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EricGrundhauser

Director of Programming, Atlas Obscura Membership. Eric heads up Atlas Obscura's membership program, hosting and producing shows that bring our curious world to life! He lives in Brooklyn with his comic book collection. His work has been featured on Slate, NPR, Vanity Fair, The AV Club, Motherboard, Smithsonian, and a bunch of other places where reasonable content is sold. Helluva guy. Have any issues? eric@atlasobscura.com

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Cassadaga, New York

Lily Dale Spiritualist Community

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

San Francisco, California

Defenestration

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Giant GUNDAM Robot

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Added by ilbonito

Seattle, Washington

Seattle Underground

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Cardross, Scotland

The Ruins of St. Peter's Seminary

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

jamesb

Added by jamesb

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Mount Trashmore

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

Brooklyn, New York

Minerva Monument

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Added by FungusFan

Inyo County, California

Devils Golf Course Landscape

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Added by fta2day

Darwin, Minnesota

World's Largest Ball of Twine Rolled by One Man

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

Les Baux-de-Provence, France

Carrières de Lumières

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

agiel

Manahari, Nepal

Island Jungle Resort at Chitwan National Park

Everything from a plane to your own two feet are needed to reach this jungle resort.

Chichen Itza, Mexico

Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chich'en Itza

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Tre

East Otto, New York

Griffis Sculpture Park

A collection of unique outdoor sculptures surounded by the beauty of nature.

Stockholm, Sweden

Vasa Museum

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Groom Lake, Nevada

Area 51

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Jerusalem, Israel

Meah Shearim

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

Added by Incendiary

Chicago, Illinois

Hot Doug's

Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.

Seattle, Washington

Gum Wall

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Atlanta, Georgia

Cascade Springs Nature Preserve

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

Added by maldorora

Vista Hermosa, Colombia

Caño Cristales

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz Mystery Spot

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Added by cjwvos

Isola di San Michele

Venice's island of the dead.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

New York, New York

The High Line

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Waterloo, England

'Another Place'

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

Added by lercio