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Johan SWE

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2020

Based in Malmö, southern Sweden.

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Each house in Burj Al Babas has a rounded turret like a storybook castle.

Mudurnu, Turkey

Burj Al Babas

The only residents of this abandoned housing development full of identical castles are stray cats and dogs.

Popeye Village

Mellieħa, Malta

Popeye Village

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast/Museum

Fall River, Massachusetts

Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast and Museum

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The rumour of discord

Madrid, Spain

‘The Rumour of Discord’

A “floating horse” hangs menacingly over the heads of passersby.

'Totem'

Leuven, Belgium

'Totem'

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

A 1992 blurry image of a woman.

Bélmez de la Moraleda, Spain

Bélmez Faces

Mysterious face-like images that appeared within an Andalusian house are surrounded by legends of the paranormal.

Frankie the Chrome Gnome

Langwarrin, Australia

Frankie the Chrome Gnome

A 9-metre tall reflective steel statue of a garden gnome crafted by Gregor Kregar, a New Zealand-Serbian artist.

Hope Cathedral

Fredrikstad, Norway

Hope Cathedral

A floating interfaith chapel made from ocean plastic.

Rubber Tyre Duck

Nikolai, Sweden

Rubber Tyre Duck

A rubber duck made out of a decidedly different kind of rubber.

The Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art

Brussels, Belgium

The Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Enfield Poltergeist House

Enfield, England

Enfield Poltergeist House

A council house in England where ghostly activity was reported in the 1970s.

Old locomotive a blue, angry face awaits on the tracks with the railway station in the background

Yerevan, Armenia

Children's Railway

These ruins of a Soviet children's railway station have a haunted atmosphere.

The exterior of STRAAT.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

STRAAT

The world’s largest street art museum.

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History

London, England

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This elevator is still considered a technical marvel.

Hanover, Germany

Kuppelaufzug

This feat of German engineering is one of the only elevators in the world following a curved path.

The Oddities Museum

Chamblee, Georgia

The Oddities Museum

A celebration of one man’s obsession to collect the strangest items imaginable.

Tito's Blue Train in Belgrade train station.

Belgrade, Serbia

Tito's Blue Train

Ride in 1960s style on the private luxury train Marshal Josip Tito used to travel around Yugoslavia.

Paranormal Roadtripper's Nightmare Gallery

Somerset, Kentucky

Paranormal Roadtripper's Nightmare Gallery

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

Attabad Lake in 2016.

Hunza Nagar, Pakistan

Attabad Lake

This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.

Bayterek Tower

Astana, Kazakhstan

Bayterek Tower

A modern tower, symbolizing the legend of a golden egg on top of the tree of life.

Wave Rock

Hyden, Australia

Wave Rock

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

Balls Pyramid

Australia

Ball's Pyramid

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

Gippsland Lakes Bioluminescence

Raymond Island, Australia

Gippsland Lakes Bioluminescence

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

Helensburgh Glowworm Tunnel.

Helensburgh, Australia

Glowworm Tunnel

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

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