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• November 24, 2010 bradenh83 has been to City Museum
  

  City Museum

  Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers

  Housed in the former International Shoe building, the enormous 600,000 square-foot St. Louis City Museum is more adult sized playground and funhouse than standard museum. Visitors are encouraged... »

  Strange Science, Outsider Art, Unique Collections, Intriguing Environs, Purveyors of Curiosities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by kosack, Dylan and 3 others

• November 24, 2010 bradenh83 added Cahokia Mounds
  

  Cahokia Mounds

  Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned

  The largest pre-Columbian settlement in the New World north of Mexico, Cahokia once had about 120 mounds, built for various purposes by the inhabitants of the area. One of these mounds is Monks... »

  Rites and Rituals | Edited by bradenh83 and Nicholas Jackson

• November 18, 2010 bradenh83 added Castells of Catalonia
  

  Vilafranca del Penedes, Spain

  Castells of Catalonia

  Living towers made of people that are now recognized by UNESCO

  The region of Catalonia in Spain has a long history of doing things their own way. From the distinct languages to the autonomous legal standing within Spain, the area surrounding and including... »

  Cultures and Civilizations , Wondrous Performances | Edited by bradenh83 and Nicholas Jackson

• September 8, 2010 bradenh83 updated the Kuelap Fortress
  

  Kuelap Fortress

  An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World

  In Chachapoyas Peru the winding rivers and creek beds carve the terrain, headwaters of fuel for the mighty Amazon River. The few and far between roads and paths scar a landscape where ancient... »

  Incredible Ruins | Edited by davarian, Dylan and 2 others

• August 8, 2010 bradenh83 has been to Elephant Rocks State Park
  

  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

• August 8, 2010 bradenh83 updated the Babylon
  

  Babylon, Iraq

  Babylon

  Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war

  After colonial looting, the narcissistic dreams of a dictator, and the heavy mark of war, the legendary city of Babylon has almost vanished. The ancient city was the capital of the Mesopotamian... »

  Incredible Ruins | Edited by allison, wythe and others

• August 8, 2010 bradenh83 updated the National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History
  

  National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History

  An amazing collection of scale model ships

  Located in Sadorus, Illinois the National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History is a museum dedicated to ship models and the critical role that ships have played throughout the history and... »

  Unique Collections, Miniatures, Microminiature art | Edited by Musebrarian, Dylan and 2 others

• August 8, 2010 bradenh83 has been to Airtight Bridge
  

  Illinois, US

  Airtight Bridge

  The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

  By all obvious appearances it is a quiet, metal bridge over the modest Embarras River. Listed on the National Register of Historical places it is just the sort of peaceful, bucolic spot one might... »

  Memento Mori, Disaster Areas | Edited by zenomott, littlebrumble and others

• August 8, 2010 bradenh83 added Liang Bua cave
  

  Ruda, Indonesia

  Liang Bua cave

  Real-life "hobbit" cave in Flores, Indonesia

  A new "hobbit" species of human was found in the remote Indonesian cave of Liang Bua. This limestone cave has yielded some of the most important finds in modern anthropology. The remains of two... »

  Cultures and Civilizations , Lost Tribes, Architectural Oddities, Follies and Grottoes | Edited by bradenh83 and Nicholas Jackson

• August 8, 2010 bradenh83 has been to Overseas Railroad and Pigeon Key
  

  Overseas Railroad and Pigeon Key

  Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad

  Pigeon Key has been abandoned twice: first by a devastating hurricane on Labor Day 1935 that killed the vast majority of its road - and railroad-building inhabitants, and again in 1982 when a new... »

  Anomalous Islands, Ghost Towns, Follies and Grottoes, Incredible Ruins | Edited by littlebrumble

• August 8, 2010 bradenh83 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

• August 8, 2010 bradenh83 has been to Dominion of British West Florida
  

  Florida, US

  Dominion of British West Florida

  Are the Gulf States actually part of the British Commonwealth?

  Certainly, the British government used to control the thirteen original colonies, and though you may have thought that the Revolutionary War (and the War of 1812) solved that conundrum, according... »

  Intriguing Environs, Micro-Nations | Edited by M Rebekah Otto and Dylan

• August 8, 2010 bradenh83 added Gibraltar Airport
  

  Gibraltar Airport

  Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle

  If you're driving through the British overseas territory of Gibraltar and see a passenger jet crossing the highway, don't worry: It was designed this way. When planes are scheduled to land or... »

  Architectural Oddities | Edited by bradenh83 and Nicholas Jackson

• August 4, 2010 bradenh83 has been to Silky O'Sullivans
  

  Silky O'Sullivans

  Home to drunken tower-climbing goats...seriously

  Memphis is famous for its barbecue and for being the home of musicians as great and as different as Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley. Silky O'sullivan's, a barbecue-friendly Irish pub on Beale... »

  Bizarre Restaurants and Bars | Edited by S Lee, wythe and others

• July 29, 2010 bradenh83 has been to Torre Argentina - Roman Cat Sanctuary
  

  Torre Argentina - Roman Cat Sanctuary

  Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered

  In Rome the cats have an ancient temple-complex all to themselves. Known as Largo di Torre Argentina, this archaeological wonder was excavated as part of Mussolini's rebuilding efforts in 1929,... »

  Fascinating Fauna, Long Now Locations | Edited by Annetta, wythe and 2 others

• July 29, 2010 bradenh83 has been to Otzi the Iceman
  

  Italy

  Otzi the Iceman

  Europe’s oldest natural human mummy

  Three basic conditions can lead to natural mummification: extreme dryness or aridity (as in deserts), and extreme acidity (as in bogs) and extreme cold (as on mountains) which essentially freeze... »

  Unique Collections, Mummies, Long Now Locations | Edited by michelle and Dylan

• July 29, 2010 bradenh83 has been to Ponte dei Pugni (Bridge of Fists)
  

  Ponte dei Pugni (Bridge of Fists)

  100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps

  For generations of Venetians epic fist fights atop neighborhood bridges were a celebrated tradition. Beginning in about 1600, from September to Christmas each year rival clans would gather en... »

  Architectural Oddities | Edited by Annetta

• July 29, 2010 bradenh83 posted to the forums: Introduce yourself!
  My name is Braden Herbert and I'm a student from Illinois. I'm primarily interested in historical and anthropologic sites, although I'm pretty well open to anything interesting.
• July 29, 2010 bradenh83 added Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
  

  Dublin, Ireland

  Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

  Since 1030 AD, Christ Church has been an integral and intriguing part of Irish history

  Founded in 1030 AD by the Hiberno-Norse king Sitriuc Silkenbeard and Dúnán, first Bishop of Dublin, the originally viking church has been a part of Dublin and Irish history ever since. The wooden... »

  Curious Places of Worship | Edited by bradenh83

• July 27, 2010 bradenh83 updated the Drayton Hall
  

  Drayton Hall

  Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public

  Considered one of the most beautiful examples of Georgian Palladian architecture in North America, Drayton Hall was built for John Drayton over the four years between 1738 and 1742 using both... »

  Museums and Collections, Architectural Oddities | Edited by kozel, bradenh83 and others

• July 26, 2010 bradenh83 has been to Tsavo Man Eaters
  

  Tsavo Man Eaters

  These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers

  "On reaching the spot where the body had been devoured, a dreadful spectacle presented itself. The ground all round was covered with blood and morsels of flesh and bones, but the unfortunate... »

  Fascinating Fauna, Hunting and Taxidermy, Memento Mori, Dead Explorers | Edited by Annetta

• July 26, 2010 bradenh83 added Natural History building, National Museum of Ireland
  

  Dublin, Ireland

  Natural History building, National Museum of Ireland

  Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design

  Since 1857, visitors to the Natural History building of Dublin’s National Museum of Ireland can see not only animals and minerals of Ireland but, as some say, a museum of a museum. Containing... »

  Natural History | Edited by bradenh83 and Dylan

• July 23, 2010 bradenh83 added World's Largest Catsup Bottle
  

  World's Largest Catsup Bottle

  Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

  Situated just south of downtown Collinsville, IL, the world's largest Catsup bottle stands tall and proud. Completed in October 1949 as the water tower for a now-shuttered Brooks Foods plant at a... »

  Unusual Monuments | Edited by bradenh83 and Nicholas Jackson