Archives: Atlas Obscuras

Mono Mills

Discover Mono Mills in Mono Mills, California: A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

Saltsjöbaden Observatory

Discover Saltsjöbaden Observatory in Stockholm, Sweden: Once the world's most modern observatory, this building is now a private school.

Gold Hill Hotel

Discover Gold Hill Hotel in Virginia City, Nevada: The oldest hotel in Nevada.

Collectible and Antique Chair Gallery

Discover Collectible and Antique Chair Gallery in Stone Mountain, United States1: A semi-retired nurse’s record-setting collection of 3,000 tiny chairs.

Elliott Street Deli & Pub

Discover Elliott Street Deli & Pub in Atlanta, Georgia: For more than 15 years, this downtown dive bar has hosted fiery outdoor “iron pours.”.

Coral Pink Sand Dunes

Discover Coral Pink Sand Dunes in Kanab, Utah: Colorful sand dunes make a unique attraction in this part of the Utah red-rock country.

Napoleon’s Army Soldier

Discover Napoleon's Army Soldier in Bratislava, Slovakia: An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

Museum Of Islay Life

Discover Museum Of Islay Life in Port Charlotte, Scotland: A former church that has been chronicling the Scottish island of Islay's rich history since the 70s.

Brunswick Monument

Discover Brunswick Monument in Geneva, Switzerland: An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.

Morro Castle Trophy Cannon

Discover Morro Castle Trophy Cannon in Westford, Massachusetts: An artifact taken from one of America's shortest wars.

Goddess on the Throne

Discover Goddess on the Throne in Prishtina: A Neolithic statuette of a goddess or the definitive proof that extra-terrestrials visited Earth 6,000 years ago?

Alicante Zero Level

Discover Alicante Zero Level in Alacant, Spain: Once used to calculate the various levels around the country.

Breman Museum

Discover Breman Museum in Atlanta, United States of America: The largest Jewish museum in the southeastern U.S. houses a permanent Holocasut exhibit emphasizing the strength of its survivors.

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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
To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history. 642 ix
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
To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). 256 vii
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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