j3taylor's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

j3taylor

Just some guy who likes to travel, wander, and look for odd experiences. While I'm currently located in Cave Creek AZ... I get out of the states at least twice a year for work turned into vacations. It's amazing how many places I can check off, based on "latest places" that I've already been to

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Places visited in San Diego, California

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Places edited in Tempe, Arizona

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Places visited in Calipatria, California

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Places visited in Phoenix, Arizona

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Places visited in Mesa, Arizona

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Places edited in Sedona, Arizona

Victoria, British Columbia

The Empress Hotel

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Victoria, British Columbia

Miniature World

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

SamM

Yuma Territorial Prison

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Added by desertfairy

Dateland, Arizona

Sears Point Petroglyphs

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

jbaldwin0928

Added by jbaldwin0928

Buckeye, Arizona

Hobo Joe

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

WhiskeyBristles

Added by WhiskeyBristles

Magoffin Home

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

Added by ianlefk

Phoenix, Arizona

Camelback Mountain

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

rxallen

Added by rxallen

Park of the Canals

This massive, ancient canal system was built using only sticks and stones.

Added by cdanesh

Campo, California

Pacific Southwest Railway Museum

A historic train ride from California to Mexico.

Added by gotmynumbr

Astoria, Oregon

The Astoria Column

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

canuck

Added by canuck

Phoenix, Arizona

Don Parks’ Yard of Statues and Stuff

Phoenix man has two yards full of vintage signs and antiques.

Added by cdanesh

London, England

The Fortnum & Mason Clock

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

Snowdrop68

Added by Snowdrop68

London, England

Floris Perfumery

A storied London perfume shop that supplies scents for royalty has been operating out of this storefront for nearly 300 years.

SEANETTA

Added by SEANETTA

Williams, Arizona

Sultana Bar

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

rachelrummel

Added by rachelrummel

Phoenix, Arizona

Sunnyslope Rock Garden

This trippy wonderland is the result of one man's obsessive, decades long passion project.

Added by are we there yet

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg Cyclorama

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Bench of Irony

While seemingly a cruel joke, this bench actually honors an esteemed member of the community who passed away in 2006.

Traveling Maven

Added by Traveling Maven

Millennium Camera

A camera with an ongoing exposure time of 1,000 years.

Added by cdanesh

Phoenix, Arizona

Relics of the USS Arizona

Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.

WhiskeyBristles

Added by WhiskeyBristles

Guadalupe Cemetery

A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.

ShelleyMingo

Added by ShelleyMingo

Fort Rock, Oregon

Derrick Cave

This lava tube cave was once a Cold War fallout shelter.

slgwv

Miners Rock Shop

A family-owned store specializing in minerals, geodes, gemstones, and more.

Added by jkulesha151

Vintage Lasers and Holograms

Over 100 lasers, including huge ones that look straight off a sci-fi set.

Added by robotortoise

Phoenix, Arizona

Hanny's

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

ascoldashoth

Added by ascoldashoth