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Eric Grundhauser

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Director of Programming, Atlas Obscura Membership. Eric heads up Atlas Obscura's membership program, hosting and producing shows that bring our curious world to life! He lives in Brooklyn with his comic book collection. His work has been featured on Slate, NPR, Vanity Fair, The AV Club, Motherboard, Smithsonian, and a bunch of other places where reasonable content is sold. Helluva guy. Have any issues? eric@atlasobscura.com
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Le Comptoir Général

Paris, France

Le Comptoir Général

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Bell Museum of Natural History

Falcon Heights, Minnesota

Bell Museum

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

Graffiti Hall of Fame

New York, New York

Graffiti Hall of Fame

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

Cole Museum of Zoology

Reading, England

Cole Museum of Zoology

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

New York City Fire Museum

New York, New York

New York City Fire Museum

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

U Thant Island

New York, New York

U Thant Island

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

Vanderbilt Tennis Club in Grand Central Terminal

New York, New York

Vanderbilt Tennis Club

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.

Çatalhöyük

Çumra, Turkey

Çatalhöyük

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.

Bowerman's Nose

Newton Abbot, England

Bowerman's Nose

The legend says that this English rock formation was once a hunter who was turned to stone by annoyed witches.

Magic Forest

Lake George, New York

Magic Forest

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

Dresden Frauenkirche

Dresden, Germany

Dresden Frauenkirche

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

Múli

Bordoy, Faroe Islands

Múli

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

Pandemonium Aviaries

Menlo Park, California

Pandemonium Aviaries

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

Wilhelm Bauer

Bremerhaven, Germany

Wilhelm Bauer

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

Noble–Seymour–Crippen House

Chicago, Illinois

Noble–Seymour–Crippen House

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

95th Street Bridge

Chicago, Illinois

95th Street Bridge

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

Laboe Naval Memorial

Laboe, Germany

Laboe Naval Memorial

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

Rothschild Patent Museum

Wilmington, Delaware

Rothschild Patent Model Collection

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine

London, England

Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

U-534

Birkenhead, England

U-534

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

The Helicopter Museum

Weston-super-Mare, England

The Helicopter Museum

The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.

Kristallhütte

Kaltenbach, Austria

Kristallhütte

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

U-505

Chicago, Illinois

U-505

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls

Rome, Italy

Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

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