Prix.

The Tale of the Scale and the Skull

Berlin, Germany

The Tale of the Scale and the Skull

This sprawling stone mosaic on Berlin’s Museum Island transforms archaeological finds and local legends into a walkable work of art.

Close up of some of the 40,000 padlocks of love.

Cologne, Germany

Cologne's Love Locks Bridge

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Some of the cacti are over a decade old.

Ses Salines, Spain

Toni Moreno’s Cactus Nursery

Thousands of rare and sculptural desert plants are cultivated in a surreal, open-air landscape unlike anything else on Mallorca.

Time and Space

Ibiza, Spain

Time and Space

A striking circle of basalt columns perched on Ibiza’s rugged western coast, aligning art, astronomy, and myth in a landscape where time seems to stand still.

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