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Henrick
Recent Activity
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August 16, 2011
Henrick
liked International Banana Club Museum
World's largest collection devoted to one fruit
It all started at a photography convention in 1972, when Ken Bannister, VP of a manufacturing company, passed out Chiquita banana stickers to people he encountered. The goal, he said, was simply... »
Unique Collections | Edited by anhie
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August 16, 2011
Henrick
liked Portmeirion
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June 17, 2011
Henrick
added Angel Wine Tower
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May 31, 2011
Henrick
liked It Wasn't Meant To End Like This
Digger attempting to hide itself under 300 tons of rubble
It Wasn't Meant To End Like This, an enormous mechanical digger that looks like it has buried itself under 300 tons of rubble and trash, is the latest installation at Sculpture by the Sea festival... »
Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by Nicholas Jackson
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April 30, 2011
Henrick
added Donald McGill Seaside Postcard Museum
Obscene versions of this artist's work are the most popular
An English graphic artists whose name has become synonymous with a whole genre of saucy and obscene seaside art that was sold mostly in small shops in many British coastal towns, Donald McGill is... »
Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by Henrick and Nicholas Jackson
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April 9, 2011
Henrick
updated the The Torture Museum
Museum preserving torture methods from the past
The Torture Museum in Amsterdam reveals the dark history of a time when justice was meted out by sticks and spikes. It is composed of a few darkly lit corridors and prints displaying tortures... »
Unique Collections, Crime and Punishment | Edited by michelle, Dylan and 4 others
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March 23, 2011
Henrick
has been to Hampton Court Maze
England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years
The Hampton Court hedge maze is the oldest surviving hedge maze in the United Kingdom, a multicursal (unlike a labyrinth which is single path or 'unicursal' in a maze which is 'multicursal' a... »
Mazes | Edited by re_nakaba
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March 22, 2011
Henrick
liked The Margate Shell Grotto
Subterranean passageway covered in mosaics created entirely of seashells
Located in Margate, Kent, The Shell Grotto’s walls and roof are covered in mosaics made entirely of seashells, totaling about 2,000 square feet of mosaic, or 4.6 million shells.
The age of the... »
Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship, Follies and Grottoes, Incredible Ruins, Outsider Architecture, Subterranean Sites, Obscura Day Location | Edited by Lily Landes and Nicholas Jackson
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March 22, 2011
Henrick
commented on a blog post: New Obscura Day T-Shirts
Super design and I was relieved to see that there are other colors available
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March 22, 2011
Henrick
liked World's Largest Six-Pack
Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years
Originally the G. Heileman Brewing Company Old Style brewery, and later the La Crosse brewery, it was an unknown genius who, in 1969, realized that the six enormous beer tanks at this site, made... »
Unusual Monuments | Edited by A Facebook user, Dylan and others
Super design and I was relieved to see that there are other colors available