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Lily Landes
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Places I have been to
I have been to Heidelberg Project, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, Nitt Witt Ridge, Floating Bridge of Brookfield, VT, Albany Bulb, The Bone Room, Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, Mütter Museum, The Museum of Holography, Johnson Museum of the Odd, Carhenge, Urban Ore, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, 24 Hour Church of Elvis, Cadillac Ranch, Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Fremont Troll, 3D Center of Art and Photography, Musee Mecanique , San Luis Obispo's Bubblegum Alley, Chandelier Tree, Cano's Castle, Packrat Antiques, Tree Graveyard, Madonna Inn, Dog Chapel , Kidd's Toy Museum, Tallest Filing Cabinet on Earth, Bread and Puppet Museum and Theater, Hall of Mosses, Hole in the Rock, Broken Angel, Harry's Occult Shop , Waterloo Village and Centralia
Places I like
I like Root Beer Saloon, Raven's Grin Inn, The Museum of the Weird, Salvation Mountain, The Troll Museum, Velveteria: The Velvet Painting Museum, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, New Hamburg's Curious Guests, Graceland Too, Minister's Tree House, Seattle Underground , Camera Obscura & Holograph Collection, Bishop's Castle, Venice Beach Freakshow, National Hobo Convention, The Devil's Sinkhole, Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden , World's Largest Collection of The World's Smallest Versions of The World's Largest Things, Giant Clothespin Sculpture, Gopher Hole Museum, Historical Dental Museum, Collyer Brothers Park, Mary's Gone Wild Folk Art and Doll Baby Museum, American Museum of Magic, Palace of wonders, Weeki Wachee: City of Live Mermaids, House of Balls and Victoria’s Way Indian Sculpture Park
Recent Activity
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May 18, 2011
Lily Landes
has been to Centralia
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire
Though its exact cause has been disputed, the fire underneath Centralia, Pennsylvania ignited sometime in 1962 and has been burning ever since.
The town sits on top of a rich vein of coal, and... »
Fiery Wonders, Ghost Towns, Disaster Areas | Edited by Dave, Josh and others
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March 17, 2011
Lily Landes
liked Victoria’s Way Indian Sculpture Park
An eccentric garden of Indian sculptures in the green of Ireland
The unusual spiritual visions of an Irishman were created in stone by craftsmen in Mahabalipuram, India, and now populate a sculpture park in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Covering 22 acres, the... »
Strange Statues, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by Annetta and wythe
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March 7, 2011
Lily Landes
added Catacombs of San Gennaro
Underground paleo-Christian burial site, composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas
The Catacombs of San Gennaro (St. Januarius) are considered by many to be the most significant paleo-Christian ruins in Italy south of Rome. They are situated in the northern part of the city, on... »
Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship, Incredible Ruins, Subterranean Sites, Obscura Day Location | Edited by Lily Landes and Nicholas Jackson
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March 7, 2011
Lily Landes
liked House of Balls
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March 7, 2011
Lily Landes
added 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 7, 2011
Lily Landes
updated the The House of Automata
Automata Shop, Workshop and Exhibition
The House of Automata is in new premises in Kinloss, near Inverness NE Scotland. Run by Michael and Maria Start, professional automata restorers and "dedicated to promoting knowledge of the... »
Amazing Automata | Edited by A Facebook user, Dylan and 2 others
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February 25, 2011
Lily Landes
has been to Waterloo Village
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February 11, 2011
Lily Landes
added Harry's Occult Shop
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February 10, 2011
Lily Landes
liked Weeki Wachee: City of Live Mermaids
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors
Long before Disney World became the staple of Florida's tourism industry, there was Weeki Wachee, the City of Live Mermaids. Since opening its doors in 1947, Weeki Wachee has attracted thousands... »
Watery Wonders, Wondrous Performances, Subterranean Sites | Edited by anhie and wythe
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February 10, 2011
Lily Landes
liked 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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February 10, 2011
Lily Landes
liked American Museum of Magic
Largest magic museum in the United States holds more than half a million pieces of memorabilia
Presto Change-o! Founded in 1978, the American Museum of Magic has been around for more than three decades, but that's only a blip in the history of the building in which it resides, an old... »
Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Unique Collections | Edited by Nicholas Jackson
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February 10, 2011
Lily Landes
liked Mary's Gone Wild Folk Art and Doll Baby Museum
Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art
North Carolina artist Mary Paulsen says God has spoken to her twice. The first time, in 1996, he told her to build a village of houses for her collection of 6,000 dolls. The second time, in 1998,... »
Outsider Art, Outsider Architecture | Edited by elaelaela and Nicholas Jackson
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February 9, 2011
Lily Landes
liked Collyer Brothers Park
Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk
Collyer Brothers Park is a small pocket park in Harlem, providing a temporary reprieve from the surrounding urban sprawl. But visitors taking a break on one of the park's benches may be surprised... »
Unusual Monuments | Edited by PaperTiger and Nicholas Jackson
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February 7, 2011
Lily Landes
updated the Mummers Museum
A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older then Philadelphia itself
The first question people tend to have when they hear about the mummers museum is "what is a mummer?"
Imagine a roving group of drunken masked revelers, demanding food, drink, and a singing... »
Museums and Collections, Outsider Art, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan and Lily Landes
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February 7, 2011
Lily Landes
liked Historical Dental Museum
Museum boasting a bucket of teeth and the tale of a twentieth-century dental circus
Show girls, singing and dancing. A band with blasting bugles. A dental chair poised, at the ready, in the bed of a horse-drawn wagon. And there at the center of it all is Painless Parker, dressed... »
Medical Museums, Instruments of Science | Edited by michelle and wythe
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January 31, 2011
Lily Landes
has been to Broken Angel
An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn
Described as "a moonshine distillery gone crazy" and a "Rubik's Cube of a spaceship," Broken Angel is an ever growing piece of outsider architecture in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood. Begun... »
Outsider Architecture | Edited by Josh and Dylan
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January 28, 2011
Lily Landes
liked Gopher Hole Museum
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January 27, 2011
Lily Landes
has been to Hole in the Rock
A house carved into a rock
Travelers along U.S. Highway 191 in Southeastern Utah are amazed to discover this unique 5,000 square foot home carved directly into the rock. Inside are fourteen fabulous rooms arranged around... »
Eccentric Homes | Edited by As she is spoke
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January 25, 2011
Lily Landes
added Hall of Mosses
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January 25, 2011
Lily Landes
liked Giant Clothespin Sculpture
Sculpture designed by Turkish artist and professor Mehmet Ali Uysal
Built for the Festival of the Five Seasons in Chaudfontaine Park, which lies on the outskirts of Liege, Belgium, a giant clothespin sculpture appears to be holding on to a mound of dirt and grass.... »
Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Nicholas Jackson
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January 24, 2011
Lily Landes
has been to Bread and Puppet Museum and Theater
Cheap art and political theater in Vermont
A couple of hours from Montreal, in northern Vermont, a small theater company orchestrates annual productions with puppets, people, and a clear political message.
Peter Schumann, founder of... »
Wondrous Performances | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Dylan and 2 others
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January 24, 2011
Lily Landes
added Tallest Filing Cabinet on Earth
38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the only giant filing cabinet in the United States, let alone on Earth
Built in 2002 by local artist Bren Alvarez, the filing cabinet in the first and second picture attached to this post is made up of 38 drawers, with each one representing the number of years of... »
Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by Lily Landes and Nicholas Jackson
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January 21, 2011
Lily Landes
added World's Largest Collection of The World's Smallest Versions of The World's Largest Things
A traveling roadside attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures
Erika Nelson, creator of the World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things Traveling Roadside Attraction and Museum, travels the US, looking for... »
Museums and Collections, Outsider Art, Unique Collections, Strange Statues, Miniatures, Small Worlds and Model Towns, Microminiature art, Inspired Inventions, Micro-Nations, Purveyors of Curiosities, Obscura Day Location | Edited by Lily Landes, Dylan and others
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January 21, 2011
Lily Landes
added Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden
Extraordinary topiary garden built by one man in a small South Carolina town
Visitors come from all over the planet come to the small town of Bishopville, South Carolina (population 3,600), to see Pearl Fryar’s Topiary Garden. Since 1981, when Pearl acquired his first... »
Natural Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Extraordinary Flora, Outsider Art, Intriguing Environs, Architectural Oddities, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Lily Landes, Nicholas Jackson and others
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January 20, 2011
Lily Landes
added The Devil's Sinkhole
A sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, home to the ancient dead
“The name, Devil’s Sinkhole, aptly connotes the dark depths and other-worldliness of a vast vertical chasm in the limestone bedrock on the far western reaches of the Edwards Plateau” states the... »
Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities, Curious Caves | Edited by Lily Landes, Dylan and others
