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Edward Denny

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2018

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Follow travelers to discover remarkable places through their journeys.

My Travel Interests

  • Architecture & Design
  • Art & Creativity
  • Culture & Society
  • History & Conflict
  • Museums & Collections
  • Nature & Outdoors
  • Science & Technology

My Location Interests

  • London
  • Philadelphia
  • Washington, D.C.

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    West Virginia Destination Challenge

    West Virginia Visitor

    As part of the West Virginia Destination Challenge, this badge celebrates the beginning of your journey through West Virginia's remarkable places. Every place you mark brings you closer to discovering more of what makes the Mountain State unique.

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    As part of the West Virginia Destination Challenge, this badge celebrates your deeper exploration of West Virginia's remarkable places. Your journey has taken you beyond the highlights to uncover even more of what makes the Mountain State extraordinary.

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    Route 66 Exploration Challenge

    Ford's Route 66 Exploration Challenge

    You explored one of America's most iconic highways by marking at least three remarkable places along historic Route 66.

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    25 States Visited

    You've visited 25 U.S. states and are halfway to exploring all 50. Every state has its own hidden wonders, and you're well on your way to discovering them.

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Places I've been

Places this traveler has marked as been there.

Outside of the Museum.

Wytheville, Virginia

Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum

The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."

Goldie 71 as first installed, 2009

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Goldie 1971 - The Fallen Robot

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

The meteorite sitting on top of the console radio from the Hedges home.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

The Hodges Meteorite

The first space rock known to have struck a human.

Heaviest Corner on Earth 1993.

Birmingham, Alabama

Heaviest Corner on Earth

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

Douglas's marker in Cedar Hill Cemetery

Vicksburg, Mississippi

Grave of Douglas the Confederate Camel

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Much of the area has been impacted by agriculture and levee construction.  But the low lying location still holds water.

Delta, Louisiana

Grant's Canal

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

Half Price Books Flagship Store

Dallas, Texas

Half Price Books Flagship Store

A Texas-sized secondhand bookstore features 54,000 square feet of books, music, and media.

Lytton Springs General Store

Dale, Texas

Lytton Springs General Store

Constructed in 1859 as a general store and post office, the store is still used to this day and was featured in the Walking Dead series.

Steps to Mound A

Pioneer, Louisiana

Poverty Point World Heritage Site

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

R.W. Norton Art Gallery

Shreveport, Louisiana

R.W. Norton Art Gallery

Explore 4,000 years of European and American art history in the heart of northwest Louisiana.

Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books

Birmingham, Alabama

Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

This Statue of Liberty can be seen from a considerable distance.

Vestavia Hills, Alabama

Statue of Liberty Replica

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

The Gigantic Chair of Anniston

Anniston, Alabama

The Gigantic Chair of Anniston

What better place to take a seat?

Berman Museum of World History

Anniston, Alabama

Berman Museum of World History

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

Anniston Museum

Anniston, Alabama

Anniston Museum

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

Pan Man

South Pittsburg, Tennessee

Cast Iron Cookware Man

The pan man stands as a testament to the functionality of American cast iron cookware.

Silhouettes of bats flying around the Phoenix Bat Cave.

Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix Bat Cave

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

Topo

Gilbert, Arizona

Topo

A giant gopher perched on top of a pint-sized Mexican restaurant pays tribute to classic roadside architecture

The site of Tony DeMarco's Living Room.

Phoenix, Arizona

Tony DeMarco's Living Room

The site of a popular piano lounge owned by a former world champion boxer is now a place to rent a truck.

Marcos de Niza Inscription

Phoenix, Arizona

Marcos de Niza Inscription

A petroglyph purportedly left by the first European to enter Arizona

Wall Cycle to Ocotillo

Phoenix, Arizona

Wall Cycle to Ocotillo

Giant jars and pots littered alongside an Arizona freeway

View from across parking lot

Dallas, Texas

"The Storm" Dallas Arts District Mural

A wild-haired maestro surrenders to artistic passion in this multi-story mural.

Metallurgical Worker and Metallurgical Science Statues

Allentown, Pennsylvania

Metallurgical Worker and Metallurgical Science Statues

Bronze guardians of steel’s glory, now standing outside the Allentown Art Museum

Side view of the vertebra.

Toronto, Ontario

Queen's Quay Whale Vertebra

A massive fossil of unknown origins

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