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oriana leckert

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2013

Oriana is a writer, editor, and hipstorian [sic] who is kind of obsessed with Brooklyn. She writes Brooklyn Spaces, a compendium of the borough's creative and underground culture, and her writing has appeared on Slate, Matador, CMJ, Brooklyn Based, Greenpointers, and more. Follow her at @orianabklyn.
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Grave of Mercy Brown

Exeter, Rhode Island

Grave of Mercy Brown

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

Nature's flying buttresses, lined up as far as the eye can see

Ribadeo, Spain

Playa de las Catedrales

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

Salt Pans of Maras

Maras, Peru

Salt Pans of Maras

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

One of the crosses viewed from a Google satellite.

Casa Grande, Arizona

Corona ‘Satellite Calibration Targets’

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

Moray

Urubamba, Peru

Moray

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

The International Space Station which will one day be at the bottom of the ocean.

New Zealand

Spacecraft Cemetery

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

photo by Tobias Helfrich / Wikimedia

Alghero, Italy

Neptune's Grotto

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Rubulad

Brooklyn, New York

Rubulad

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Marree Man

Callanna, Australia

Marree Man

Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.

Neruda's Gate by Mark di Suervo

New Windsor, New York

Storm King Art Center

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Blythe Intaglios

Blythe, California

Blythe Intaglios

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Kitum Cave

Kenya

Kitum Cave

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

The Cerne Abbas Giant

Cerne Abbas, England

The Cerne Abbas Giant

Giant naked man on a hillside.

The Spider (Nazca Lines)

Nazca, Peru

Nazca Lines

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

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