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Jeff Wagg

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2013

Jeff is a writer, guide and presenter who has travelled the world with groups of curious people and is always happy to find something unusual. He is the Head Agent of the Illinois Obscura Society. He current lives with his wife in Chicago.
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Places I've been

Places this traveler has marked as been there.

The baby flying monkeys at the back of One Main

Burlington, Vermont

Flying Monkey Sculptures

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

Chapel interior.

St. Johnsbury, Vermont

Dog Chapel

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium

St. Johnsbury, Vermont

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

A not-quite-exact replica of Michelangelo's Pieta. (Wikimedia Commons)

Barre, Vermont

Hope Cemetery

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

Emily's Bridge in Stowe, VT

Stowe, Vermont

Emily’s Bridge

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

The public toilets could get quite crowded.

Selçuk, Turkey

The Public Toilets of Ephesus

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

Yerkes Observatory

Williams Bay, Wisconsin

Yerkes Observatory

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

North Avenue Baths Facade

Chicago, Illinois

North Avenue Baths Facade

Former bath house turns gastropub.

Puerto Rican Flag Sculptures

Chicago, Illinois

Puerto Rican Flag Sculptures

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

Silky O'Sullivan's

Memphis, Tennessee

Silky O'Sullivan's

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

City Museum

St. Louis, Missouri

City Museum

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Boggy Creek Monster

Fouke, Arkansas

Boggy Creek Monster

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

Ace of Clubs House

Texarkana, Texas

Ace of Clubs House

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Crowds gather to watch the bats fly out as the sun sets.

Austin, Texas

Congress Bridge Bats

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Main entrance to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas. The statue is of George Erath, Texas Ranger and surveyor of the Waco townsite. (Wikimedia Commons)

Waco, Texas

Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

The artesian bottling factory that now houses the Dr Pepper Museum.

Waco, Texas

Dr Pepper Museum

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Blythe Intaglios

Blythe, California

Blythe Intaglios

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

A medium gray rock on the desert floor, with a trail in the dirt behind it showing how the rock has moved.

Inyo County, California

Sailing Stones of Racetrack Playa

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Blue Mustang

Denver, Colorado

Blue Mustang

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Train station

Beatty, Nevada

Rhyolite Ghost Town

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Weird red landscape in the canyon

Las Vegas, Nevada

Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Stanley Hotel at sunrise.

Estes Park, Colorado

The Stanley Hotel

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Kennecott Utah Copper-Bingham Canyon Mine

Herriman, Utah

Kennecott Utah Copper-Bingham Canyon Mine

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Statue of the sculptor himself, Thomas Battersby Child, Jr.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Gilgal Sculpture Garden

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

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