springer's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

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springer

From my childhood days, I have wanted to know what was beyond the horizon. After Twentytwo and a half years in the US Navy and thirty-plus years traveling the globe since retiring I have managed to see Lands, which I could have only dreamed about as a child. Meeting people along the way and trying to understand their culture has been an extra benefit. To this day I still have friends I made fifty + years ago in distant countries. Travel broadens one's mind and outlook on life. One must but take the first step.

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Places visited in Omaha, Nebraska

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Places visited in Mineral Wells, Texas

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Places visited in Pozzuoli, Italy

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Places visited in Fort Worth, Texas

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The Traveling Man

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Chester, England

Chester Rows

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Added by humanist

The Big House (Allman Brothers Museum)

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

rockabillyratrod

Added by rockabillyratrod

Adrian E. Flatt, M.D., Hand Collection

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

Added by erogers717

Boys Town, Nebraska

World's Largest Ball of Stamps

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

Oliver Hong

Added by Oliver Hong

Northumberland, England

Winter's Gibbet

A lone pole once used to display a man's corpse now stands empty, but the memory remains.

drawingofsound

Added by drawingofsound

Tristan da Cunha

Tristan da Cunha

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

serflac

Added by serflac

Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

The Grave of Ernest Shackleton

Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

PaperTiger

Added by PaperTiger

Mineral Wells, Texas

Camp Wolters

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Added by Facebook1049881292

San Antonio, Texas

Mission San Jose

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Madiha Bataineh

Added by Madiha Bataineh

Los Angeles, California

Angels Flight

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

anhie

Petra

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years old and harbors many surprises.

Added by LongNow