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Rebecca Schandel

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Spending Kids Inheritance on visiting Atlas sites. After 40 years of on and off travel, love adding the obscura sites to my holidays..
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Two foam-green crypts with planters.

Oaxaca, Mexico

Panteón General (General Cemetery)

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

Warm Glow Candle Outlet.

Centerville, Indiana

Warm Glow Candle Outlet

A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

Arthur B. Cohn House.

Houston, Texas

Arthur B. Cohn House

A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.

Octagon Hall.

Franklin, Kentucky

Octagon Hall Civil War Museum

A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

Museum of the Fur Trade

Chadron, Nebraska

Museum of the Fur Trade

This Great Plains museum pays tribute to both the prosperity and tragedy of the North American fur trade.

Aladdin Coal Tipple.

Aladdin, Wyoming

Aladdin Coal Tipple

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

Mr. Accordion's defiant headstone.

Springfield, Illinois

Mr. Accordion's Grave

The empty tomb that houses the memories of Roy Bertelli's revenge.

Jungle Jim's International Market

Fairfield, Ohio

Jungle Jim's International Market

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

Jason Ogata standing in front of Ota Tofu.

Portland, Oregon

Ota Tofu

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

Hapeville Worry Rock

Hapeville, Georgia

Hapeville Worry Rock

This hidden stone has absorbed decades of human anxiety.

Cenotaphs in Orchha at sunrise.

Orchha, India

Cenotaphs of Orchha

These medieval funerary monuments are now home to a colony of critically endangered vultures.

Salto del Monday

Presidente Franco, Paraguay

Salto del Monday

An underexplored, 130-foot tropical waterfall that you will have all to yourself.

The Cloverland Garage.

Asotin, Washington

Cloverland Ghost Town

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

A view of the church from a vacant lot.

East Liverpool, Ohio

The First Evangelical Presbyterian Church

A storybook church made from a mesmerizing medley of multi-colored stones.

Freak Alley Gallery

Boise, Idaho

Freak Alley Gallery

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

West Baden Springs Hotel Library

West Baden Springs, Indiana

West Baden Springs Hotel Library

A historic hotel library in Indiana hides more than a few secrets on its shelves.

These sculptures stand out in this quiet, rural neighborhood.

New Cumberland, West Virginia

Ken Sinsel's Metal Sculptures

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

Carson's grave stone.

Atlanta, Georgia

Grave of Fiddlin' John Carson

The first singer to cut a country music record is buried in a small graveyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lake Claire Community Land Trust

Atlanta, Georgia

Lake Claire Community Land Trust

A hidden oasis just two minutes from downtown Atlanta.

Hero Street USA

Silvis, Illinois

Hero Street USA

Lined with plaques and tributes to veterans, this patriotic street was founded by Mexican immigrants.

Pirámide de los Nichos

Papantla, Mexico

Pirámide de los Nichos (Pyramid of the Niches)

The singular ruins of a mysterious lost city.

Atlanta Glass Treehouse

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta Glass Treehouse

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

ANIMA.

Marrakesh, Morocco

ANIMA

This amazing oasis of art and plants is hidden on the outskirts of Marrakesh.

A view of the convent from the courtyard.

Mexico City, Mexico

Desierto de los Leones (Desert of the Lions)

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

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