Archives: Atlas Obscuras

Lakeland Antique Mall

Discover Lakeland Antique Mall in Lakeland, Florida: Home to one of the best collections of Disney World memorabilia in the world.

Montauk Springs

Discover Montauk Springs in Joy, Missouri: Around 50 million gallons of water flow from this spring every day.

Charles Leroux Memorial

Discover Charles Leroux Memorial in Tallinn, Estonia: Dedicated to the untimely death of American balloonist and parachutist.

Barron Canyon Trail

Discover Barron Canyon Trail in Laurentian Hills, Ontario: Travel this route to explore a canyon crafted by ancient glaciers.

Oinusama

Discover Oinusama in Tokyo, Japan: Rubbing salt on this small stone dog is said to make wishes come true.

Tallgrass Prairie Bison

Discover Tallgrass Prairie Bison in Strong City, Kansas: A Kansas nature preserve protecting the plants and animals that once stretched across central North America.

Stockholm Metro Red Line Seats

Discover Stockholm Metro Red Line Seats in Stockholm, Sweden: There are hidden patterns on the subway seats of some Stockholm metro cars.

Kröller-Müller Museum

Discover Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands: Located inside Hoge Veluwe National Park, this museum began as the private collection of a prominent female art collector.

‘The Six White Mice’

Discover ‘The Six White Mice’ in Bratislava, Slovakia: A series of bronze circus performers spread throughout a Slovakian shopping center.

Arthur’s Seat

Discover Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland: This extinct volcano rises above Edinburgh and is special for its panoramic views over the city.

Hawthorne Ordnance Museum

Discover Hawthorne Ordnance Museum in Hawthorne, Nevada: Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

Salinas Pueblo Missions

Discover Salinas Pueblo Missions in Mountainair, New Mexico: Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai stand as monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

Toltec Mounds

Discover Toltec Mounds in Scott, Arkansas: People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1000 years ago.

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 261 ii
To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 480 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 514 iv
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To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 137 v
To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change. 172 vi
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To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 151 viii
To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features. 98 x
To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 168

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