Our Favorite New Places This Week

Each week, we highlight a selection of extraordinary new places submitted by you—our Atlas Obscura community of curious travelers. Where will you go next?

Alyko Hotel Ruins

This beachside resort hotel project on the island of Naxos was halted in the 1970s, and has been frozen in time ever since. It has been drawing graffiti artists from around the world for years. — Contributed by jakechouston

estorm / Atlas Obscura User

Fossil Lake Safari Quarry

Visitors can split rocks to find 52 million-year-old fish fossils at this quarry in western Wyoming, on land that used to be the bed of a prehistoric lake. — Contributed by estorm

Max Cortesi / Atlas Obscura User

Eiffel Tower of Lahore

There are many replicas of the Eiffel Tower in the world, but this one stands in especially stark contrast to its surroundings in Pakistan’s second-largest city. Funded by the government, it was constructed in just 120 days and rises to about a third the height of the original in Paris. — Contributed by Max Cortesi

Shawn M. Kent

Balancing Rock

On the shore of the Digby Neck, a Canadian peninsula jutting out into the Bay of Fundy, stands the remarkable sight of this stone, startlingly upright above the waters. It looks precarious, as if it might fall at any moment. But visitors report that seeing it in person is worth the one-mile hike. — Contributed by jdstillwater