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• May 17, 2011 Raychael added Crypt At Center Church-on-the-Green
  

  Crypt At Center Church-on-the-Green

  137 graves holding New England's earliest residents

  Known as one of New Haven's best kept secrets, the crypt at Center Church-on-the-Green is an ancient cemetery with gravestones from 1687 to 1812. The 137 gravestones held inside of this fine New... »

  Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Raychael, Nicholas Jackson and others

• May 17, 2011 Raychael added Ether Monument
  

  Ether Monument

  Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia

  Also known as The Good Samaritan, Ether Monument is a statue and fountain located inside of Boston's Public Garden. The statue was erected to commemorate the use of ether in anesthesia and the New... »

  Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues, Inspired Inventions | Edited by Raychael and Nicholas Jackson

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to Mission San Jose
  

  Mission San Jose

  Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio

  Mission San Jose was established in 1720 by Fray Antonio Margil de Jesus, at which time it sustained over 300 inhabitants. It quickly became the largest Texas Mission, and was often referred to as... »

  Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Madiha Bataineh and Nicholas Jackson

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to Congress Bridge Bats
  

  Congress Bridge Bats

  Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats

  The Congress Avenue Bridge, which spans Town Lake in downtown Austin, is home to the largest urban bat colony in North America. The colony is estimated at 1.5 million Mexican free-tail bats. Each... »

  Fascinating Fauna, Obscura Day Location | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to Touro Synagogue
  

  Touro Synagogue

  Oldest synagogue in the United States

  Typically when we think of early America, we think of Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England. Of course, the Puritans weren’t the only persecuted group in Europe. Back in the late 15th... »

  Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Nicholas Jackson and others

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History
  

  Massachusetts, US

  Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History

  Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a German father and son

  Natural history museums opening in the mid 1800s had a problem. While dioramas could depict the mammals of the world, the marine and botanical were difficult to preserve and the papier-maché or... »

  Natural Wonders, Extraordinary Flora, Wonder Cabinets, Natural History, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan, ack sed and others

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to The Mysterious Witch Bonney
  

  The Mysterious Witch Bonney

  The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city

  The Witch Bonney is a statue of a woman with her arms outstretched on a rectangular tomb. Her hands clutch a veil that falls down behind her body as though it were a sheet billowing in the wind.... »

  Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by darce and Dylan

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to The Bridge of Flowers
  

  The Bridge of Flowers

  In the village of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, a bridge is groomed to bloom beautifully with flowers all summer long.

  The Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, touted as “the only one of its kind in the world,” is a 400-foot long bridge covered in flowers expertly planted to ensure they bloom... »

  Follies and Grottoes | Edited by Jacque

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to Glacial Potholes
  

  Glacial Potholes

  Cool off in the 50 whirling pools of the Glacial Potholes in western Massachusetts

  The Glacial Potholes found on the Deerfield River, at the base of Salmon Falls in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts are a testament to the creative power of geological time, ice and rock. The... »

  Geological Oddities | Edited by Seth Teicher

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to Rainbow Swash
  

  Rainbow Swash

  World's Largest Piece of Copyrighted Artwork

  For the most part, commuting to work is no fun. But for a few thousand lucky Boston commuters, their drive is slightly brightened -- or for those interested in copyright reform, darkened -- with... »

  Outsider Art | Edited by Sofy

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to Higgins Armory Museum
  

  Higgins Armory Museum

  Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere

  The Higgins Armoury Museum is set within an Art Deco pseudo-castle. Decked out with tall flags, it can be seen from the nearby highway. Inside, the Higgins is larger than it appears from the... »

  Unique Collections | Edited by talkstosocks and wythe

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to Boston's Old Burying Grounds
  

  Boston's Old Burying Grounds

  Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death

  "Stay! thou this tomb that passeth by, And think how soon that thou may'st die..." The morbid imagery on the headstones in Boston's oldest cemeteries—such as skulls and crossed bones, winged... »

  Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by Annetta and wythe

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to Old Ship Church
  

  Old Ship Church

  Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use

  The Old Ship Church, located in Hingham, Massachusetts, is the oldest church building in the United States that has been in continuous ecclesiastical use. Built in 1681, the Church is often called... »

  Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by ronin, Nicholas Jackson and others

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to Hammond Castle Museum
  

  Massachusetts, US

  Hammond Castle Museum

  An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system

  John Hayes Hammond Jr. was resourceful man. As a little boy he visited Edison's laboratory with his wealthy father, and South African mining magnate, John Hays Hammond Sr. The young Hammond Jr.... »

  Inspired Inventions, Architectural Oddities, Eccentric Homes | Edited by Taoist, Annetta and 2 others

• May 8, 2011 Raychael has been to The Paul Revere House
  

  The Paul Revere House

  Oldest house in downtown Boston was once the home of Paul Revere

  Paul Revere was made famous by the eponymous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere…” You probably already know that Paul... »

  Architectural Oddities, Eccentric Homes | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Nicholas Jackson and others

• May 8, 2011 Raychael added Belcourt Castle
  

  Belcourt Castle

  60-room castle constructed by a horse racing heir

  The former summer cottage of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, Belcourt Castle still stands on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island after being constructed more than a century ago. Construction... »

  Architectural Oddities, Eccentric Homes | Edited by Raychael, Nicholas Jackson and others