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Alan Newman

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2016

Retired university professor.

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  • London
  • Minneapolis
  • San Francisco

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Vatican City walls.

Vatican City

Vatican City Walls

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

La Margineda Bridge

Andorra la Vella, Andorra

La Margineda Bridge

You can still walk across this beautiful medieval bridge in Andorra.

Pedestrian passageway

London, England

Greathead Tunneling Shield

At Bank station, the tunneling shield that built the original Waterloo & City line tunnel is hiding in plain sight

Windy Hill transmitter

Ripponden, England

Windy Hill

The longest cutting on the M62 contains some surprises—though it's best to leave the motorway to appreciate them.

Antler chandelier plus interior of restaurant

Elsie, Oregon

Camp 18 Restaurant

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

A view of Crescent Beach from Ecola Point.

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Crescent Beach

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Haystack Rock

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Haystack Rock

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Southern Cemetery

Manchester, England

Southern Cemetery

The largest municipal cemetery in the United Kingdom and the second largest in Europe contains some of Manchester’s biggest characters.

Maria PĂ­a Bridge

Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

Maria PĂ­a Bridge

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

The Lytham St. Annes Spitfire.

Lytham, England

Lytham St Annes Spitfire Memorial

During World War II, locals rallied together to buy this plane to support the war effort.

Eyam Boundary Stone

Eyam, England

Eyam Boundary Stone

Where a plague-quarantined village left vinegar-soaked coins for supplies

Roman Upper South Gate

Lincoln, England

Roman Upper South Gate

Fragments of a Roman city gate embedded in a building on Lincoln's Steep Hill

Whale Bridge

Berjou, France

Whale Bridge

A remnant of the Mulberry Harbour from the Normandy landings of 1944 is still in use, miles from the beach.

Jingling Pot

England

Jingling Pot

A spectacular pothole (pit cave) in The Yorkshire Dales, the home of British vertical cave exploration.

Edwardian Tram Waiting Rooms

Darwen, England

Edwardian Tram Waiting Rooms

An example of early 20th century gender segregation

The War Memorial Tablet

Manchester, England

Manchester Victoria Station Map Mural & War Memorials

Amazing tiled map mural showing the lines of the famous Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, incorporated into the war memorial after WW1

Old abutment clearly visible on left

Denby Dale, England

Denby Dale Railway Viaduct

Before this fine stone viaduct was built, trains ran across a rather wobbly wooden trestle, and the original abutments are still there.

The ridges and furrows formed on historically strip farmed land.

England

Medieval Strip Farming

The farmland on the old Isle of Axholme is one of only 4 places in the UK where the medieval practice of strip farming still persists.

Reunification Bridge

Loughborough, England

Reunification Bridge

The bridge which will eventually overcome the barrier to the unification of two heritage railway lines which both claim the Great Central Railway's illustrious name

The clock tower of the old Nottingham Victoria Station

Nottingham, England

Site of Nottingham Victoria Railway Station

Closing the station left a big hole in the ground. So they put in a shopping centre, a block of apartments and bus station over it and the largest undercover car park Europe in it.

Entrance to the Convento hotel

Santa MarĂ­a de Mave, Spain

Convent of Santa Maria de Mave

This former monastery or convent is now, in part, a boutique hotel, but the church linked to it is intact.

Weir across the river to provide the required head of water

Aguilar de Campoo, Spain

Central Hidroeléctrica in the Canyon de la Horadada and the Tuerces Hiking Trail,

A historic engineering feature in a spectacular setting leading to a hike through the Spanish "Colorado" up to a geological wonder on the plateau above.

Campo Grande Park

Valladolid, Spain

Campo Grande Park

This tranquil urban park has a violent history.

Old Wind Pumps at Santa Maria de  Mave

Sotresgudo, Spain

Old Wind Pumps at Santa Maria de Mave

Four unusual buildings of similar shape which were once important to the local agriculture

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