Jonathann Gougnon's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Jonathann Gougnon

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Places visited in Heimaey, Iceland

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Places visited in Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia

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Places visited in Kharkhorin, Mongolia

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Places visited in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France

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Places visited in Bonifacio, France

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Places visited in Chichicastenango, Guatemala

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mütter Museum

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Added by mbison

Villa de Leyva, Colombia

Museo El Fósil

A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.

quiubosimone

Added by quiubosimone

Mormon Genealogical Archives

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

Added by LongNow

Kennecott Utah Copper-Bingham Canyon Mine

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Hand of the Desert

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Atacama Giant

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Nazca Lines

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

Huehuetlán, Mexico

Sótano de las Golondrinas (Cave of Swallows)

The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.

Xilitla, Mexico

Las Pozas

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

El Rosario, Mexico

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

Added by E Alvarado Reyes

Teuchitlán, Mexico

Guachimontones

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

Added by Macuahuitl

Ceballos, Mexico

Mapimí Silent Zone

A US military accident created the legends behind this Mexican version of the Bermuda Triangle.

Guatemala City, Guatemala

Great Guatemalan Sinkhole

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

gabeschwartz

Added by gabeschwartz

Belle Rose, Louisiana

Bayou Corne Sinkhole

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

Added by alexfbyoung

Río Celeste

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Rockall, Scotland

Rockall

British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.

PaperTiger

Added by PaperTiger

Lake Sørvágsvatn

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

jase

Eaglehawk Neck, Australia

Eaglehawk Neck Tessellated Pavement

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Isle of Staffa, Scotland

Fingal's Cave

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Dylan

Madinet Mit Ghamr, Egypt

Mit Ghamr Dovecotes

Giant pigeon houses packed into city streets in Egypt.

serflac

Added by serflac

Gerlach, Nevada

Fly Geyser

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Tre

The Blue City of Jodhpur

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

daviddoochin

Added by daviddoochin

Derawar, Pakistan

Derawar Fort

Massive fortress bastions in the desert of Cholistan.

Added by Tawsam

Dhar Lama Chung Chung, India

Key Monastery

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser