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• April 24, 2012 littlebrumble has been to Jökulsárlón
  

  Hofn, Iceland

  Jökulsárlón

  Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs

  Despite the splendor of Jökulsárlón’s light blue and milky-white icebergs, the beauty of the glacial pool in southeastern Iceland is bittersweet. As the melting of nearby glaciers has accelerated,... »

  Natural Wonders, Watery Wonders | Edited by Dampo, atimian and others

• April 24, 2012 littlebrumble has been to Oude Kerk
  

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

  Oude Kerk

  Amsterdam's oldest church, and the center of Dutch prostitution

  Amsterdam is one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in Europe. It is also a self-proclaimed experiment in freedom, which has forced many of the city's beautiful buildings and districts into... »

  Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by serflac and atimian

• April 24, 2012 littlebrumble has been to Icelandic Phallological Museum
  

  Husavik, Iceland

  Icelandic Phallological Museum

  An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises

  The Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavik bills itself as “probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found... »

  Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by Josh, Annetta and others

• December 28, 2011 littlebrumble has been to Fuente de Tláloc
  

  Fuente de Tláloc

  Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project

  Just five years before his death, Diego Rivera finished one of his most intriguing works, la Fuente de Tláloc. Although strikingly different in medium from most of his work, the massive tiled... »

  Unusual Monuments, Peculiar Fountains, Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by tonka922, atimian and others

• December 28, 2011 littlebrumble has been to La Casa Azul
  

  La Casa Azul

  Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works

  From the outside, La Casa Azul is a simple structure that would likely be overlooked if not for its striking shade of blue. But beyond the sky-colored concrete lies a world that once brought two... »

  Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by serflac, atimian and others

• November 17, 2011 littlebrumble updated the Vasa Museum
  

  Stockholm, Sweden

  Vasa Museum

  Remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic

  Seventeenth century Sweden was an up-and-coming state with great ambitions. Colonial expansion was on the mind of every royal and for Sweden, the Navy was to be the backbone of any successful... »

  Incredible Ruins | Edited by stanestane, littlebrumble and 2 others

• September 30, 2011 littlebrumble updated the The Very Old Oak Tree
  

  Riga, Latvia

  The Very Old Oak Tree

  A preserved oak tree about 3500 years old found in Riga, Latvia

  Under the Riga Town Hall building (destroyed during WWII, and rebuilt in 2003) there is a narrow cobble-stoned street where one can find small souvenir and flower shops and an old oak tree laying... »

  Natural Wonders, Extraordinary Flora, Natural History, Long Now Locations | Edited by playrigadotcom, Dylan and others

• September 2, 2011 littlebrumble has been to Crater Lake
  

  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

• September 2, 2011 littlebrumble has been to Evergreen Aviation Museum
  

  Evergreen Aviation Museum

  Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose

  The Spruce Goose, or H-4 Hercules—also called the flying lumberyard—only took flight once. It lifted some 70 feet off the water and flew for around a mile. That was to be the wooden behemoth's... »

  Strange Science, Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech | Edited by chuck, Dylan and 2 others

• September 2, 2011 littlebrumble has been to Multnomah Falls
  

  Multnomah Falls

  Roaring, awe-inspiring cascade of icy water

  Only a 30-minute drive from Portland, Oregon, Multnomah Falls allows visitors to experience the power of nature up close. The base of this 611-foot-tall cascade of icy water is only a five-minute... »

  Natural Wonders, Watery Wonders | Edited by canuck, Nicholas Jackson and others

• September 2, 2011 littlebrumble has been to Cape Foulweather
  

  Cape Foulweather

  First landing spot for James Cook on his voyage of discovery to the Sandwich Islands

  The first landing spot for Captain James Cook on his voyage of discovery to the Sandwich Islands, Cape Foulweather sits about 500 feet above the Oregon coast on a basalt cliff overlooking... »

  | Edited by Valleycat, Dylan and others

• September 2, 2011 littlebrumble has been to The Wreck of the Peter Iredale
  

  The Wreck of the Peter Iredale

  100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide

  The Peter Iredale was a four-masted steel barque sailing vessel that ran ashore October 25, 1906, on the Oregon coast en route to the Columbia River. It was abandoned on Clatsop Spit near Fort... »

  Unusual Monuments | Edited by canuck, Dylan and others

• September 2, 2011 littlebrumble has been to Flutter
  

  Flutter

  Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter

  Nobody, it seems, can resist the charms of this Portland boutique, stuffed with curiosities and found objects. If you're shopping for gifts, you won't walk out of here empty-handed. It's bursting... »

  Unique Collections, Commercial Curiosities, Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by Nicholas Jackson

• September 2, 2011 littlebrumble updated the Highgate Cemetery
  

  London, United Kingdom

  Highgate Cemetery

  London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters

  Opened in 1839, Highgate is one of London's most infamous cemeteries. Among the impressive Victorian and Egyptian influenced tombs, are the gravestones of Karl Marx (recognizable by the glowering... »

  Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by Annetta, littlebrumble and others

• July 7, 2011 littlebrumble updated the Togo the Wonder Dog
  

  Togo the Wonder Dog

  Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin

  Everybody knows Balto the Wonder Dog. One of Johnny Carson's go-to punchlines, Balto - or at least a bronze statue version of Balto - can be found in New York's Central Park. Real Balto, stuffed... »

  Natural Wonders, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by Nicholas Jackson and littlebrumble

• July 1, 2011 littlebrumble updated the Kymerica
  

  Kymerica

  The historical markers of an alternative universe

  Kymaerica, the land referred to as America in our world, is just a part of Kcymaerxthaere, a parallel universe, described by its website as "a global work of three dimensional storytelling."... »

  Strange Statues, Relics and Reliquaries, Lost Tribes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Dylan and others

• July 1, 2011 littlebrumble updated the Edisons Last Breath at the Henry Ford Museum
  

  Michigan, US

  Edisons Last Breath at the Henry Ford Museum

  Housed in the Henry Ford museum is a test tube said to hold "Edison's Last Breath"

  Even great industrialists have heroes. Such was the case of Henry Ford and his idol Thomas Edison. Ford grew up on a rural un-electrified farm, and as a young man he followed Edison's meteoric... »

  Strange Science, Unique Collections, Memento Mori, Relics and Reliquaries, Inspired Inventions, Retro-Tech | Edited by Dylan and littlebrumble

• July 1, 2011 littlebrumble updated the The Holy Right
  

  Budapest, Hungary

  The Holy Right

  Mummified holy right fist of a 1,000-year-old Saint-king

  It is known as “The Holy Right” and every year on August 20th, Hungary takes it out for a walk. The occasion is Saint Stephen’s Day, a day dedicated to celebrating the founder of the Hungarian... »

  Relics and Reliquaries, Mummies | Edited by Dylan, re_nakaba and 2 others

• July 1, 2011 littlebrumble updated the The Museum of Everything
  

  London, United Kingdom

  The Museum of Everything

  London's Biggest Outsider Art Museum

  This new art venue, opened in October 2009, contains the biggest collection of outsider art in London, and maybe the world. "Outsider Art" is a term used to describe art made outside of the... »

  Museums and Collections, Natural History, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by Dirtycash, littlebrumble and 2 others

• June 24, 2011 littlebrumble updated the Ghost City
  

  Huinan, China

  Ghost City

  When China's massive Three Gorges Dam flooded the lower Yangze, this "City of Ghosts" became an actual ghost town.

  Known to most Chinese as Ghost City, Fengdu is an ancient necropolis perched on the banks of the Yangze River. For centuries the city's ghostly reputation drew the pious and curious to its... »

  Ghost Towns, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Beth Gherlein, AllisonEng and others

• June 24, 2011 littlebrumble updated the Sutyagin House
  

  Arkhangel'sk, Russia

  Sutyagin House

  Claimed to be the world's tallest single-family wooden structure house... or better put, one of the most amazing looking structures ever built

  Why build it? According to him 'Because he can'... or at least could. The Sutyagin house was a wooden house in Arkhangelsk, Russia. The 13-story, 144-ft tall residence of a local entrepreneur... »

  Outsider Architecture | Edited by jamesb, Dylan and 2 others

• June 16, 2011 littlebrumble updated the Meteora
  

  Meteora

  Monasteries on rock pilars, once accessable only by frayed ropes

  The Orthodox church has always had a knack for picking spectacular locations for its sacred buildings, and Meteora is no exception. Even if it weren't the location of the second most important... »

  Long Now Locations, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by stanestane, Annetta and 2 others

• June 14, 2011 littlebrumble updated the Brimham Rocks
  

  Harrogate, United Kingdom

  Brimham Rocks

  Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape

  Some of the Brimham Rock formations look almost impossible, and were once thought to have been carved by the druids. Yet these astonishing rocks were formed naturally. Found on Brimham Moor in... »

  Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by pyrawyrm, M Rebekah Otto and others

• June 14, 2011 littlebrumble liked Logan Rock of Treen
  

  Logan Rock, United Kingdom

  Logan Rock of Treen

  A legendary rocking stone, returned to its clifftop perch

  The imposing cliffs known as Castle Treryn (or Treen) in Cornwall are topped by an ancient 80 ton granite boulder famous for rocking at the gentlest touch. In 1754 a local historian boasted that... »

  Geological Oddities | Edited by Annetta and Dylan

• June 10, 2011 littlebrumble 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