Isaac Michan is fascinated by the uncanny, by that fine line between the overly familiar and the eerily unrecognizable. The 34-year-old founder of Michan Architecture—a Mexico City–based studio ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Venture down into the dark, musty stone vaults beneath St. Michan ...

Completed in 2020 in Ciudad de México, Mexico. Images by Rafael Buzali, Alexandra Bové, Rafael Gamo. This project is a residential building in Mexico City consisting of seven 1-2 bedroom apartments ...

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The vaults at St Michan’s Church on Church Street in north inner-city Dublin reopened to the public, after being closed since February 25th, due to the theft of a mummified head and skull. Both were ...

Mummified remains housed at St. Michan's Church in Dublin are thought to be destroyed after a fire was lit on the premises on Tuesday evening, June 11. An Garda Síochána said that they and emergency ...

In 2021, the Mexico City–based architect Isaac Michan received a commission to radically transform a functionalist apartment block in the well-heeled neighborhood of La Condesa. The building had been ...

Forget about Egypt! There are mummies, who are believed to have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula, right in the heart of Dublin city center. Each week in 2020, IrishCentral is choosing a top Irish ...

This week’s fire at St Michan’s Church in Dublin which damaged a number of mummified remains is not the first instance of vandalism at the Church of Ireland site which dates from 1095. A report in ...