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NanC313
Novelist, bon vivant & human oddity
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Places I have been to
I have been to Toad Suck, New Orlean's Historic Voodoo Museum, Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, Marie Laveau's Tomb, Statue of Vulcan, Petrified Forest National Park, The Thing, Cabazon Dinosaurs, Madonna Inn, Gibsonton, Florida, Oakland Cemetery, Junkman's Daughter, Rock City, Atlanta White House, The Paris Market, Dinosaur World, Wigwam Village #2, Mammoth Cave, Meramec Caverns, Devil's Icebox, Elephant Rocks State Park, Lost Sea, Tuckaleechee Caverns, Mud Island River Park, Concrete Parthenon, The Natural Bridge, The Great Stalacpipe Organ and Mount Trashmore
Places I like
I like The 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa, Quigley's Castle and the New Orleans Treehouse
Recent Activity
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Mount Trashmore
Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets
Virginia Beach's Mount Trashmore is at times a skate park, kid-friendly respite, and fishing hole, but it's always a dump.
Created by compacting layers of refuse with clean soil. Covering roughly... »
Watery Wonders, Unusual Monuments, Intriguing Environs | Edited by Dylan
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to The Great Stalacpipe Organ
An organ located deep within a cave and whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself
Deep in the Luray Caverns of Virginia sits the largest musical instrument in the world. The Great Stalacpipe Organ appears at first to be a normal looking organ, but instead of pipes, the organ is... »
Curious Caves, Musical Wonders, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Dylan and Henry
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to The Natural Bridge
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Concrete Parthenon
Originally constructed for Tennessee's 1897 Centennial Exposition, a full-sized replica of Athens' famous Parthenon resides today in Nashville's Centennial Park. Its remarkable quality is that... »
Museums and Collections, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Dylan
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Mud Island River Park
Walk the whole Mississippi River!
The Mississippi is the second longest river in the world, but in Memphis, Tennessee you can see it all in one short afternoon.
The River Walk is a 5-block long replica of the lower Mississippi... »
Miniatures, Small Worlds and Model Towns | Edited by
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Tuckaleechee Caverns
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Lost Sea
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system
This beautiful cavern includes a 3/4-mile talk through an intricate cave system that leads a huge number of visitor and tourists to an underground lake otherwise known as the Lost Sea. Once... »
Natural Wonders, Watery Wonders, Curious Caves | Edited by Myrandis and Nicholas Jackson
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Elephant Rocks State Park
Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants
About 1.5 billion years ago, hot magma cooled forming coarsely crystalline red granite, which later weathered into huge, rounded boulders. Standing atop a granite outcrop, one of the largest... »
Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by Dylan
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Devil's Icebox
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Meramec Caverns
The Meramac Caverns have existed for the past 400 million years, slowly forming through deposits of limestone.Centuries ago, Native Americans used the cavern system for shelter. The first cave... »
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Mammoth Cave
World's longest known cave
Known as the world's longest cave system, Mammoth Cave earned its name due to its vast size. To date, over 392 miles of the cave's interconnected passages have been explored, beginning with Native... »
Curious Caves | Edited by urk1971, amberjol and others
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Wigwam Village #2
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Dinosaur World
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to The Paris Market
This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars
Started by a speech pathologist and emergency physician, the Paris Market reflects the pair's clear love of travel. On finding the famous Parisian flea market known as "Marche aux Puces," the... »
Commercial Curiosities, Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by Dylan and michelle
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Atlanta White House
3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia
After fleeing from Iran to the United States in 1979, Fred Milani built a prosperous real estate business in Atlanta, Georgia, a city that epitomized the building boom of the 1990s and early... »
Small Worlds and Model Towns, Eccentric Homes | Edited by M Rebekah Otto and wythe
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Rock City
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Junkman's Daughter
A purveyor of unusual items located in the center of Atlanta, Georgia
The Junkman’s Daughter is a purveyor of unusual items located in the Little 5 Points area of Atlanta, GA.
The store was initially opened in 1982 by Pam Majors, a true daughter of a junkman,... »
Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by ronin and Dylan
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Oakland Cemetery
Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds
The oldest cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as one of the largest continuous patches of green space anywhere in the city, Oakland Cemetery was founded as "Atlanta Cemetery" in 1850 on only... »
Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by THORGODOFTHUNDER and Nicholas Jackson
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Gibsonton, Florida
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Madonna Inn
A hotel/restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.
Built in 1958 by Alex and Phyllis Madonna, the Madonna Inn is a Swiss Alp-inspired hotel/restaurant in seeming celebration of all that is garish and tacky in human taste. Writer Umberto Eco... »
Odd Accommodations, Bizarre Restaurants and Bars | Edited by tralfamadore
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Cabazon Dinosaurs
"World's biggest dinosaur" featured in Pee Wee's Big Adventure, now houses a creationist museum in its abdomen
For the past 35 years, travelers driving west on Interstate 10 in Southern California have been greeted by Dinny the Dinosaur, a 150-foot-long recreation of an apatosaurus, whose owners have given... »
Natural History, Strange Statues, Commercial Curiosities | Edited by anhie
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to The Thing
You may not want to drive hundreds of miles out of your way to see The Thing?, but if you ever find yourself traveling along I-10 in southeastern Arizona, you would be remiss not to stop and take... »
Natural Wonders, Unique Collections | Edited by Sam E, michelle and 2 others
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Petrified Forest National Park
Discover fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona
Straddling the border between Navajo County and Apache County in the far northeastern corner of Arizona, the Petrified Forest National Park is about 146 square miles in size. The northern part of... »
Natural Wonders | Edited by AllisonEng and Nicholas Jackson
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
has been to Statue of Vulcan
A 58-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama
Reminiscent of the Colossus of Rhodes (but at only half its supposed height), this 56-foot statue of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, towers over Birmingham, Alabama.
It is the world's largest... »
Strange Statues | Edited by Dylan and Henry
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December 31, 2011
NanC313
commented on Marie Laveau's Tomb
Don't go at night/dusk, don't go by yourself, and don't wear flashy stuff while you're there unless you want to get mugged.
Don't go at night/dusk, don't go by yourself, and don't wear flashy stuff while you're there unless you want to get mugged.