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kissam
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Places I have been to
I have been to Fushimi Inari Shrine, A-bomb Memorial, Hiroshima, Japan, Haesindang: Penis Park, Loretto Chapel, The Very Large Array, Black Hole of Los Alamos, Carhenge, Exploratorium, Mütter Museum, Musee Mecanique , Mapparium and Hood Milk Bottle
Recent Activity
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October 21, 2010
kissam
has been to 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
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October 21, 2010
kissam
has been to Mapparium
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935
In 1930, Boston architect Chester Lindsay Churchill was commissioned to design the new Christian Science Publishing Society headquarters to compete with the other grand newspaper headquarters of... »
Unusual Monuments, Small Worlds and Model Towns, Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science, Marvelous Maps and Measures, Architectural Oddities, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Josh, Dylan and 2 others
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October 21, 2010
kissam
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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October 21, 2010
kissam
has been to Mütter Museum
America's most famous museum of medical oddities
Located inside the headquarters of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Mutter has a wide range of wondrous and curious displays, including the skeleton of the tallest man in North... »
Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan, Josh and others
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October 21, 2010
kissam
has been to Exploratorium
Hands-On Science built on the rubble of the 1906 Earthquake, and hiding a few choice exhibits
In 1906, a massive earthquake hit San Francisco, and the “ham and egg” fires - named such because they were started by a family cooking breakfast with an earthquake damaged chimney - that followed... »
Strange Science | Edited by Tre and Nicholas Jackson
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October 21, 2010
kissam
has been to Carhenge
A curious replication of Stonehenge
Jim Reinders, an experimental artist with a history of using curious media, became so enthralled by the beauty of the famous Stonehenge in England that he had to recreate it. However, Reinders,... »
Outsider Art, Strange Statues, Outsider Architecture | Edited by CPilgrim and Dylan
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October 21, 2010
kissam
has been to Black Hole of Los Alamos
Seller of surplus nuclear research materials
The Black Hole sells surplus equipment acquired from the Los Alamos National Laboratories. They sell everything from 1950's era oscilloscopes to liquid nitrogen dewars, from dials, knobs &... »
Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by anotherfascist and Dylan
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October 21, 2010
kissam
has been to The Very Large Array
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets
Western New Mexico is high, dry land, with scrub brush in the brown dirt and hills in the distance. There are no trees and few towns... and then there is the Very Large Array, 27 huge, white... »
Instruments of Science | Edited by Henry
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October 21, 2010
kissam
has been to Loretto Chapel
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed
The story goes something like this: Our Lady of Light Chapel was built for the Sisters of Loretto in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1872, but the Bishop in charge died of pneumonia in 1888, before he... »
Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by amberjol and wythe
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October 21, 2010
kissam
has been to Haesindang: Penis Park
The Penis Park of South Korea - Erect on a Hill south of Samcheok.
Forty minutes south of Samcheok city is the Haeshindang Park – the Penis Park – where dozens of sculpted phallus stand erect in defiance of an old folk curse. The Phalli collection ranges from... »
Curious Places of Worship | Edited by timothylegion
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October 21, 2010
kissam
has been to A-bomb Memorial, Hiroshima, Japan
Peace Park and the A-bomb dome
On Monday, August 6th, 1945, at 8:15 am, a US bomber dropped the first nuclear weapon used in warfare over the city of Hiroshima.
Estimates of the number killed vary from 90,000 to 166,000... »
Museums and Collections, Strange Science, Unique Collections, Memento Mori, Ghost Towns, Disaster Areas | Edited by spinkk and Dylan
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October 21, 2010
kissam
has been to Fushimi Inari Shrine
The Ten Thousand "Torii" Shrine
Built in 711, the Fushimi Inari Shrine is the most famous of several thousands shrines dedicated to Inari, the Shinto God of rice.
Foxes are thought to be his messengers of Inari and many fox... »
Curious Places of Worship | Edited by bebeto and Dylan
