kirstybennetts's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

kirstybennetts

A full-time traveller with a passion for off the beaten path destinations and unusual things to see and do in better-known places. I love street art, Soviet-era mosaics and bus stops, abandoned places and concrete, Asian food and gin! Areas I spend most of my travel time: Asia, the Far East, and the New East (Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic states, and Central Asia).

https://www.kathmanduandbeyond.com/

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Sofia, Bulgaria

Raketa Rakia

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

Molly McBride Jacobson

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Sofia, Bulgaria

The Snail House

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

lewblank

Added by lewblank

Storrington, England

South Downs WWII Churchill Tank

An abandoned World War II tank left to rust in the downland.

SarahG

Added by SarahG

Bournemouth, England

Fisherman's Walk Cliff Lift

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

London, England

Down Street Underground Station

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

AmunyAnkhesenra

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London, England

Crystal Palace Subway

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

AmunyAnkhesenra

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London, England

'Treatment Rooms' Mosaic House

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

Added by mariannecarson

London, England

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

PaperTiger

Added by PaperTiger

London, England

Ruins of the Crystal Palace

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

London, England

The King's Cross Ice Well

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Darmon Richter

Added by Darmon Richter

London, England

The Churchill War Rooms

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

London, England

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

London, England

Crossbones Graveyard

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

serflac

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London, England

The Hardy Tree

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

sarahvjanet

Added by sarahvjanet

London, England

Highgate Cemetery

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Stratište Memorial Complex

An abandoned monument remembering the "Pančevo Holocaust" now stands as a shadow of its former self.

Darmon Richter

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Belgrade, Serbia

Tito's Blue Train

Ride in 1960s style on the private luxury train Marshal Josip Tito used to travel around Yugoslavia.

Added by jksinclair

Novi Bečej, Serbia

Arača

Despite being pillaged and destroyed a number over times down the centuries, this historic church still sort of stands.

Grubor

Added by Grubor

Belgrade, Serbia

Ružica Church

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

Dylan

Ulan-Ude, Russia

Rinpoche Bagsha Datsan

Located along Lysaya Mountain, this monastery is home to the largest statue of Buddha in Russia.

alessandro cini

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London, England

Supper Club Tube

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

lukefater

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London, England

God's Own Junkyard

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

FrustratedFormerContributor

Added by FrustratedFormerContributor

Beirut, Lebanon

The Egg

This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit.

Justin Higginbottom

Added by Justin Higginbottom

Khlong Wan, Thailand

Phone Booth Graveyard

This small patch of land is the final resting for these communication relics of the past.

Added by MrOlsson