Heather Hausman

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2012

Writer, Editor, & NYC Field Agent - Hi there! I am a third-generation New Yorker, in love with the city's hidden history and neglected neighborhoods. Some of my other obsessions include the birth of cinema, optical toys, hilarious disasters from Old Hollywood, and all things animal-related. I spent the past decade inexplicably drawn to the horrible case of Topsy, the elephant. It has left me squarely on Team Tesla.

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Places Added by Heather Hausman

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The exterior of the new store

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Chicago, Illinois

Wicker Park Secret Agent Supply Co.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Juliet's balcony

Verona, Italy

Juliet's Balcony

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Interior of the deli

Brooklyn, New York

Mill Basin Kosher Delicatessen

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Falmouth, Massachusetts

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi’s Grave

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

Museum of Unnatural History

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District of Columbia

Museum of Unnatural History

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

Ann Arbor’s Fairy Doors

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor’s Fairy Doors

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

The Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair interior

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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

Triangle shirtwaist fire

Brooklyn, New York

The Evergreens Cemetery

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

The Brooklyn Theatre Fire obelisk.

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Theatre Fire Memorial

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

St. Raymond's Cemetery

Bronx, New York

St. Raymond’s Cemetery

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Pratt Institute Engine Room

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Brooklyn, New York

Pratt Institute Engine Room

Haven for steampunks.

'Body of Saint Valentine'

Glasgow, Scotland

St. Valentine’s Bones

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

The bones are artfully displayed.

Prague, Czechia

St. Valentine’s Shoulder Blade

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

Rat Island

Bronx, New York

Rat Island

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

Plane in Hangar B

Brooklyn, New York

Floyd Bennett Field

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

Some of the birds' Green-Wood relatives

Brooklyn, New York

Monk Parakeets of Brooklyn College

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

Meserole Theatre Rite Aid's disco ball

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Brooklyn, New York

Meserole Theatre

Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.

Boardwalk Empire set

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Brooklyn, New York

Boardwalk Empire Set

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

View of Masstransiscope

Brooklyn, New York

Masstransiscope

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.