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Fontanelle Cemetery Caves
Fontanelle Cemetery CavesThe plague of 1656 and the bombings of WWII united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient deadLike many ossuaries in Europe, the Cimitero Fontanelle began as an...
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Spider Gates Cemetery
Spider Gates Cemetery The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legendsFriends Cemetery is a small private Quaker cemetery in an idyllic, secluded woodland at...
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Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs
Kensal Green Cemetery and CatacombsWinding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in LondonKensal Green is the one of the oldest public burial grounds and the first of the...
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The Mysterious Witch Bonney
The Mysterious Witch BonneyThe Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial cityThe Witch Bonney is a statue of a woman with her arms outstretched on a rectangular tomb. Her hands...
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Minerva in the Green-Wood Cemetery
Minerva in the Green-Wood CemeteryA curious friendship between two inanimate ladiesFounded in 1838 as one of America’s first rural cemeteries, the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn soon became a most...
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Greenwood Cemetery
Greenwood CemeteryLocal legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghostsAccording to local legend, the staircase at the Greenwood Cemetery in Spokane,...
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Weeki Wachee: City of Live Mermaids
Weeki Wachee: City of Live MermaidsWelcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitorsLong before Disney World became the staple of Florida's tourism industry, there was...
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Te Waikoropupu Springs
Te Waikoropupu SpringsSome of the clearest water anywhere in the worldLocated in Golden Bay on New Zealand's South Island, the Te Waikoropupu Springs ("Pupu Springs") are known for both the clarity of...
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Ninfeo di Villa Litta
Ninfeo di Villa LittaAn ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wondersBuilt in 1589 to hold the art and fossils collection of the Borromeo Visconti Litta, the Ninfeo ("nymphs' cave") is an...
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Mt. Erebus
Mt. ErebusFire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on EarthErebus: It is a good name for the volcano. In Greek myth Erebus was the son of the god Chaos, and his mother was Gaia, or Earth. He was made...
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Chocolate Waterfall
Chocolate WaterfallOne of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades. Definately the first of it's kind!Located directly inside the front door of the Candy Basket shop in...
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Horsetail Fall's Fire Fall
Horsetail Fall's Fire FallThe highest fully-airborne waterfall in Yosemite which for a few minutes on a few days each year, turns a luminescent fiery orangeHorstail Fall is seasonal waterfall which...
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Calder Mercury Fountain
Calder Mercury FountainBeautiful but toxic fountain of mercury Mercury, also known as quicksilver, is a beautiful, mirror-skinned metal that is liquid at room temperature. Unfortunately, it is also...
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Firewater Pond
Firewater PondThe subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican springFire springs take rare and varying forms. The Yanar Bulag fire spring in Azerbaijan comes from water...
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Penis Fountain
Penis FountainAmsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imaginationAmsterdam is a city of permissions and tolerance, and home of one of the most famous red light districts in the world....
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The Yanar Bulag Fire Spring
The Yanar Bulag Fire SpringSpring that emits water and fire at the same time is said to have remedial properties, and sparked its own religionThe fire spring Yanar Bulag (which literally translates to...
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Ventura Oil Refinery
Ventura Oil RefineryRusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towersThe Ventura Oil Refinery in California fell into decline and disrepair when the nearby wells that fed it started to dry up....
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Aerojet-General Rocket Factory
Aerojet-General Rocket FactoryAbandoned in the Everglades, a test site for solid-fuel rocketsAnticipating that rockets would need to be constructed for NASA's upcoming Apollo moon missions, the...
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Cap Manuel's Abandoned Bunker
Cap Manuel's Abandoned BunkerPerched on top of a high cliff in Senegal, this abandoned bunker looks out over the AtlanticFirst person account from Atlas Obscura user La Tortue Noire: "The man shakes...
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Rustic Canyon's Murphy Ranch
Rustic Canyon's Murphy RanchWorld War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hillsHidden under dense foliage and down a treacherous decaying flight of hundreds of concrete stairs lies a World...
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