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Duck_Muscle
San Francisco resident with a knack for bizarre attractions and spooky spots. Also a Yelp Elite, geocacher and marathon runner.
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Places I have been to
I have been to The Vacuum Cleaner Museum, Vaux's Swifts at Chapman School, The Peace Fountain at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Billy's Antiques and Props, RMS Titanic Memorial, Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital, The Highline, Pneumatic System of the New York Public Library, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, The Lightship Frying Pan, Musee Mecanique , Lago de Atitlán, Skytop Quarry, Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel, Defenestration, The Winchester Mystery House, Balmy Alley Murals, Gum Wall, Seattle Underground , Forbes Island Barge, Exploratorium, Golden Gate Park Bison, House of Air, La Isla de los Alcatraces: Alcatraz Island, Albany Bulb, Neon Boneyard, Marin Headlands, St. Mary's College, Mystery Spot, Enchanted Forest Theme Park, Mount Tamalpais Aircraft Crash Site, Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship, Blue Mustang, Union Square Metronome, Jeffrey's Hook Light and New York Marble Cemetery
Places I like
I like The Vacuum Cleaner Museum, Vaux's Swifts at Chapman School, Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital, The Highline, The Lightship Frying Pan, Musee Mecanique , Lago de Atitlán, Forbes Island Barge, Albany Bulb, Skytop Quarry, St. Mary's College, Neon Boneyard, Mystery Spot, Enchanted Forest Theme Park, Mount Tamalpais Aircraft Crash Site, The Flintstone House and Blue Mustang
Recent Activity
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May 2, 2012
Duck_Muscle
has been to New York Marble Cemetery
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen"
From a wrought iron gate on Second Avenue, an alleyway leads secluded garden, barely visible from the busy sidewalk. Although there are no headstones or monuments, this is the New York Marble... »
Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by allison, Dylan and 2 others
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May 2, 2012
Duck_Muscle
has been to Jeffrey's Hook Light
Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge
One of the last standing lighthouses in all of Manhattan, Jeffrey's Hook Light is a small structure that stands almost directly under the George Washington Bridge on the New York side.... »
Architectural Oddities | Edited by amberjol, spinkk and 2 others
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May 2, 2012
Duck_Muscle
has been to Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York
No visit to New York's Union Square is complete without pondering, and then subsequently becoming frustrated with the Metronome, a digital display of 15 numbers changing at various speeds,... »
Astounding Timepieces | Edited by Henry
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May 2, 2012
Duck_Muscle
has been to Blue Mustang
Cursed 32-foot-tall sculpture of a mustang horse
The “Blue Mustang” sculpture was created by the widely recognized artist, Luis Jiménez, whose previous works are displayed in numerous museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in... »
Architectural Oddities | Edited by ronin and Nicholas Jackson
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May 2, 2012
Duck_Muscle
has been to Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship
"A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was"
A 40-ft-tall rocket ship glimmers in the sunlight on the rare occasion that the San Francisco fog allows it, and against the backdrop of the waterfront and the majestic Bay Bridge, this... »
Outsider Art, Strange Statues, Retro-Tech | Edited by DrArroganto and Rachel
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March 2, 2012
Duck_Muscle
added The Flintstone House
A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280
Drivers heading north to San Francisco on Interstate 280 will notice a peculiar home just east of the Eugene A. Doran Memorial Bridge. The house, playfully nicknamed by Bay Area residents as The... »
Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Duck_Muscle, Rachel and others
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February 9, 2012
Duck_Muscle
added Mount Tamalpais Aircraft Crash Site
Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy
On a wet and windy night in late November 1944, a US Navy plane crashed into Mount Tamalpais and killed eight aviators and crew. The aircraft had taken off from Naval Air Station in Alameda when... »
Disaster Areas, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Duck_Muscle, Annetta and others
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February 7, 2012
Duck_Muscle
updated the The JELL-O Gallery
The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert
Have you always wondered how that wiggly Jell-O castle that your great aunt serves every Thanksgiving became "America's most famous desert", regardless of it's physically mystifying structure?... »
Museums and Collections | Edited by OrangeRavens, Rachel and others
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February 7, 2012
Duck_Muscle
added Enchanted Forest Theme Park
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall
Opening in 1955 (a month after Disneyland), The Enchanted Forest was a roadside amusement park in Ellicott City, Maryland that featured figures from nursery rhymes and fairy tales.
Visitors... »
Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Duck_Muscle and Rachel
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February 6, 2012
Duck_Muscle
liked Mystery Spot
A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California
Described as an "ineffable, natural phenomenon that cannot be described or explained," the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz, California is one of many such "gravitational anomalies" located around the... »
Mystery Spots and Gravity Hills, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by cjwvos and Dylan
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December 14, 2011
Duck_Muscle
added St. Mary's College
The ruins of a religious preparatory school in a seemingly non-existent town
On a ridge overlooking the Patapsco River and adjacent to the Ilchester Paper Mill sits the ruins of St. Mary’s College. The former religious school, which opened in the 1890s, prepared hundreds... »
Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Duck_Muscle and atimian
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October 15, 2011
Duck_Muscle
has been to Marin Headlands
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October 15, 2011
Duck_Muscle
has been to Neon Boneyard
The neon-lit night sky of Las Vegas is one of the iconic sights of the 20th century. It is the peculiar mix of the burlesque, kitsch, and retro modern that has marked the visual identity of an... »
Unique Collections | Edited by stanestane, Annetta and others
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September 21, 2011
Duck_Muscle
has been to Albany Bulb
An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library"
Certain places exist in a kind of urban vacuum. They decay, change and grow without the approval of authorities, and without blueprints. These places are often the domain of societies... »
Outsider Art | Edited by garfieldgurl, michelle and others
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September 21, 2011
Duck_Muscle
has been to La Isla de los Alcatraces: Alcatraz Island
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully...or so they claim
Alcatraz, also referred to as “The Rock,” is rich in American history, more so than most people realize. It is the home of the oldest operating lighthouse on the west coast, a Civil War fortress... »
Crime and Punishment | Edited by AllisonEng, Nicholas Jackson and 2 others
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September 21, 2011
Duck_Muscle
has been to House of Air
Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline
It's not your typical wondrous place, but it's definitely curious: An old airplane hangar in the Presidio of San Francisco has been retrofitted as a giant trampoline park open to the public. To... »
Commercial Curiosities | Edited by Nicholas Jackson
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September 21, 2011
Duck_Muscle
has been to Golden Gate Park Bison
San Francisco's very own urban bison herd have persisted in the face of extinction, development and tuberculosis
The first bison, named Ben Harrison, was purchased by Park Superintendent John McClaren on February 26, 1891. His arrival in San Francisco coincided with the historical nadir in bison population,... »
Fascinating Fauna | Edited by littlebrumble
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September 21, 2011
Duck_Muscle
has been to Exploratorium
Hands-On Science built on the rubble of the 1906 Earthquake, and hiding a few choice exhibits
In 1906, a massive earthquake hit San Francisco, and the “ham and egg” fires - named such because they were started by a family cooking breakfast with an earthquake damaged chimney - that followed... »
Strange Science | Edited by Tre and Nicholas Jackson
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September 21, 2011
Duck_Muscle
has been to Forbes Island Barge
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September 21, 2011
Duck_Muscle
has been to Seattle Underground
A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle
Shops, bars, and hotels from Seattle's earliest years lay abandoned below the city streets in the Pioneer Park neighborhood.
In 1889, a fire raged through the fledgling city, razing much of the... »
Incredible Ruins, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Annetta
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September 21, 2011
Duck_Muscle
has been to Gum Wall
A Wall of Chewing Gum Moonlights as Collective Art
Down an unassuming side street by Seattle's famed Pike Place Market is a hidden work of art dubbed the Gum Wall or the Wall of Gum. The unassuming and unexpected display is an excellent... »
Outsider Art, Architectural Oddities | Edited by S Lee
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May 30, 2011
Duck_Muscle
has been to Balmy Alley Murals
Stunning street art as political theater for the masses
In the heart of the Mission District lies the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco. Renowned for their political import and reverential maintenance, Balmy Alley has become a... »
Outsider Art | Edited by littlebrumble and Annetta
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May 30, 2011
Duck_Muscle
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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May 10, 2011
Duck_Muscle
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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November 16, 2010
Duck_Muscle
has been to Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel
