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• November 18, 2011 Henri has been to Somerset House
  

  London, United Kingdom

  Somerset House

  A place to immerge yourself with Art, Culture and Creativity.

  Excellent place to discover when visiting London. In fact, a real surprise, because once you are reaching the building either from the Thames side or from the Strand you are intrigued by the... »

  Outsider Architecture | Edited by Byron

• June 24, 2011 Henri updated the Big Banana
  

  Coffs Harbour, Australia

  Big Banana

  One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia

  Australia is home to more than just a couple of big things. The big country, it has been said, has a love of similarly-oversized objects. The Big Banana is only one of a loosely related set of... »

  Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by Nicholas Jackson and Henri

• May 20, 2011 Henri liked Watari-Kashiwabara's Pylon 24
  

  Uchihara-machi, Japan

  Watari-Kashiwabara's Pylon 24

  Only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic

  Pylon 24 in Uchihara, a town in Ibaraki, Japan's Higashiibaraki District, is the only electricity pylon in the world that has been constructed over a two-lane road. It is a part of the powerline... »

  Inspired Inventions, Electrical Oddities | Edited by Alpha and Nicholas Jackson

• March 26, 2011 Henri liked Museum of Neon Art
  

  Museum of Neon Art

  The ultimate night-light

  This one-of-a-kind museum was founded in 1981 by artists Lili Lakich and Richard Jenkins. Focused on showing off art of this very unique medium, the museum rotates items in its permanent... »

  Museums and Collections, Outsider Art, Unique Collections | Edited by Genki and OrangeRavens

• March 25, 2011 Henri liked Sol Cinema
  

  Wales, United Kingdom

  Sol Cinema

  World's smallest solar-powered movie theater

  Winner of the first place prize for best communication project in the Network Wales Awards, the Sol Cinema is the world's smallest solar-powered movie theater. Housed inside of a 1960s-era travel... »

  Inspired Inventions, Electrical Oddities, Commercial Curiosities, Purveyors of Curiosities, Odd Accommodations | Edited by Nicholas Jackson

• March 12, 2011 Henri updated the Chernobyl's Ghost Cities
  

  Chornobyl', Ukraine

  Chernobyl's Ghost Cities

  Visit the abandoned towns left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time

  When one thinks of Chernobyl, vacation spot is certainly not the first thing to come to mind. However, more than two decades after the terrible reactor meltdown, tours of the contaminated towns... »

  Disaster Areas, Cultures and Civilizations , Incredible Ruins | Edited by Delireus, mrobscurity and 2 others

• March 11, 2011 Henri posted to the forums: Slow Site and Script Error Messages
  Hi I am a newcomer here and it looks like a brillaint resource to discover more wonders of the world, however, I keep getting script error messages telling me that they will cause internet browser to run slow - an by golly the pages do take ages to load. Is this normal?
• March 11, 2011 Henri has been to Wellcome Collection & Library
  

  London, United Kingdom

  Wellcome Collection & Library

  Curios of Pharmacist and Collector Henry Wellcome

  Born in Wisconsin in 1853 (five years after the state had been incorporated in the Union), Henry Wellcome studied medicine first hand at a young age, helping his uncle. At 17, he apprenticed... »

  Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Strange Science, Pharmacy Museums, Medical Museums, Unique Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Annetta and others

• March 11, 2011 Henri has been to Old Operating Theatre
  

  London, United Kingdom

  Old Operating Theatre

  In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanestisized patients

  Housed in the attic of St. Thomas Church, Britan's oldest surviving operating theater looks much as it might have in 1822. One surgeon who operated there described it thus: "the first two rows... »

  Pharmacy Museums, Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan, Henry and 2 others