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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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Bridge in the up position

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Union Pacific Vertical Lift Rail Bridge

One of only 3 vertical lift bridges on the Mississippi it still operates despite its apparent condition

Piacentino Ennese

Meats & Animal Products

Piacentino Ennese

This Sicilian sheep's milk cheese is colored with saffron and studded with black peppercorns.

Black Fire Scotch Eggs

Prepared Foods

Black Fire Scotch Eggs

This unusual take on a British comfort food hides two surprises inside.

Snoopy the World Traveller

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Snoopy the World Traveller

This statue of Snoopy on vacation is just outside the kids area at Minneapolis Saint Paul International was one of a series of 101 Snoopy statues created in 2000.

Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

Sbirro Cheese

Meats & Animal Products

Sbirro Cheese

Italy's first beer cheese gets coated in spent brewing grains and soaked in lager.

Marvelous temple ruins.

Calatafimi, Italy

Temple of Segesta

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

Bevin Boys Memorial.

Burton-on-Trent, England

Bevin Boys Memorial

A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

Ancient walls.

Erice, Italy

Phoenician Walls of Erice

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

'Miracle on Ice' Statue

Saint Paul, Minnesota

'Miracle on Ice' Statue

This statue of Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks immortalizes one of the greatest moments in American sports history.

Pani câ Mèusa

Prepared Foods

Pani câ Mèusa

You can enjoy this Sicilian spleen sandwich “single” or “married.”

Looking into the barrow from the entrance.

Marlborough, England

West Kennet Long Barrow

It's possible to walk inside one of the largest Neolithic tombs in Britain.

Group of works depicting the stages in human relationships.

Tortosa, Spain

Jardins del Príncep

A botanical garden full of thought-provoking contemporary sculptures.

Ford's Hospital from Greyfriars Lane.

Coventry, England

Ford's Hospital

For over 500 years this timbered alms house has provided a home for elderly residents of Coventry.

Stigghiola

Prepared Foods

Stigghiola

The streets of Palermo are filled with the smell of succulent, sizzling lamb intestines.

John Muir's Birthplace.

Dunbar, Scotland

John Muir's Birthplace

The small Scottish townhouse where the "Father of the National Parks" was born.

 The breach in the dam wall.

Dolgarrog, Wales

Remains of the Dolgarrog Dam Disaster

The worst flood disaster in Welsh history might have been a lot worse if it had not happened on movie night.

The Jewish deportations memorial at platform 16.

Florence, Italy

Platform 16 Holocaust Deportation Memorials

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Restored furnace top allows visitors to look down into the structure.

Moira, England

Moira Furnace

This early 19th-century blast furnace only survived because it was a financial and technical failure.

Arco de Santa María

Burgos, Spain

Arco de Santa María

The most elaborate of 12 medieval arched doorways to the old city of Burgos.

The balcony.

Rome, Italy

Mussolini's Balcony

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

Lookout.

Workington, England

Lookout

This unique sculptural clock transforms into a periscope every hour.

The restored clock in 2018.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sculpture Clock

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

The pillar.

Selfoss, Iceland

Öndvegissúlur

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

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