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IronQueen

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Traveling for 75-80% of the year and living the dream ✨🛩 I’m a huge Altas Obscura Fan and depend on the app to find fun and unusual things.

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Places this traveler has marked as been there.

The Center of the Universe, Tulsa OK.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Center of the Universe

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

Sliding Rock

Pisgah Forest, North Carolina

Sliding Rock

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Looking Glass Rock seen from the Looking Glass Rock Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Brevard, North Carolina

Looking Glass Rock

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

Brevard White Squirrels

Brevard, North Carolina

Brevard White Squirrels

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Breakfast Room hidden door.

Asheville, North Carolina

Biltmore Estate's Secret Passages

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

West Point Lighthouse at Fort Lawton (Discovery Park).

Seattle, Washington

Fort Lawton

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

The narrower (southern) lock.  Looking west.

Seattle, Washington

Hiram M. Chittenden Locks

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A Cold War relic and Seattle historical landmark

Seattle, Washington

Phinney Park Air Raid Tower

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

Bridal Veil Falls

Chilliwack, British Columbia

Bridal Veil Falls

Cascading outward, this waterfall creates the appearance of a flowing veil.

Salmagundi West
Permanently Closed

Vancouver, British Columbia

Salmagundi West

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

Jimi Hendrix Shrine from the front
Permanently Closed

Vancouver, British Columbia

Jimi Hendrix Shrine

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Garden - Maple Hall Courtyard.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

"Gassy Jack."
Permanently Closed

Vancouver, British Columbia

'Gassy Jack' Statue

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

Digital Orca

Vancouver, British Columbia

Digital Orca

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

The Gastown steam clock

Vancouver, British Columbia

Gastown Steam Clock

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A sampling of the shop’s exquisite fascinators and hats

Vancouver, British Columbia

Granville Island Hat Shop

A hat for every occasion can be found in this British Columbia haunt.

WWII Coast Artillery Search Lights at Tower Beach.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Point Grey Battery Ruins

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

Point Roberts.

Point Roberts, Washington

Point Roberts

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Cow Barn At Northern State Hospital Farm.

Sedro-Woolley, Washington

Northern State Hospital Farm

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

The Great White Rock

White Rock, British Columbia

The Great White Rock

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

Poor Mathew.

Bellingham, Washington

Fairhaven Historic Markers

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

Howe Art
Permanently Closed

Eastsound, Washington

Howe Art

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

Whale Museum

Friday Harbor, Washington

Whale Museum

Orcas on display and in the water.

Maiden of Deception Pass

Rosario Beach, Washington

The Maiden of Deception Pass

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

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