jonschubin

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2013

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Places I've been

Places this traveler has marked as been there.

Kronborg Castle. (Wikimedia Commons)

Helsingør, Denmark

Kronborg Castle (Elsinore)

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Linnahall

Tallinn, Estonia

Linnahall

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

The Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori- in the foreground, the house where Stalin was born

Gori, Georgia

Stalin Museum

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

Originally a high school, Tuol Seng was converted into a high security prison.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

Kuang Si Waterfalls

Ban Long, Laos

Kuang Si Waterfalls

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

The Elevators of Valparaiso

Valparaiso, Chile

Elevators of Valparaiso

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

Hand of the Desert

Chile

Hand of the Desert

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

The suspended entrance to the minaret (Commons Wikimedia)

Kyrgyzstan

Burana Tower

Lonely minaret stump of a destroyed city.