nikisb

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2017

I am always looking for the odd, old, curious and abandoned. I love exploring and learning about history.

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Philadelphia
Washington, D.C.

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Colorado

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Colorado

Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum, with Fresnel lens.

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Mass

No names. Just numbers.

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NYC

3/2023

The ornament collection spans decades.

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Michigan

The oldest museum in Louisiana.

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Nolo

Longwood Gardens.

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Pennsylvania

Part of abandoned historic downtown Cairo, Illinois.

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Illinois

Fort Jefferson, moat and wall

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Florida

Aldeyjarfoss

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Iceland

Ireland

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Ireland

Family of mammoth replicas.

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Canada

Catacombes des Paris Autumn 2018

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France

A collection of 8 coffins with their lids and carved figures, found in a rocky niche on the north-eastern slopes of Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, in June 1836. © National Museums Scotland (used with permission)

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Scotland

London

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London

Unclaimed Baggage Center

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Alabama/Mississippi

South Dakota

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South Dakota

Calico Ghost Town from an overlook

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California

Tiny bits of the survivor's cabin were sold as souvenirs in the years after the Donner Party

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Reno

Electro-Metabograph

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Minnesota

Funeral home artifacts, “haunted” dolls, and weird medicine are just a few of the hundreds of items at the American Oddities Museum.

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Missouri

Seattle

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Seattle

Chicago

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Chicago

Museum of the Weird, May 2018

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Texas