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Tesla's Wardenclyffe Laboratory

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth

Wardenclyffe Laboratory is the last remaining research facility of Nikola Tesla, the famed Serb physicist whose bold ideas about electricity led to the development of alternating current motors... »

Instruments of Science, Electrical Oddities, Retro-Tech, Incredible Ruins, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Trevor

Yamaboko Festival in Kyoto

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869

In 869 Kyoto was struck by an massive epidemic. In order to end the plague and appease the gods, Emperor Seiwa requested the head priest of the Yasaka Shrine to hold a procession to remove the... »

Cultures and Civilizations , Wondrous Performances, Rites and Rituals | Edited by spinkk and Dylan

Bigfoot Discovery Museum

Roadside attraction and Bigfoot Museum

Michael Rugg and Paula Yarr are co-founders of the Bigfoot Discovery Project or "BDP." The BDP accepts the subject of the Patterson/Gimlin Film (the famous blurry 'bigfoot' film) as the type... »

Fascinating Fauna, Museums and Collections, Strange Science, Unique Collections | Edited by GregRose and Dylan

Clock Museum

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999

The Viennese Clock Museum is housed in the Harfenhaus (Harpist's House), one of the oldest homes in Vienna. With around 1,000 clocks in all, there is much to see, from ornate pocket watches, to a... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Inspired Inventions, Astounding Timepieces, Long Now Locations | Edited by Dylan

Bory Castle

Hungarian self-built castle

One of two self-built castles in Hungary (the other is the much more ramshackle Tarodi Var), Bory Castle was the work of Hungarian sculptor and architect Jeno Bory. Bory built the castle between... »

Architectural Oddities, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and Henry

Museum of floating debris

A museum where you can see debris caught out of the water

On the area of Finsing Hydroelectric Plant, there is an exhibition of debris, which were caught by the maintenance staff of the hydroelectricpower plants in Munich area out of the water. The... »

Unique Collections | Edited by Alpha

The Manzana de las Luces

A Gateway to an Underground Tunnel Network

The Manzana de las Luces, or “Block of the Lights”, housed the activities of the early Jesuit missionaries in the nascent Buenos Aires, and as a complex comprises the church of San Ignacio, a... »

Subterranean Sites | Edited by and Dylan

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Submarine Museum

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

The JMSDF Submarine Museum's three-story brick building, opened in 2006, is dwarfed by the submarine Akishio, mounted on steel cradles between the museum and Kure's busy downtown street. The... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Unusual Monuments, Retro-Tech | Edited by spinkk, Dylan and others

Palacio Barolo

A tower devoted to - and modeled after - the Divine Comedy

Located a minute's walk from Argentina's national legislature, at the end of Buenos Aires' Avenida de Mayo, the Palacio Barolo, once South America's tallest building, still towers above the... »

Commercial Curiosities, Outsider Architecture, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by , Dylan and others

Michael Faraday Memorial

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer

At the center of a busy traffic interchange of Elephant and Castle sits a gleaming stainless steel box that has perplexed south Londoners for decades. Depending on which urban legend is favored... »

Unusual Monuments, Electrical Oddities, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Trevor and Dylan

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