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2009. OCLC number. 960889351. Atlas Obscura is an American -based online magazine and travel company. [1][2][3][4] It was founded in 2009 by author Joshua Foer and documentary filmmaker/author Dylan Thuras. [4][5] It catalogs unusual and obscure travel destinations via user-generated content. [6] The articles on the website cover a number of ...
Mystery Hole is located in Ansted, West Virginia, near Hawks Nest State Park and Cathedral Falls in West Virginia. Mystery Hole was founded by Donald Wilson in 1973. [1] Mystery Hole, immediately adjacent to the Midland Trail (U.S. Route 60) in Fayette County advertises itself as a gravity -defying wonder. It is reminiscent of tourist traps of ...
1926. Height. 60 ft (18 m) Technical details. Material. Concrete and stone. The Victoria Beach Pirate Tower is a historic 60 ft (18 m) tower in Victoria Beach in Laguna Beach, California. It was built in 1926 and is currently locked from entry. [2] It is inaccessible during high tide.
Atlas Obscura launched in 2009. The web page — the Obscura folks didn’t get back to us — features more than 28,300 places around the globe, about 11,000 of them in the U.S.
April 20, 2001. The Camera Obscura is a large-scale camera obscura, in the Lands End area of the Outer Richmond District in western San Francisco, California. It is located immediately adjacent to the Cliff House, perched on the headlands on the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach. Both the Camera and the Cliff House are owned by the National Park ...
David Plotz. David A. Plotz[3] (born 31 January 1970) [4] is an American journalist and former CEO of Atlas Obscura, an online magazine devoted to discovery and exploration. [5] A writer with Slate since its inception in 1996, Plotz was the online magazine's editor from June 2008 until July 2014, [6] succeeding Jacob Weisberg. [7]
Camera Obscura & World of Illusions is a tourist attraction located in Outlook Tower on the Castlehill section of the Royal Mile close to Edinburgh Castle. The original attraction was founded by entrepreneur Maria Theresa Short in 1835 and was exhibited on Calton Hill. Outlook Tower has been a museum since the late 1890s and is currently home ...
November 4, 2010. (2010-11-04) –. April 27, 2014. (2014-04-27) Oddities is a half-hour documentary / reality television program which follows the operation of an East Village, Manhattan shop which trades in antiques and other rarities. The show premiered on November 4, 2010, and airs on the Discovery Channel and its sister network, the ...