biodieselbarry's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

biodieselbarry

Although mostly domestic, I travel for work and routinely look for nearby Atlas Obscura sites. When I'm able, I also contribute as I stumble across the off-beat spots I find far from the main roads.

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Musk Ox Farm

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Castle House

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

Added by frankemrick

Anchorage, Alaska

Burial Spirit Houses

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

nbj914

Added by nbj914

Boston, Massachusetts

USS Constitution

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

jusTodd

Added by jusTodd

Boston, Massachusetts

Skinny House

Narrowest house in Boston.

Boston, Massachusetts

Empire Garden Restaurant

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Blairsville, Georgia

Brasstown Bald

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

thomasharper

Added by thomasharper

Cleveland, Georgia

Babyland General Hospital: Cabbage Patch Kids

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Added by zeppomarks

Emily’s Bridge

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

JWOcker

Added by JWOcker

Waterbury, Vermont

Ben & Jerry's Flavor Graveyard

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Ophelia Ravenia

Added by Ophelia Ravenia

Franconia, New Hampshire

Old Man of the Mountain Profiler Plaza

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

bakedinthehole

Added by bakedinthehole

Jackson, New Hampshire

Mount Washington

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

thomasharper

Added by thomasharper

Rapid City, South Dakota

Thunderhead Underground Falls

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

kcmick

Added by kcmick

Rapid City, South Dakota

Chapel In The Hills

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

worldlywondersandcurios

Added by worldlywondersandcurios

Rapid City, South Dakota

Firehouse Brewing Co.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Added by meagka

Hot Springs, South Dakota

Mammoth Site

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Added by graknil

Rapid City, South Dakota

McDonald’s Quarter Pounder Monument

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

rbt45769

Added by rbt45769

Bozeman, Montana

American Computer Museum

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Three Forks, Montana

Bleu Horses

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

Seattle, Washington

Gas Works Park

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Mira

Seattle, Washington

Lenin Statue of Fremont

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Dylan

Federal Way, Washington

Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

LittleEarthlingFamily

Added by LittleEarthlingFamily

Salt Lake City, Utah

Site of the World's First KFC

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

Museum of Ancient Life

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Josh