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Kevin OKeeffe

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2012

Born in Alabama, 1970. Lived in (primarily Northern) California, 1972-2011. Presently residing in eastern South Dakota.

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Cosmic Cavern

North, Arkansas

Cosmic Cavern

The warmest cave in the Ozarks features two seemingly bottomless lakes.

Hardware Store

Scenic, South Dakota

Scenic Ghost Town

The empty town of Scenic, South Dakota, is owned by a church in the Philippines.

Dakota Territorial Capitol Replica

Yankton, South Dakota

Dakota Territorial Capitol Replica

A humble reconstruction of the rather lively former capitol building.

Completed Japanese balloon is inflated for laboratory tests at a California base, recovered in 1945.

Omaha, Nebraska

Site of a Japanese Balloon Bomb Explosion

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

Surrender Field

Yorktown, Virginia

Surrender Field

The location where the American Revolution ended.

French Cemetery, Yorktown Battlefield

Yorktown, Virginia

French Cemetery

Mass grave of 50 unidentified French Soldiers who died at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, that gave victory to the American Revolution.

Moore House

Yorktown, Virginia

Moore House

This unassuming home played a pivotal role in American history, essentially putting an end to the Revolutionary War.

Jamestown Glasshouse

Williamsburg, Virginia

Jamestown Glasshouse

History says that America’s first English industrial manufacture began here with a “tryal of glasse.”

Historic First Baptist Church

Williamsburg, Virginia

Historic First Baptist Church

One of the oldest continuous congregations organized by Black Americans has been flourishing for nearly 250 years.

The King’s Arms Tavern

Williamsburg, Virginia

The King’s Arms Tavern

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Williamsburg Arboretum’s National Champion Trees

Williamsburg, Virginia

Williamsburg Arboretum’s National Champion Trees

Some of the largest trees of their kinds exist throughout Williamsburg’s historic core.

Monticello's Vegetable Garden and Fruitery

Charlottesville, Virginia

Monticello's Vegetable Garden and Fruitery

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The Archaearium

Williamsburg, Virginia

The Archaearium

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Late-model Grave Digger on display at the Digger's Dungeon.

Poplar Branch, North Carolina

Grave Digger's Dungeon

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Eastern State Hospital

Williamsburg, Virginia

Eastern State Hospital

America's first public mental health facility.

Bray School today.

Williamsburg, Virginia

Bray School

Colonial Williamsburg was home to one of the earliest institutions in North America dedicated to educating Black children.

Wren Hall and Lord Botetourt.

Williamsburg, Virginia

Lord Botetourt

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Gibson-Todd House

Charles Town, West Virginia

Gibson-Todd House

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

Hessian Barracks

Frederick, Maryland

Hessian Barracks

Historic barracks utilized during both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

Cannonball in Church Wall

Norfolk, Virginia

Cannonball in Saint Paul's Episcopal Church

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

'Navigator'

Norfolk, Virginia

'Navigator'

A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.

The two-story museum has over 3000 haunted objects.

Omaha, Nebraska

The Museum of Shadows

Haunted dolls, macabre artifacts, and more make up the collection of the “most haunted museum in the world.”

Jacksonville Interchange Spiral from above.

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville Interchange Spiral

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

Rota the lion at the Lightner Museum.

St. Augustine, Florida

Sir Winston Churchill's Lion 'Rota'

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

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