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justinjohnsen
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Places I have been to
I have been to Eastern State Penitentiary, SS United States, Mütter Museum, Prague Astronomical Clock , Surgeons' Hall Museum, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Mary King's Close, Rotorua, Waitomo Glowworm Caves, Meguro Parasitological Museum, Sears Tower Glass Platform, La Isla de los Alcatraces: Alcatraz Island, Ruins of the Sutro Baths, Angels Flight, Watts Towers , The Silent Movie Theater, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Devils Golf Course, Evolution Nature Store, Mission San Juan Capistrano, Tehachapi Wind Farm, Point Vicente Lighthouse, Black Star Canyon, Sunken City , The Highline, Amargosa Opera House, Camelback Mountain, California City: The Unbuilt Suburb, Salton Sea, Mono Lake, Boston's Old Burying Grounds, Scotty's Castle, Cabazon Dinosaurs, Wayfarers Chapel, Galco's Soda Pop Stop, The Witch House of Salem, Museum of International Folk Art: Girard Wing, Giant Rock, Wrigley Memorial and Botanical Garden, Musee Mecanique , The Astoria Column , The Shanghai Tunnels, Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Rhyolite ghost town, Area 51, Stanley Park, Steam Clock Gastown Vancouver and Colossal Squid at the Te Papa Museum
Places I like
I like Wayfarers Chapel
Recent Activity
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Colossal Squid at the Te Papa Museum
The world's only complete colossal squid specimen on display
Te Papa is New Zealand's national museum, and attempts to give an overview of the nation's art, history, peoples, and wildlife. Among the wildlife that Te Papa currently displays is the world's... »
Watery Wonders, Fascinating Fauna, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan, re_nakaba and others
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Steam Clock Gastown Vancouver
A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown
Underneath Vancouver, Canada, there runs a series of steam pipes connected to a generating plant at Georgia and Beatty Streets. The system provides heat to most of the downtown core, and provides... »
Astounding Timepieces, Retro-Tech, Amazing Automata | Edited by canuck, Annetta and 3 others
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Stanley Park
"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright
On the banks of Copenhagen sits the famous "Little Mermaid" sculpture, a nude woman based on a local ballerina - at least in the face, the body was based on the sculptors wife. The sculpture was... »
Strange Statues | Edited by canuck
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Area 51
In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world
Hidden within a ring of mountains deep within the high desert is Area 51, a secretive military installation part of the Nellis Military Operations Area. Area 51 is well known for its role in... »
Martian Landscapes | Edited by mike_l and AllisonEng
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Rhyolite ghost town
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush era ghost town
Founded in 1904 and dead by 1916, Rhyolite was one of several short lived boom-towns from the late Gold Rush era. People were drawn to the desert on the edge of Death Valley by the promise of gold... »
Ghost Towns | Edited by Annetta and Dylan
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky
Maintained by the Bureau of Land Management as part of its National Landscape Conservation System, Red Rock National Conservation Area is a chunk of land just 15 miles west of Las Vegas that is... »
Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by canuck, Nicholas Jackson and others
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to The Shanghai Tunnels
The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past
From 1850 to 1941, Portland was considered one of the most dangerous ports in the world. It earned the moniker "Forbidden City of the West" due to the Shanghaiing trade and the white slavery that... »
Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Subterranean Sites | Edited by jamesb, mrobscurity and 2 others
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to The Astoria Column
A Roman style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside
Overlooking the mouth of the Columbia River on the 600 foot high Coxcomb Hill in Astoria, Oregon is the The Astoria Column. Built in 1926, the concrete and steel structure is part of the city park... »
Unusual Monuments | Edited by canuck and Dylan
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Musee Mecanique
A collection of 20th century automatons, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions
One of the last remaining links to San Francisco's oceanside Playland at the Beach amusement park, the Musee Mecanique is a unique hands-on arcade of vintage coin-operated contraptions of all... »
Unique Collections, Amazing Automata | Edited by Dylan, theamarant and 2 others
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Wrigley Memorial and Botanical Garden
Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island, CA
The Wrigley Memorial was built between 1933 and 1934 to commemorate chewing gum tycoon and Santa Catalina Island visionary William Wrigley Jr.. The memorial was built by the people of Santa... »
Unusual Monuments | Edited by Jeremias
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Giant Rock
Seven story giant boulder is the site of UFO conferences, Hopi spiritualists, a "Rejuvination Machine" and so much more...
It's exactly what it sounds like, and yet it's so much more. Geologically speaking, the Giant Rock, located in California's Mojave Desert, is roughly seven stories high and covers almost 6,000... »
Eccentric Homes | Edited by fta2day, Henry and 3 others
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Museum of International Folk Art: Girard Wing
Sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world
As a child growing up in Florence, Italy, Alexander Girard was fascinated by nativities, toys, and miniatures.
Appropriately, when Girard grew up, he became an interior designer and architect... »
Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by philcrater, Dylan and others
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to The Witch House of Salem
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692
The Salem witchcraft trials took place between February 1692 and May 1693. During the trials 19 people were convicted and hanged, and one man was crushed to death while being tortured.
Among... »
Unique Collections, Memento Mori | Edited by Dylan and dylanotto
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Galco's Soda Pop Stop
Shop selling 500 flavors of soda
In the age of globalization, when the long tentacles of Pepsi and Coca-Cola have touched even the most remote places in the world, Galco's Soda Pop Stop is an unique place. It is a throwback to... »
Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by stanestane and Annetta
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Wayfarers Chapel
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
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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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Scotty's Castle
Abandomed Jazz Age Dream Home and Con Man's Hide-Out in Death Valley Desert
Neither a castle nor Scotty’s, Death Valley Ranch, more commonly known as "Scotty’s Castle" was built by Albert Johnson, an insurance broker from Chicago. Johnson was lured to Death Valley by... »
Ghost Towns, Eccentric Homes | Edited by Tre, BrianDunning and others
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to 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
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Mono Lake
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Salton Sea
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea
This may sound obvious, but most rain eventually finds its way to the oceans, either via groundwater, rivers or lakes with permeable rock underneath. Some water, though, gets trapped in large... »
Watery Wonders | Edited by M Rebekah Otto
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to California City: The Unbuilt Suburb
The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere
Nat Mendelsohn had a dream. A city that was going to rival Los Angeles, in three hundred and twenty square kilometers of Mojave desert paradise, centered around a beautiful -- though not native to... »
Ghost Towns, Obscura Day Location | Edited by Annetta and Dylan
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Camelback Mountain
A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain
Rising out of the Arizona desert, the Camelback Mountain has long been an icon in the Phoenix valley. The mountain is named for its signature two humps and the head of a camel. It is the "head" of... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by rxallen and M Rebekah Otto
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to Amargosa Opera House
Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.
In the middle of Death Valley – one of the harshest and most extreme environments on earth – stands one of the most unusual hotels in America, the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel.
The Amargosa,... »
Outsider Art | Edited by wythe, BrianDunning and 2 others
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April 7, 2011
justinjohnsen
has been to The Highline
Elevated freight railway turned urban park
For the latter years of the 20th century, abandoned, decrepit and overgrown, this elevated railway on Manhattan's West Side was the domain of pigeons, squirrels and curious urban explorers. But... »
Outsider Architecture | Edited by jh2ohouse, Henry and others
