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pjrussell

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2015

Canadian, Architect, lover of the obscure.
tsinghua.academia.edu/PeterRussell

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Floating Farm

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Floating Farm

The world's first floating farm is staffed by one human, three robots, and 35 cows.

The Créac’h Lighthouse

Ouessant, France

The Créac’h Lighthouse

The Créac’h Lighthouse is the most powerful lighthouse in Europe, which gives you, at night, an eerie sense of serenity.

Adam’s Gulch trails are smooth, well-packed, and free of major roots, making for easy mountain biking.

Ketchum, Idaho

Adam’s Gulch

A busy trail network outside Ketchum, Idaho, hides a small piece of early Forest Service history.

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The Ring

Montreal, Quebec

The Ring

This massive circular sculpture may not be a portal to other worlds, but it does inspire the mind to imagine them.

Cape Bear Lighthouse

Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island

Cape Bear Lighthouse and Marconi Station

This lighthouse has been in operation since 1881, with an interesting connection to the RMS Titanic.

Kloster Eberbach

Eltville am Rhein, Germany

Kloster Eberbach

Kloster Eberbach is one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval Cistercian monasteries, founded in 1136 and renowned for its austere Romanesque architecture and historic wine cellars.

The temple is in the basement of the shopping mall that was built around and above it. It's a free museum.

Mainz, Germany

Isis Heiligtum (Isis and Magna Mater Temple)

An ancient Roman temple hidden in the basement of Römerpassage, a modern shopping mall.

About the Creighton House.

Yale, British Columbia

Yale Historic Site

The gateway to the goldfields of British Columbia, at the head of navigation on the Fraser River, features Gold Rush era buildings, artifacts, and living history exhibits

The encampment, 1988

Berlin, Germany

Lenné-Dreieck

A small wedge of East Berlin was once on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall

Main Post Office, Skopje, 1974

Skopje, North Macedonia

Post Office and Telecommunications Center

A Brutalist architectural gem hidden among Skopje’s neoclassical buildings.

The House of David Bowie

Berlin, Germany

The House of David Bowie

David Robert Jones was a Berliner — from 1976–1978

Swissair Flight 111 Memorial

Peggys Cove Preservation Area, Nova Scotia

Swissair Flight 111 Memorial

A beautiful memorial to the 215 passengers and 14 crew members who perished in a 1998 plane crash.

The Canal Vulva (Kutkunst)

Rotterdam, Netherlands

The Canal Vulva (Kutkunst)

An ode to female reproductive organs in an unexpected location

A map of Constantinople in the 15th century.

Istanbul, Turkey

Old Galata Walls

The remains of the medieval city walls that once protected the Genoese quarter of Constantinople

Book Burning Memorial

Berlin, Germany

Book Burning Memorial

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event

Maria Pía Bridge

Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

Maria Pía Bridge

Gustave Eiffel's masterpiece until the Eiffel Tower was built.

Rewind Wind Turbine Blade Benches

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Rewind Wind Turbine Blade Benches

Sitting at the intersection of sustainability and street art, these repurposed wind turbine blades offer a colorful, "blade-made" tribute to circular design and LGBTQI+ pride in the heart of Rotterdam.

Hufeisensiedlung

Berlin, Germany

Hufeisensiedlung

In a quiet neighborhood in the south of Berlin is one of the most ambitious social housing experiments of the 20th century.

Hill Road Taxi

Hong Kong

Hill Road Flyover

This striking high elevated road snakes downhill between densely packed buildings.

German Mining Museum

Bochum, Germany

German Mining Museum

The world’s largest museum dedicated to mining, complete with an underground show cave.

Vulture City Ghost Town

Wickenburg, Arizona

Vulture City Ghost Town

Vulture Mine was Arizona’s most productive gold mine, and instrumental to the development of Phoenix.

Hotel Porta Fira

Barcelona, Spain

Hotel Porta Fira

This bizarrely tree-like red skyscraper is one of the newer additions to Barcelona’s skyline.

The Parliament of trees with tombstones for the victims of the Berlin Wall

Berlin, Germany

The Parliament of Trees

A curious memorial to the Berlin Wall, German division, the war, and those who died at the wall.

Aufbau der Republik

Berlin, Germany

Aufbau der Republik

One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.

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