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• January 5, 2012 Shadesong has been to Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History
  

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  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

• January 5, 2012 Shadesong has been to Hood Milk Bottle
  

  Hood Milk Bottle

  Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance

  Standing 40 feet tall, this giant milk bottle sits next to the Boston Children’s Museum, just across the Fort Point Channel. In 1930, Arthur Gagner built the milk bottle next to his store to sell... »

  Bizarre Restaurants and Bars | Edited by Sofy

• January 5, 2012 Shadesong 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

• January 5, 2012 Shadesong has been to Mike the Tiger
  

  Mike the Tiger

  LSU mascot lives on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country

  One of the largest and most advanced tiger enclosures is not in any zoo, but on a university campus. Mike the Tiger, the Louisiana State University mascot, lives across the street from the... »

  Fascinating Fauna | Edited by allison, Nicholas Jackson and others

• January 5, 2012 Shadesong has been to New Orlean's Historic Voodoo Museum
  

  New Orlean's Historic Voodoo Museum

  A Snapshot into the Real New Orleans

  New Orleans, as a city, has a long and illustrious reputation as a place of mystery, the unusual, and the odd. In such a city of wide and eclectic tastes the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum... »

  Museums and Collections | Edited by Nathan_Risinger and Dylan

• January 5, 2012 Shadesong has been to Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum
  

  Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum

  Home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer, today home to many six-toed cats

  Ernest Hemingway was a man who lived in many wonderful places, and traveled to many more. But the house on Whitehead Street in Key West was of particular importance, both in Hemingway's personal... »

  Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by Henry

• January 5, 2012 Shadesong has been to The Fountain of Youth
  

  The Fountain of Youth

  A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth

  In Florida, citrus orchards and an old well have been reborn as a Spanish explorer's quixotic dream come true. Created in 1904 by local entrepreneur "Diamond Lil" (aka Luella Day McConnell) the... »

  Peculiar Fountains | Edited by A Facebook user and Annetta

• January 5, 2012 Shadesong has been to MIT Museum: Arthur Ganson
  

  MIT Museum: Arthur Ganson

  Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum

  Housed in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a permanent collection of wondrous and playful machines from MIT's former artist in residence, Arthur... »

  Museums and Collections, Outsider Art, Unique Collections | Edited by Josh, pdarnows and 4 others

• January 5, 2012 Shadesong has been to 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

• January 5, 2012 Shadesong has been to Junkman's Daughter
  

  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

• January 5, 2012 Shadesong has been to The Conch Republic
  

  The Conch Republic

  "We Seceded Where Others Failed"

  We hear the term "third world" tossed around with a much greater frequency than the other "worlds." Based on an outmoded Cold War taxonomy in which the first world consists of capitalist NATO... »

  Micro-Nations | Edited by M Rebekah Otto and Dylan

• January 5, 2012 Shadesong has been to Monkey Jungle
  

  Monkey Jungle

  Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged

  A 30-acre wildlife park established back in 1933 for the exhibition and study of various endangered monkeys living in a semi-natural habitat, Florida's Monkey Jungle draws in many visitors with... »

  Natural Wonders, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by A Facebook user and Nicholas Jackson

• January 5, 2012 Shadesong has been to World Erotic Art Museum
  

  World Erotic Art Museum

  12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times

  Among the many museums gracing Miami, Florida, is one devoted to a very unique subject. The World Erotic Art Museum (WEAM) opened on South Beach in October 2006 and is housed in a building... »

  Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by mechamuffin, ronin and others