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Allison is a writer on art and overlooked history, as well as an avid cemetery explorer. Originally from an Oklahoma oil town, she's now based in Brooklyn after living for a time in France. She likes monumental art installations of ephemeral beauty and minuscule cemeteries hidden in the city sprawl.

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The Room of Endangered and Extinct Species

Paris, France

Musée des Arts et Métiers

Paris, France

Manchester Museum

Manchester, United Kingdom

Musée de Cluny

Paris, France

Friends Quaker Cemetery

Brooklyn, New York

Museum of the History of Medicine

Paris, France

Park Slope Plane Crash

Brooklyn, New York

The Times Square Hum

New York, New York

Buenos Aires Recoleta Cemetery

Buenos Aires, Argentina

House on the Rock

Spring Green, Wisconsin

Fantastic Caverns

Springfield, Missouri

Hunterian Museum, London

London, England

Catacombes de Paris

Paris, France

Centrale Montemartini

Rome, Italy

Petite Ceinture

Paris, France

Heart of Pope Pius VI

Valence, France

Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral

Clermont-Ferrand, France

The Gravestone Courtyard

Paris, France

The Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn , New York

Explorers Club Headquarters

New York City, New York

Xul Solar Museum

Buenos Aires, Argentina

New York Marble Cemetery

New York City, New York

La Dune du Pyla

La Teste-de-Buch, France

Statue of Death of the University of Medicine

Paris, France

41 Cooper Square

Manhattan, New York

Shakespeare and Company

paris, France

Lenin Statue at Red Square

Manhattan, New York

New York Transit Museum

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Townhouse Secret Subway Exit

Brooklyn, New York

Mütter Museum

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The New York Earth Room

New York City, New York

Broken Angel

Brooklyn, New York

Musée des Arts Forains

Paris, France

Deyrolle Taxidermy

Paris, France

El Ateneo Grand Splendid

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Obscura Antiques and Oddities

New York City, New York

Julien Aurouze and Co.

Paris, France

The Winchester Mystery House

San Jose, California

Cimetiere de Picpus

Paris, France

Grave of Pat the Horse

San Antonio, Texas

Cemetery of the Dogs

Asnières-sur-Seine, France

Playtower

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Museum of Osteology and Skulls Unlimited

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Pentaceratops Skull: Sam Noble Museum of Natural History

Norman, Oklahoma

Heart of the Dauphin

Saint-Denis, France

Grave of Elmer McCurdy

Guthrie, Oklahoma

Wichita Mountains Buffalo Herd

Cache, Oklahoma

Astronomical Clock of Lyon

Lyon, France

Dallas Skyspace

Dallas, Texas

Arènes de Lutèce

Paris, France

Villa La Roche by Le Corbusier

Paris, France

Calvary Cemetery

Queens, New York

Grande Galerie de l'Évolution

Paris, France

Darwin Centre Spirit Collection

London, England

Scottish Rite Temple

Guthrie, Oklahoma

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Paris, France

The wax and bones relics of Saint Vincent de Paul

Paris, France

Clocktower Gallery and Machinery Room

New York City, New York

Museum of Hunting and Nature (Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature)

Paris, France

Kansas City Library's Giant Bookshelf

Kansas City, Missouri

The Grolier Club

New York, New York

Museé Fragonard

Paris, France

Spiro Mounds

Spiro, Oklahoma

Woolaroc

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Musee Dupuytren

Paris, France

Un Regard Moderne Bookstore

France

Pont de la Concorde

Paris, France

The Quadrangle

San Antonio, Texas

Blue Whale of Catoosa

Catoosa, Oklahoma

Lion of The Botanical Gardens

Paris, France

Carlsbad Caverns

Carlsbad, New Mexico

Vanderbilt Museum

Centerport, New York

Pergamon Museum

Berlin, Germany

Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Paris, France

Vinegar Hill

Brooklyn, New York

Steamboat Arabia Museum

Kansas City, Missouri

Museum Carnavalet

Paris, France

The American Visionary Art Museum

Baltimore, Maryland

Merchant's House Museum

New York, New York

Paris Padlocks of Love

Paris, France

Bayside Cemetery

Queens, New York

World's Largest Shuttlecocks

Kansas City, Missouri

The Center of the Universe

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Woodlawn Cemetery

New York, New York

New York City Marble Cemetery

New York, New York

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Red Hook Grain Terminal

Brooklyn, New York

Arch of Neutrality

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Steinway Piano Factory

Astoria, New York

Atomic Survival Town

Nevada

Titanic Museum Attraction

Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

The Room of Endangered and Extinct Species

Paris, France

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics

Moscow, Russia

Auburn War Eagle

Auburn , Alabama

Mimizuka

Kyoto, Japan

Musée des Arts et Métiers

Paris, France

Manchester Museum

Manchester, United Kingdom

Mansfield Memorial Museum

Mansfield, Ohio

Lowell Observatory

Flagstaff, Arizona

Musée de Cluny

Paris, France

Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center

Noumea, New Caledonia

Bahrain World Trade Center

Manama, Bahrain

Miracle Pine

Rikuzentakata, Japan

Friends Quaker Cemetery

Brooklyn, New York

Museum of the History of Medicine

Paris, France

AquaDom at Radisson Blu Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Nemi Ships

Nemi, Italy

Heavener Runestone

Heavener, Oklahoma

Kaspar Hauser Monument

Ansbach, Germany

Saint Michel d'Aiguilhe (St. Michael of the Needle)

Le Puy-en-Velay , France

Monument to the Conquerors of Space

Moscow, Russia

John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Centrale Montemartini

Rome, Italy

Petite Ceinture

Paris, France

Fire-Breathing Dragon Bridge

Da Nang, Vietnam

Napoleon's Camel

Île d'Aix, France

Heart of Pope Pius VI

Valence, France

The Gravestone Courtyard

Paris, France

The Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn , New York

Santa Francesca Romana

Rome, Italy

The Relic Chapel at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer

New York City, New York

Marineland Melanesia

Green Island, Australia

Garden of Cosmic Speculation

Dumfries, Scotland

Le Louxor Palais du Cinema

Paris , France

Pripyat Amusement Park

Pripyat, Ukraine

National Assembly of Bangladesh

New York City, New York

Xul Solar Museum

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Karni Mata Temple

Bikaner, India

Tempest Freerunning Academy

Los Angeles, California

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center

Brentwood, New York

La Cave des Roches - Mushroom Caves

Bourré, France

Musée de la Poupée

Paris, France

Cosmonaut Grove

Karaganda, Kazakhstan

American Museum of Magic

Marshall, Michigan

New York Marble Cemetery

New York City, New York

Piasa Bird

Alton, Illinois

Epiacum

Alston, England

41 Cooper Square

Manhattan, New York

Lenin Statue at Red Square

Manhattan, New York

Neverland Ranch

Los Olivos, California

Brooklyn Townhouse Secret Subway Exit

Brooklyn, New York

Blue Lagoon

Grindavík, Iceland

Old Zoo Picnic Area

Los Angeles, California

Tesla's Wardenclyffe Laboratory

Shoreham, New York

China's Wonderland

Changping District, China

Mütter Museum

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Broken Angel

Brooklyn, New York

Belle Isle Aquarium

Detroit, Michigan

Jim Thorpe Monument

Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Musée des Arts Forains

Paris, France

Pterosaur Jaw Bone

Calgary, Canada

Deyrolle Taxidermy

Paris, France

Project HARP Space Gun

Barbados

Storyville

New Orleans, Louisiana

Walter Benjamin Memorial

Portbou, Spain

Chancellor Robert R Livingston Masonic Library

New York City, New York

Charles W. Howard Santa School

Midland, Michigan

Star City

Zvyozdny Gorodok, Russia

Darryl Starbird's National Rod and Custom Car Hall of Fame Museum

Afton, Oklahoma

Crystal Cathedral

Garden Grove, California

Basilica of St. Joseph of Cupertino

Osimo, Italy

Museum of Unnatural History

Washington DC

Museum fur Naturkunde

Berlin, Germany

Cimetiere de Picpus

Paris, France

St. Nicholas Church

Nedlitz, Germany

Cemetery of the Dogs

Asnières-sur-Seine, France

Petersen Automotive Vault

Los Angeles, California

Playtower

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Museum of Osteology and Skulls Unlimited

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Pentaceratops Skull: Sam Noble Museum of Natural History

Norman, Oklahoma

Japan's Abandoned Russian Village - Niigata Russian Village

Suibara, Japan

TNT Area

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

Tehachapi Wind Farm

Tehachapi, California

Solar One and Solar Two

Daggett, California

Heart of the Dauphin

Saint-Denis, France

Edward Dean Adams Power Plant

Niagara Falls, New York

Wichita Mountains Buffalo Herd

Cache, Oklahoma

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Baikonur, Kazakhstan

Irish Hunger Memorial

New York City, New York

ATLAS-I

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Ramanujan Museum

Chennai, India

Art Car Museum

Houston, Texas

Astronomical Clock of Lyon

Lyon, France

Dallas Skyspace

Dallas, Texas

Villa La Roche by Le Corbusier

Paris, France

Nabokov's Butterflies

St. Petersburg, Russia

Calvary Cemetery

Queens, New York

Monument Arthur Rimbaud

Marseille, France

Cantos Music Foundation

Calgary, Canada

Grande Galerie de l'Évolution

Paris, France

Grant Museum of Zoology

London, United Kingdom

Mike the Tiger

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Scottish Rite Temple

Guthrie, Oklahoma

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Paris, France

The wax and bones relics of Saint Vincent de Paul

Paris, France

Babylon

Babylon, Iraq

Picher

Picher, Oklahoma

Emirates National Auto Museum

United Arab Emirates

Museum of Hunting and Nature (Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature)

Paris, France

High Royds Hospital

Wakefield, England

Vozrozhdeniye Island

Vozrozhdeniye Island, Kazakhstan

The Grolier Club

New York, New York

La Piscine

Roubaix, France

Marwari Horses

India

Flux Factory

Long Island City, New York

Heidelberg Project

Detroit, Michigan

Grande Ballroom

Detroit, Michigan

Barnton Quarry Nuclear Bunker

Edinburgh, Scotland

A Panorama View of New York City

Queens, New York

Big Bertha Drum

Austin, Texas

Takakanonuma Greenland

Hobara, Japan

Bunkers of Albania

Albania

Spiro Mounds

Spiro, Oklahoma

Woolaroc

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Wilder Brain Collection

Ithaca, New York

Musee Dupuytren

Paris, France

Geological Museum

Copenhagen, Denmark

Nantes' Natural History Museum

Nantes, France

The Blue Planet

Copenhagen, Denmark

Pont de la Concorde

Paris, France

Kunstkammer Wien

Vienna, Austria

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

Weston, West Virginia

Norwich State Hospital

Preston, Connecticut

Hank Williams' Death Car

Montgomery, Alabama

Waco Mammoth Site

Waco, Texas

Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Paris, France

Vinegar Hill

Brooklyn, New York

Pluto's Gate

Hierapolis, Turkey

Padre Pio Shrine at the Church of St. John the Baptist

New York City, New York

The Thief's Arm at Kostel Sv. Jakuba Vetsiho

Prague, Czech Republic

Cave of Lascaux

Montignac, France

Giant Crystals of Naica

Naica, Mexico

Merchant's House Museum

New York, New York

The World's Largest Wind Tunnel

Mountain View, California

Bayside Cemetery

Queens, New York

International Cryptozoology Museum

Portland, Maine

Higgins Armory Museum

Worcester, Massachusetts

Alfred Denny Museum

Sheffield, England

Duke of Lancaster

Flintshire, Wales

Reveille Mascot Cemetery

College Station, Texas

Superconducting Super Collider

Waxahachie, Texas

Brooklyn Art Library

Brooklyn, NY

Woodlawn Cemetery

New York, New York

Higgins Armory Museum

Worcester, Massachusetts

New York City Marble Cemetery

New York, New York

Novodevichy Cemetery

Moscow, Russia

Fantasy Dining Alice in a Labyrinth

Tokyo, Japan

The World's Tallest Pope Statue

Czestochowa, Poland

Interference Archive

Brooklyn , New York

The Linked Headstones of Het Oude Kerkhof

Roermond , The Netherlands

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Arch of Neutrality

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

The Room of Endangered and Extinct Species

Paris, France

Showmen's Rest

Hugo, Oklahoma

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics

Moscow, Russia

Auburn War Eagle

Auburn , Alabama

Mimizuka

Kyoto, Japan

Manchester Museum

Manchester, United Kingdom

Mansfield Memorial Museum

Mansfield, Ohio

Musée de Cluny

Paris, France

Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center

Noumea, New Caledonia

Bahrain World Trade Center

Manama, Bahrain

Miracle Pine

Rikuzentakata, Japan

Friends Quaker Cemetery

Brooklyn, New York

Museum of the History of Medicine

Paris, France

Nemi Ships

Nemi, Italy

Park Slope Plane Crash

Brooklyn, New York

Heavener Runestone

Heavener, Oklahoma

Kaspar Hauser Monument

Ansbach, Germany

John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Centrale Montemartini

Rome, Italy

Petite Ceinture

Paris, France

Fire-Breathing Dragon Bridge

Da Nang, Vietnam

Mummy of Luang Pho Dang

Ko Samui, Thailand

Napoleon's Camel

Île d'Aix, France

Heart of Pope Pius VI

Valence, France

Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral

Clermont-Ferrand, France

Marineland Melanesia

Green Island, Australia

Pripyat Amusement Park

Pripyat, Ukraine

National Assembly of Bangladesh

New York City, New York

Xul Solar Museum

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Cosmonaut Grove

Karaganda, Kazakhstan

New York Marble Cemetery

New York City, New York

Epiacum

Alston, England

La Dune du Pyla

La Teste-de-Buch, France

59 Rivoli

Paris, France

Neverland Ranch

Los Olivos, California

Blue Lagoon

Grindavík, Iceland

Jim Thorpe Monument

Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Pterosaur Jaw Bone

Calgary, Canada

Castle Frankenstein

Darmstadt, Germany

Walter Benjamin Memorial

Portbou, Spain

Basilica of St. Joseph of Cupertino

Osimo, Italy

Museum fur Naturkunde

Berlin, Germany

Grave of Pat the Horse

San Antonio, Texas

Petersen Automotive Vault

Los Angeles, California

Playtower

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Museum of Osteology and Skulls Unlimited

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Pentaceratops Skull: Sam Noble Museum of Natural History

Norman, Oklahoma

Tehachapi Wind Farm

Tehachapi, California

Solar One and Solar Two

Daggett, California

Heart of the Dauphin

Saint-Denis, France

Edward Dean Adams Power Plant

Niagara Falls, New York

Wichita Mountains Buffalo Herd

Cache, Oklahoma

Irish Hunger Memorial

New York City, New York

Astronomical Clock of Lyon

Lyon, France

Dallas Skyspace

Dallas, Texas

Nabokov's Butterflies

St. Petersburg, Russia

Calvary Cemetery

Queens, New York

Monument Arthur Rimbaud

Marseille, France

Cantos Music Foundation

Calgary, Canada

Grande Galerie de l'Évolution

Paris, France

Grant Museum of Zoology

London, United Kingdom

Mike the Tiger

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Scottish Rite Temple

Guthrie, Oklahoma

Babylon

Babylon, Iraq

Picher

Picher, Oklahoma

The Grolier Club

New York, New York

La Piscine

Roubaix, France

Jade Burial Suits

Shijiazhuang , China

Marwari Horses

India

Flux Factory

Long Island City, New York

Grande Ballroom

Detroit, Michigan

Barnton Quarry Nuclear Bunker

Edinburgh, Scotland

Big Bertha Drum

Austin, Texas

Bunkers of Albania

Albania

Domus de Janas Tombs

Bonnanaro, Italy

Spiro Mounds

Spiro, Oklahoma

Woolaroc

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Geological Museum

Copenhagen, Denmark

The Blue Planet

Copenhagen, Denmark

Pont de la Concorde

Paris, France

Kunstkammer Wien

Vienna, Austria

The Quadrangle

San Antonio, Texas

Waco Mammoth Site

Waco, Texas

Pluto's Gate

Hierapolis, Turkey

Cave of Lascaux

Montignac, France

The World's Largest Wind Tunnel

Mountain View, California

Bayside Cemetery

Queens, New York

Alfred Denny Museum

Sheffield, England

Duke of Lancaster

Flintshire, Wales

Reveille Mascot Cemetery

College Station, Texas

New York City Marble Cemetery

New York, New York

Younger's Bend

Porum, Oklahoma

Novodevichy Cemetery

Moscow, Russia

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