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Avi B
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Places I have been to
I have been to Holy Land, U.S.A., Hotel Majestic, Battery Chamberlin, Zeum Carousel, Defenestration, Musee Mecanique , House on the Rock, The American Visionary Art Museum, Palace of wonders, The Great Stalacpipe Organ, Acorn Park, The Highline, Carlsbad Caverns, Makhtesh Ramon, Meah Shearim, Immovable Ladder on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Confusion Hill, Marin Headlands, Crystal Cathedral, Cabazon Dinosaurs, The Winchester Mystery House, Great Boston Molasses Flood Plaque and Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum
Places I like
I like Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum
Recent Activity
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April 22, 2010
Avi B
has been to Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum
An original apothecary from 1792
Surviving the War of 1812, the 1821 Yellow Fever Epidemic, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War of 1898, and World War I, this apothecary, started by Quaker Edward Stabler, has stood in the... »
Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Great Boston Molasses Flood Plaque
Site of one of the strangest disasters in history: a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph
At the intersection of Foster and Commercial Street in Boston’s industrial North End, is a curious historical site. Marked by a small, easily missed plaque is the location of a moment in Boston... »
Disaster Areas | Edited by michelle
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to The Winchester Mystery House
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled Winchester widow
A bizarre mansion built by Sarah Winchester, the heir to the rifle fortune, this 160-room estate abounds with architectural oddities. Originally seven stories, now only four the 1906 earthquake,... »
Follies and Grottoes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Cabazon Dinosaurs
"World's biggest dinosaur" featured in Pee Wee's Big Adventure, now houses a creationist museum in its abdomen
For the past 35 years, travelers driving west on Interstate 10 in Southern California have been greeted by Dinny the Dinosaur, a 150-foot-long recreation of an apatosaurus, whose owners have given... »
Natural History, Strange Statues, Commercial Curiosities | Edited by anhie
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Crystal Cathedral
Megachurch comprised of 10,000 glass panes and site of world's most-watched televangelist program
The Crystal Cathedral is an all-glass megachurch located in Garden Grove, California. Designed by architect Philip Johnson in 1977 and completed in 1980, the building earns its name for its... »
Curious Places of Worship | Edited by anhie
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Marin Headlands
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Confusion Hill
An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest
It has been suggested that instead of calling "images that differ from objective reality," optical illusions, they should instead be called "brain fails," which is in effect, exactly what they... »
Mystery Spots and Gravity Hills | Edited by Clinton
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Immovable Ladder on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights then holy revelations
The immovable ladder of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a religious symbol of a sort, a kind of miracle possible only through human folly. It is also one of the most powerful and iconic... »
Incredible Ruins | Edited by stanestane
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Meah Shearim
Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim
Bookended by walls of signs in Hebrew and English detailing a strict dress code and a hard-line approach to public morality, Meah Shearim can be considered the most ideologically unique... »
Intriguing Environs, Micro-Nations | Edited by Incendiary and stanestane
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Makhtesh Ramon
A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert
Makhtesh Ramon is the largest of Israel’s bizarre geological formations called makhteshim (literally, “craters”).
Thought for many years to be an impact crater, the result of a meteor... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by gabeschwartz, Dylan and others
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Carlsbad Caverns
Second largest cave chamber in the world, discovered in 1898 by a sixteen year old and his friend known as "pothead"
Caving, particularly in an unexplored cave, is a dangerous hobby. Even with the most modern equipment, many things can go wrong, and a serious injury can trap the caver underground.
However in... »
Curious Caves | Edited by A Facebook user
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to The Highline
Elevated freight railway turned urban park
For the latter years of the 20th century, abandoned, decrepit and overgrown, this elevated railway on Manhattan's West Side was the domain of pigeons, squirrels and curious urban explorers. But... »
Outsider Architecture | Edited by jh2ohouse, Henry and others
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Acorn Park
Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring
Marking the site of the original "silver" spring, after which Silver Spring, Maryland was named, this giant acorn-shaped gazebo and surrounding .12-acre park are all that remains of Silver Spring... »
Architectural Oddities, Follies and Grottoes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by sshistory
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to The Great Stalacpipe Organ
An organ located deep within a cave and whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself
Deep in the Luray Caverns of Virginia sits the largest musical instrument in the world. The Great Stalacpipe Organ appears at first to be a normal looking organ, but instead of pipes, the organ is... »
Curious Caves, Musical Wonders, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Dylan and Henry
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Palace of wonders
Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past
The Palace of Wonders (now known as the Red Palace) has two floors over-flowing with an eye-popping array of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past. The... »
Bizarre Restaurants and Bars | Edited by michelle, leiris and others
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to The American Visionary Art Museum
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to House on the Rock
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Musee Mecanique
A collection of 20th century automatons, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions
One of the last remaining links to San Francisco's oceanside Playland at the Beach amusement park, the Musee Mecanique is a unique hands-on arcade of vintage coin-operated contraptions of all... »
Unique Collections, Amazing Automata | Edited by Dylan, theamarant and 2 others
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Defenestration
Furniture tries to escape an abandonded building in San Francisco
Standing on Howard Street in front of a wall of graffiti, look up and try not to flinch. A Grandfather clock appears to be falling out of the window of the abandoned tenement building. Upon a... »
Outsider Art, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Tre, michelle and others
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Zeum Carousel
A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past
A veritable still life zoo, the Zeum Carousel in San Francisco's Children's Museum has been giving rides to delighted children and adults alike for over 100 years. Still operational, it has more... »
Amazing Automata, Outsider Architecture | Edited by re_nakaba
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Battery Chamberlin
Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904
The Lowell Battery Chamberlin was named after Civil War hero Lowell A. Chamberlin, who served with distinction as an artillery officer until his death in 1899. The Lowell Battery was designed and... »
Inspired Inventions | Edited by re_nakaba
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Hotel Majestic
San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor
The Hotel Majestic is a charming, elegant hotel, useful for escaping the hustle and bustle of Union Square and the Financial District, though still close to San Francisco's famous historical cable... »
Odd Accommodations | Edited by re_nakaba
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April 21, 2010
Avi B
has been to Holy Land, U.S.A.
An abandoned, religious-themed amusement park
In the early 1950s John Baptist Greco, a staunch Roman Catholic, had a vision of a roadside theme park devoted to God. By the end of the decade, he had created exactly that: a theme park built to... »
Ghost Towns, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Dylan, michelle and others
