samanthachong's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

samanthachong

Associate Director of Audience Development, camera-happy, will talk to you at length about food.

2017
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Coober Pedy, Australia

Coober Pedy

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

Bingen, Germany

Mouse Tower

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Rhinestone Cowboy House at the JMK Arts Center

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

Added by mbison

Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Doc Holliday's Grave

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, France

Odeillo Solar Furnace

The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.

East Jerusalem, Israel

Immovable Ladder on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit Salt Mine

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

Rancho Palos Verdes, California

Wayfarers Chapel

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

anhie

Matmatat-Al-Qadimal, Tunisia

Hotel Sidi Driss

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Boston, Massachusetts

Museum of Bad Art

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.