Atlas Obscura Picks Best Halloween Spots For Ga. And Beyond
BKXN71 Derweze or Darvaza, aka as the Door to Hell is a huge crater of burning natural gas in the Kara-kum desert in Turkmenistan.. Image shot 08/2009. Exact date unknown.
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Too old to trick-or-treat?
Then we have some bone-chilling suggestions for you, if you’re feeling a little adventurous. Atlas Obscura is a virtual guidebook to our world’s hidden and curious wonders. Now, Atlas Obscura is offering a sampling of those curiosities in the form of a “real” (read: hardback) book, subtitled “An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders.”
In an interview for “City Lights,” Atlas Obscura co-founder Dylan Thuras and associate editor Ella Morton offered a few of their choice destinations for a macabre Halloween night out in Georgia and around the world.
Dylan’s local pick is the Doll’s Head Trail, a trail through Constitution Lakes Park strewn with, well, doll’s heads and other repurposed artifacts found onsite.
“At first blush, it would be really creepy,” Dylan admits, but once you dig a little deeper, the trail’s story is actually “of artistic and environmental benevolence.”
That’s really the key to Atlas Obscura’s success: they tell the stories behind places that may seem strange or even repulsive, at least on the surface. Where locales like Doll’s Head Trail or the Atlanta Prison Farm would have been previously ignored or marginalized, Atlas Obscura’s hope is “to really honor those places and give them their due.”
For her part, Ella Morton’s local pick is Savannah, Georgia’s Dotson Runway Graves, the only two gravestones known to be embedded in an airport runway. The graves predate the runway, and the deceased’s family stipulated that the graves remain undisturbed if the Savannah airport wished to build a runway. So if you happen to fly to Savannah, keep an eye out for two flush gravestones on the tarmac, and pay your respects at the final resting place of Richard and Catherine Dotson.
“Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders” is on sale now.
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