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Doug Gerlach

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2009

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Follow travelers to discover remarkable places through their journeys.

My Travel Interests

  • Abandoned & Ruined
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  • Art & Creativity
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    You explored one of America's most iconic highways by marking at least three remarkable places along historic Route 66.

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Places I've been

Places this traveler has marked as been there.

Presenting Flannery O'Connor's collection of short stories in front of her childhood home.

Savannah, Georgia

Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home

The childhood home of the award-winning novelist and short story writer.

FAME Studios

Muscle Shoals, Alabama

FAME Studios

A modest Alabama recording studio where some of music’s biggest voices found their sound.

The South Front and the South Lawn with the Seahorse Fountain. The exterior steps are a 19th century replacement for the original horseshoe shaped steps. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bakewell, England

Chatsworth House

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

The main reading room of the Athenaeum.

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence Athenaeum

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Beauvoir

Biloxi, Mississippi

The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

Cabazon's T-rex dressed up for Valentine's Day

Cabazon, California

Cabazon Dinosaurs

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The view from outside the fence.

Palm Springs, California

Volkswagen Spider Sculpture

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

The Sunnylands visitor center

Rancho Mirage, California

Sunnylands

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

Robo Lights

Palm Springs, California

Robo Lights

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

The bedroom of Frey House II.

Palm Springs, California

Frey House II

With beautiful views and every detail perfectly considered, one of the geniuses of modern architecture built himself the perfect home.

Superlambanana

Liverpool, England

Superlambanana

Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.

Entrance to Liverpool Central Library.

Liverpool, England

Liverpool Central Library Entrance Riddle

The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

Eleanor Rigby Statue

Liverpool, England

Eleanor Rigby Statue

This bronze statue was dedicated to a 1966 Beatles hit.

The entrance to Strawberry Field in 2021

Liverpool, England

Strawberry Field

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

"All the people that come and go..."

Liverpool, England

Penny Lane

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

St Johns Beacon

Liverpool, England

St Johns Beacon

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.

'Another Place'

Waterloo, England

'Another Place'

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

"Polite Literature."

Manchester, England

Portico Library and Gallery

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

The red post box.

Manchester, England

The Undamaged Red Post Box

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

Victoria Arches

Manchester, England

Victoria Arches

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

The Sign for the Old Wellington, with the Old Wellington itself in the background on the left.

Manchester, England

The Shambles

Two of Manchester’s oldest buildings were moved twice.

Hanging Ditch Bridge

Manchester, England

Hanging Ditch Bridge

The construction of this bridge dates back to the 15th century.

The building in 2025.

Manchester, England

Withy Grove Stores

A seemingly abandoned store in central Manchester with a lengthy backstory.

Looks can be deceiving.

Manchester, England

The Washhouse

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

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