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Donna McColl

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2018

Armchair traveller turned global roamer. Lover of history, art and adventure travel. Rock & ice climber, alpine & nordic skier. Wife, mother and firm believer in the people-before-things lifestyle.

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Castle of Roccascalegna

Roccascalegna, Italy

Castle of Roccascalegna

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

The pulleys

Agion Oros, Greece

Hermitages of Karoulia

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

Shoufuku Tanuki - Happiness and fortune

Tokyo, Japan

Tanuki Street

A tiny street lined with eleven distinct Tanuki statues, each representing a different wish.

Detail of the time capsule boxes.

Madrid, Spain

Caja de las Letras

A vault of safe-deposit boxes in an old bank has been repurposed as a time capsule of Hispanic culture.

Climbing walls reaching to the high ceilings of the church.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Alien Rock

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

Gasometer Town

Vienna, Austria

Gasometer Town

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Redpath Museum

Montreal, Québec

Redpath Museum

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

Poza Azul the end view.

Cuatrociénegas, Mexico

Poza Azul

A spectrum of colors awaits visitors to one of Mexico's most gorgeous bodies of water.

L'Anse Aux Meadows.

Saint Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland and Labrador

L'Anse Aux Meadows

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

An iceberg drifts down Iceberg Alley.

Newfoundland and Labrador

Iceberg Alley

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

Caves of Diros

Pirgos Dirou, Greece

Caves of Diros

This cave complex might provide a link between the Neolithic and the Classical Greek period.

The octopus slide.

Victoria, British Columbia

Cadboro-Gyro Park

Home to an octopus slide and a humorous playground-sized cryptid.

Via dei Presepi

Naples, Italy

Via dei Presepi

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

Westward view.

Hong Kong

Hopewell Centre Observation Elevators

Glass-fronted lifts give riders panoramic views of the skyline and the sensation of floating above Hong Kong.

Carcross Desert

Carcross, Yukon

Carcross Desert

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

Charlevoix Stained Glass Windows

Montreal, Québec

Charlevoix Stained Glass Windows

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

Norderstraße Cat Scavenger Hunt

Flensburg, Germany

Norderstraße Cat Scavenger Hunt

Search the street for hidden cats, all up to different kinds of mischief.

The neon sign as it was represented on Seinfeld.

New York, New York

Tom's Restaurant

The "Seinfeld" diner.

The Millennial Olive of Arroyo Carnicero

Casabermeja, Spain

Millennial Olive of Arroyo Carnicero

This surreal-looking tree pruned more than 1,000 years ago is still producing olives for oil.

Heart’s Content Cable Station

Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador

Heart’s Content Cable Station

The historic Newfoundland outpost where the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable made landfall.

Audrey Hepburn Gloves

Point Leamington, Newfoundland and Labrador

The Canadian Glove Museum

A quirky museum showcasing gloves from movie stars to moonwalkers, plus a behind-the-scenes factory tour.

Steel coffin

London, England

St Bride's Church & Charnel House

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Douaumont Ossuary

Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France

Douaumont Ossuary

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

San Bernardino alle Ossa

Milan, Italy

San Bernardino alle Ossa

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

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