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Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off
Nestled in a quiet neighborhood of Houston, Texas, the National Museum of Funeral History hosts an unlikely collection celebrating our final send-off.
From a visual history of embalming to... »
Unique Collections | Edited by CYNICALifornia, sidb and 3 others
See the sky in a new way through this art installation
The perception of sky is altered through James Turrell's "Tending, (Blue)" at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. After entering through a nearly hidden, glowing glass door in the museum's... »
Museums and Collections, Optical Oddities | Edited by allison and wythe
A sculpture made of ten cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.
Cadillac ranch, built in 1974, is the product of eccentric helium millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 (he doesn't like the Roman numeral III) and The Ant Farm, a San Francisco art collective. The ranch... »
Outsider Art, Unusual Monuments, Outsider Architecture | Edited by FungusFan and Dylan
An urban military fort filled with deer, rabbits, peacocks, and other birds
The imposing limestone Quadrangle shelters one of the most tranquil places in San Antonio. Built in 1876, it is the oldest building in Fort Sam Houston and has for over a century been both an... »
Intriguing Environs | Edited by allison, wythe and others
A beer lover's can covered house
John Milkovisch loved beer. He drank a six pack a day and saved all the cans.
When he retired in the 1960s, he put the cans to good use by covering the exterior of his house with them. Not... »
Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan, Josh and others
A perfect recreation of a Prada Store in the middle of the West Texas desert
The middle of the West Texas desert isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a fully stocked Prada store, but stop a few miles outside of the tiny town of Valentine, Texas and you’ll find just... »
Outsider Architecture | Edited by gabeschwartz, Dylan and others
At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving
Some people wash and wax their cars, making sure that the finish is exactly as clean and shiny as the day they bought it. The art car movement goes in the entirely other direction.
While those... »
Outsider Art | Edited by Alicekh and Dylan
Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer
"The baying of bloodhounds frantically seeking the killer's scent broke into the usual chorus of Yuletide merriment, chilling holiday spirits."
- Austin Statesman, Christmas 1885
In the wake... »
Electrical Oddities, Retro-Tech | Edited by Annetta, Dylan and others
Theater in a former church
Founded in 1998 by Andrea Grover, the first home for Aurora was in a former church building where Grover and her family both lived and worked in the microcinema. Now the home base for Aurora... »
Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Alicekh
Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire
China's Emperor Qin Shi Huang is one of those legendary despotic yet pivitol figures that seem too large to have ever really existed. Yet Qin did exist, and was responsible for the unification of... »
Strange Statues, Small Worlds and Model Towns | Edited by peggysuicide, bopo and 2 others
