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Rob Velella

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2014

Rob is a writer, performer, and tour guide who specializes in the history of American writing in the 19th century.

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Space Acorn replica on display in Kecksburg, PA

Kecksburg, Pennsylvania

Space Acorn

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

Jason Miller Statue

Scranton, Pennsylvania

Jason Miller Statue

The Pulitzer Prize winning writer and actor from “The Exorcist,” Jason Miller, is immortalized with a statue that contains his ashes.

Front of the mausoleum

New Orleans, Louisiana

Rice Family Mausoleum

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

Warren's Occult Museum

Monroe, Connecticut

The Warrens’ Occult Museum

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

This chocolatier is one of the oldest in the United States.

Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

The Hebert Candy Mansion

This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.

Controls.

West Chester, Ohio

Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting

The former broadcast site has been reimagined as a museum about the medium.

Harriet E. Wilson Memorial

Milford, New Hampshire

Harriet E. Wilson Memorial

This bronze statue commemorates the life of the first Black American to publish a novel in the United States.

The Horse You Came In On Saloon.

Baltimore, Maryland

The Horse You Came In On Saloon

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Halloween face jugs.

Altoona, Pennsylvania

Castle Halloween Museum

Journey through a collection of over 35,000 Halloween items from all generations.

The shelter's blast door

White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

Congressional Fallout Shelter at the Greenbrier Resort

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

The The Weeping Glass.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Weeping Glass

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Plaque commemorating the fake altercation.

Lowell, Massachusetts

Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs Fight Plaque

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

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