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Alan Newman

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2016

Retired university professor.

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  • History & Conflict
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  • Nature & Outdoors
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  • Minneapolis
  • San Francisco

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The beautiful tiles of Manises.

Manises, Spain

The Ceramics of Manises

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

Ruins at back of chapel.

Grindleford, England

Padley Chapel

A reminder of religious intolerance and state sponsored corruption in 16th century Britain

The wreck.

Hunstanton, England

Wreck of the Steam Trawler Sheraton

All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.

Saltburn Cliff Lift and Pier

Saltburn-by-the-Sea, England

Saltburn Cliff Lift

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

Detail of the abutment

Cambridge, England

The Mathematical Bridge

The unlikely myth that this bridge was designed by Sir Isaac Newton is quite a tribute to its clever design.

Leicester Diwali Celebrations

Leicester, England

Leicester Diwali Celebrations

The City of Leicester hosts the biggest Diwali celebrations in Britain and possibly the biggest outside India.

The Brick Train of Darlington.

Darlington, England

Brick Train

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

Burgh Island, the hotel, and the sea tractor.

Kingsbridge, England

Burgh Island

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

Close-up of the McDonalds marquee with the Imperial eagle

Porto, Portugal

McDonald's Imperial

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

The railway station before installation of the roof garden

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Orlyplein Roof Garden

The PS Medway Queen.

Gillingham, England

The PS Medway Queen

The "Heroine of Dunkirk" rescued over 7,000 Allied troops during the historic World War II evacuation.

The Roman circus of Toledo.

Toledo, Spain

Roman Circus of Toledo

The ruins of an ancient stadium that hosted gripping chariot and horse races.

National Cold War Exhibition

Shifnal, England

National Cold War Exhibition

This exhibition covers a dangerous period in world history.

Just inside the entrance

England

Thor's Cave

This cave is the burial site of at least seven people and was occupied for over a thousand years.

Typical serving of Asturian cider

Oviedo, Spain

Calle Gascona, el Bulevar de la Sidra

A street where pouring cider is an art form.

The patriotic plantations.

Bakewell, England

England's 'ER' Plantations

The patches of trees pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.

The Signal Box Inn.

Cleethorpes, England

The Signal Box Inn

This tiny business claims to be "the smallest pub on the planet."

The spit stone in Bremen.

Bremen, Germany

Spuckstein Gesche Gottfried

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Clock Cottage.

Spinkhill, England

Clock Cottage

A gardener saved a beloved clock face from destruction by building it into a wall outside his house.

The vintage Speedway.

Kilgetty, Wales

Folly Farm

Go back 50 years with a turn on one of the park's carefully restored vintage fairground rides.

Bradgate House.

Newtown Linford, England

Bradgate House

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

The ruins of MV Creteblock.

Whitby, England

Wreck of the MV Creteblock

The remains of the concrete ship can be seen during low tide.

Piazza dell'Anfiteatro in Lucca.

Lucca, Italy

Piazza dell'Anfiteatro

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

Rope making equipment in the cave mouth, looking out.

Castleton, England

Peak Cavern's Rope Factory

Some of England's last cave dwellers lived and worked within this huge cave.

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