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Lumos
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Places I have been to
I have been to San Luis Obispo's Bubblegum Alley, San Diego Model Railroad Museum, The Pirate Shop at 826 Valencia, Zeum Carousel, Golden Gate Park Bison, Bourbon & Branch, Balmy Alley Murals, Exploratorium, Dutch Windmills, Defenestration, San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, The Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The Wave Organ, Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Space Needle, Neukom Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Fremont Troll, Seattle Underground , Gum Wall, Lenin Statue of Fremont, Mission San Juan Capistrano, Marin Headlands, La Isla de los Alcatraces: Alcatraz Island and Bodie State Historical Park
Places I like
I like La Isla de las Munecas, Defenestration, Neukom Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Underground , Dennis Severs' House, Underwater Museum at Cape Tarkhankut, Gjoa Monument, Eastern State Penitentiary, Old Zoo Picnic Area, Overseas Railroad and Pigeon Key and Maunsell Army Sea Forts
Recent Activity
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September 27, 2011
Lumos
liked Maunsell Army Sea Forts
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack
Rising from the water like rusty invaders out of H.G. Wells, the Maunsell Army Forts in the Thames Estuary are decaying reminders of the darkest days of World War II. Part of the Thames Estuary... »
Incredible Ruins | Edited by Annetta and AllisonEng
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September 27, 2011
Lumos
liked Overseas Railroad and Pigeon Key
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September 27, 2011
Lumos
liked Old Zoo Picnic Area
Abandoned LA zoo is a perfect place to experience what it is like to be on the other side of the bars
In a quiet area of Griffith Park in Los Angeles, you can picnic in a bear grotto and climb inside abandoned monkey cages. If you have ever wondered what you appear like to the animals in the zoo,... »
Ghost Towns, Incredible Ruins, Obscura Day Location | Edited by Lisa E, Annetta and 2 others
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September 27, 2011
Lumos
has been to Bodie State Historical Park
Gold rush era ghost town in the Sierra Nevada hills
It was once the most lawless town in California, a place where the fire bell ringing out the ages of those being laid to rest seemed to never stop ringing. Today, what's left of Bodie is the... »
Ghost Towns | Edited by ogurantz, Dylan and 5 others
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September 27, 2011
Lumos
liked Eastern State Penitentiary
World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane
Thrust into the middle of urban Philadephia is what looks like a great castle, a massive and haunting building. However, these walls weren't built to keep Crusaders and robbers out, but to keep... »
Ghost Towns, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Dylan, wythe and 3 others
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September 27, 2011
Lumos
liked Gjoa Monument
Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage
In the fall of 1906, as San Francisco recovered from its April earthquake, a small fishing ship and seven haggard but triumphant Norwegians arrived through the Golden Gate having completed one of... »
Dead Explorers | Edited by Annetta and Nicholas Jackson
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September 27, 2011
Lumos
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 27, 2011
Lumos
has been to Marin Headlands
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September 27, 2011
Lumos
has been to Mission San Juan Capistrano
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July 11, 2011
Lumos
liked Underwater Museum at Cape Tarkhankut
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November 25, 2010
Lumos
liked Dennis Severs' House
A historic house left in "dramatic still life."
A house caught between history and obsession, Dennis Severs' house is a four-floor "dramatic still life," a detailed recreation of a family home spanning centuries of London history. However, what... »
Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan
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November 25, 2010
Lumos
has been to Lenin Statue of Fremont
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle
Striding forward with an scowl on his face and surrounded by flames and the symbols of war this 16 foot tall bronze sculpture of Lenin looks particularly fierce, so it is all the more out of place... »
Strange Statues, Relics and Reliquaries | Edited by Dylan
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November 25, 2010
Lumos
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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November 25, 2010
Lumos
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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November 25, 2010
Lumos
has been to Fremont Troll
A giant Troll lurks under a Seattle bridge overpass
An 18-ft. tall troll made of cement clutchs an old VW car underneath this Seattle overpass. The car is an actual Volkswagen encased in concrete; it bears a California license plate.
The Troll... »
Follies and Grottoes | Edited by Dylan
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November 25, 2010
Lumos
has been to Neukom Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park
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November 25, 2010
Lumos
has been to Space Needle
Iconic symbol of the Pacific Northwest
Built in 1962 for the World Expo, the Space Needle is Seattle is recognized around the world because of its distinctive structure, which allows for it to rise more than 600 feet above the Seattle... »
Architectural Oddities | Edited by canuck, Nicholas Jackson and others
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November 25, 2010
Lumos
has been to Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction
In Seattle, where art seems to spring from the ground like weeds from sidewalk cracks, it takes a truly audacious design to generate as much attention as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's... »
Architectural Oddities, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by canuck, Dylan and 2 others
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November 25, 2010
Lumos
has been to The Wave Organ
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean
Located on a jetty in the San Francisco Bay, the Wave Organ was built in 1986. In collaboration with the Exploratorium, artist Peter Richards built an acoustic sculpture that amplifies the... »
Outsider Art, Musical Wonders | Edited by Dylan and Henry
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November 25, 2010
Lumos
has been to The Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead
One generally associates parrots with the jungles of a tropical location, yet living in the middle of urban San Francisco is a flock of wild parrots.
The parrot flock began in 1990 as one pair of... »
Fascinating Fauna, Eccentric Homes | Edited by Dylan
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November 25, 2010
Lumos
has been to San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere
The recently restored Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park hosts over 2000 plant varieties, including a collection of tropical carnivorous pitcher plants. The East Wing is dominated by the... »
Extraordinary Flora | Edited by Annetta
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November 25, 2010
Lumos
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 25, 2010
Lumos
has been to Dutch Windmills
The largest windmill in the world and the key to turning dunes into Golden Gate Park
Two enormous windmills overlook Ocean Beach at the far West end of Golden Gate park. Once mighty water-pumping machines designed to provide water for the fledgling Golden Gate Park at the... »
Retro-Tech, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Annetta
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November 25, 2010
Lumos
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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November 25, 2010
Lumos
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
