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Gretzky

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2015

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Baldwin Street

Dunedin, New Zealand

Baldwin Street Houses

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Pancake Rocks

Punakaiki, New Zealand

Pancake Rocks

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor, Cambodia.

Siem Reap, Cambodia

Ta Prohm

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Phnom Penh Memorial Stupa

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Phnom Penh Memorial Stupa

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

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.

The gallery of maps, showing the ceiling

Vatican City

Gallery of Maps - Galleria delle Carte Geografiche

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Vatican Necropolis.

Vatican City

Vatican Necropolis

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

Campo de Fiori

Rome, Italy

Campo de Fiori

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The apse with the Christ Pantocrator.

Palermo, Italy

Cappella Palatina

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Ear of Dionysius

Syracuse, Italy

Ear of Dionysius

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Etna erupting in 2002.

Belpasso, Italy

Mount Etna

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

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.

336 ancient columns

Istanbul, Turkey

Basilica Cisterns of Istanbul

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Pamukkale Water Terraces

Denizli, Turkey

Pamukkale Water Terraces

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

Fairy Chimneys

Aksaray, Turkey

Cappadocia

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Kaymaklı Underground City

Kaymaklı Belediyesi, Turkey

Kaymaklı Underground City

While not Turkey's deepest underground city, this subterranean redoubt is the largest.

Bete Giyorgis

Lalibela, Ethiopia

Bete Giyorgis of Lalibela

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

Yemrehanna Kristos Church

Ethiopia

Yemrehanna Kristos Church

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

Historic Richmond Town

Staten Island, New York

Historic Richmond Town

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

The Conch Republic

Key West, Florida

The Conch Republic

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Monsignor McGolrick Park

Brooklyn, New York

Monsignor McGolrick Park

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

Transmitter Park

Brooklyn, New York

Transmitter Park

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Plymouth Street in Vinegar Hill

Brooklyn, New York

Vinegar Hill

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

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