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glamourschatz
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Places I have been to
I have been to Hamilton Pool, Devil's Icebox, Cathedral of Junk, Austin Moonlight Towers, Marfa Lights, Terlingua Ghost Town, Prada Marfa, Lajitas Ghost Town, Enchanted Rock, Cadillac Ranch and Crater Lake
Places I like
I like Dean's Blue Hole, Marble Caves of Chile Chico, Forbidden Gardens, Beer Can House, Floating Mesa, Munster Mansion, The Devil's Sinkhole, Terlingua Ghost Town, Lajitas Ghost Town, Ozymandias on the Plains, Stonehenge II, Cadillac Ranch, Old Tunnel Bat Colony, Yangshuo and Moon Hill, Crater Lake, Richat Structure, Hot Wells Hotel and Spa and Lena's Stone Pillars
Recent Activity
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Lena's Stone Pillars
A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river
Taking a trip to Lena's Pillars is no easy task.
Your trip will start in Moscow city where you will take a four day journey to the Siberian area of Yakutsk which is the equivalent flight distance... »
Natural Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by Gina
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Hot Wells Hotel and Spa
Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort
Once a hotel frequented by the rich and famous (including Rudolph Valentino, Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil B. DeMille, Tom Mix, Will Rogers, Charlie Chaplin, and Sarah Bernhardt), all that remains of... »
Commercial Curiosities, Purveyors of Curiosities, Odd Accommodations, Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins | Edited by A Facebook user and Nicholas Jackson
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Richat Structure
A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space
In the midst of the vast, vacant Sahara desert, just outside of Ouadane, Mauritania, lies a 30-mile wide geological oddity known the Richat Structure, or the "Eye of Africa." From space, this... »
Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by Dylan, Josh and others
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Crater Lake
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in myth
Crater lake has been known by a number of names. It was first known (to non-Native Americans anyway) as "Deep Blue Lake," as named in 1853 by its "discoverer," John Wesley Hillman, an American... »
Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by canuck, Dylan and 2 others
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Yangshuo and Moon Hill
Natural arch gives panoramic views of Yangshuo's karst hills
Unlike most mountains, the karst hills of Yangshuo poke up randomly as the Li River meanders around their bases. Covered in lush, green vegetation, the natural formations create a dramatic... »
Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by serflac and atimian
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Old Tunnel Bat Colony
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million mexican free-tail bats
Just ten miles southeast of Fredericksburg is a deserted railroad tunnel, home to up to three million bats. The tunnel, decommissioned in 1941, is home to mostly Mexican free-tailed bats, as well... »
Fascinating Fauna, Curious Caves | Edited by Clinton
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Cadillac Ranch
A sculpture made of ten cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.
Cadillac ranch, built in 1974, is the product of eccentric helium millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 (he doesn't like the Roman numeral III) and The Ant Farm, a San Francisco art collective. The ranch... »
Outsider Art, Unusual Monuments, Outsider Architecture | Edited by FungusFan, Dylan and others
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Stonehenge II
A recreated stonehenge stands in country field, with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries
In a field alongside this small country road stands a replica of Stonehenge.
This 60% scale replica is built by, and on the farmland of, the late Alfred Shepperd along with the help of his... »
Strange Statues | Edited by chipsndip
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
has been to Enchanted Rock
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by Native Americans
Enchanted Rock, a pluton, or igneous rock intrusion, is a massive dome comprised of pink granite and rises 425 feet above the ground around it. This ancient monolith has been a part of human... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by Clinton
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Ozymandias on the Plains
A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks
Just off the highway heading south on I-27 out of Amarillo two gigantic legs in athletic socks can be seen. You wouldn't know it but they are in fact the shattered likeness of an Egyptian... »
Outsider Art, Strange Statues | Edited by Clinton and Dylan
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Lajitas Ghost Town
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for Mayor
It would be fair to say that all the Mayor of Lajitas is lazy, and that all he does is stand around and drink beer. It would not be slander to say that he is a murderer, that he killed his father... »
Fascinating Fauna, Ghost Towns | Edited by Clinton
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
has been to Prada Marfa
A perfect recreation of a Prada Store in the middle of the West Texas desert
The middle of the West Texas desert isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a fully stocked Prada store, but stop a few miles outside of the tiny town of Valentine, Texas and you’ll find just... »
Outsider Architecture | Edited by gabeschwartz, Dylan and 2 others
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Terlingua Ghost Town
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks
Deep into Brewster County, almost to the Mexican border, lies Terlingua. Nestled between Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park persists a small community of desert denizens and an... »
Ghost Towns | Edited by Clinton and nicholasspencer
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked The Devil's Sinkhole
A sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, home to the ancient dead
“The name, Devil’s Sinkhole, aptly connotes the dark depths and other-worldliness of a vast vertical chasm in the limestone bedrock on the far western reaches of the Edwards Plateau” states the... »
Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities, Curious Caves | Edited by Lily Landes, Dylan and others
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Munster Mansion
A victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV
Many people loved the 60s TV show "The Munsters" the kind of lower class version of The Adam's Family, but few loved them as much as Charles and Sandra McKee.
Charles and Sandra McKee have spent... »
Eccentric Homes | Edited by Clinton
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
has been to Marfa Lights
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night
In beautiful, desolate West Texas, Marfa is an outpost of civilization, boasting an independent bookstore and modern art by resident artist Donald Judd. But Marfa is also the site of some... »
Optical Oddities, Will-O-Wisps and Spooklights | Edited by Henry and michelle
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Floating Mesa
The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above
Another creation of the eccentric millionaire known as Stanley Marsh 3, - who prefers the Arabic numeral to the Roman numeral which he find pretentious - Marsh is most know for his Caddilac Ranch... »
Outsider Art, Optical Oddities | Edited by Clinton
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Beer Can House
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Forbidden Gardens
Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire
UPDATE: The gardens closed permanently in February 2011, reportedly to make way for an expansion of the Grand Parkway. The terra cotta soldiers were sold to the public for $100 apiece at that... »
Strange Statues, Small Worlds and Model Towns | Edited by peggysuicide, bopo and 3 others
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
has been to Austin Moonlight Towers
Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer
"The baying of bloodhounds frantically seeking the killer's scent broke into the usual chorus of Yuletide merriment, chilling holiday spirits."
- Austin Statesman, Christmas 1885
In the wake... »
Electrical Oddities, Retro-Tech | Edited by Annetta, Dylan and others
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
has been to Cathedral of Junk
An unique structure in suburban Austin comprised entirely of other people's castaways
Tucked unsuspectingly in a suburban backyard in South Austin, is Vince Hannemann's towering Cathedrl of Junk.
Some 60 tons of discarded items, many of them bicycles, make up the skeleton and... »
Outsider Architecture | Edited by Clinton and dinosaursfeast
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
has been to Devil's Icebox
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Marble Caves of Chile Chico
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
has been to Hamilton Pool
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February 13, 2012
glamourschatz
liked Dean's Blue Hole
