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michelle
The goal of Michelle Enemark is to unearth the extraordinary past through travel and a wonder of the natural world.
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October 7, 2010
michelle
updated the The Dequindre Cut Greenway
Railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork
An urban recreational path, the Dequindre Cut Greenway officially opened to the public in May of 2009. The 1.35-mile greenway provides a pedestrian link between Detroit's Eastern Market,... »
Incredible Ruins | Edited by Nicholas Jackson, michelle and others
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July 18, 2010
michelle
updated the Deyrolle Taxidermy
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios
Deyrolle was founded by well-known entomologist Emile Deyrolle in 1831, and has been at its current premises since 1881. Exotic taxidermy, entomology, and natural history collections displayed in... »
Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by Josh, Dylan and 3 others
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May 13, 2010
michelle
updated the The Vacuum Cleaner Museum
These machines have been collecting dust for decades
Tucked away in a not-so-dusty corner of Stark's Vacuum Cleaner Sales & Service in downtown Portland is a collection that would make any prop master, house wife, or history buff slobber with... »
Unique Collections, Inspired Inventions, Electrical Oddities | Edited by jamesb, wythe and others
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February 28, 2010
michelle
added Giant's Causeway
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones
Famed for its thousands of interlocking hexagonal columns that rise vertically like steps, the Giant's Causeway is a geological oddity that looks distinctly man-made.
In fact, the unusual... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by Josh, michelle and 2 others
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February 28, 2010
michelle
added The Hash, Marijuana and Hemp Museum
The history and future of cannabis
In 1985 the same year that Jack Herer published "The Emperor Wears No Clothes," his famous book explaining the benefits of cannabis and hemp, the Hash, Marijuana and Hemp Museum opened its doors... »
Pharmacy Museums, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan and michelle
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February 25, 2010
michelle
added Minyatür’s Nautical Instruments
Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar
The Grand Bazaar, or Covered Bazaar (Kapaliçarsi) in Istanbul is a magical city within a city. With over 60 streets and more then 4400 shops, the world’s first mall is a buzzing hive of activity,... »
Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by michelle
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February 23, 2010
michelle
added Dead Horse Bay
First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach of glass is scavenger heaven
Like most of New York City, Dead Horse Bay has a long history of changes. Over the years, much of old New York has been torn down, replaced, torn down again, and replaced again by new buildings... »
Disaster Areas | Edited by michelle and Annetta
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February 11, 2010
michelle
added Historical Dental Museum
Museum boasting a bucket of teeth and the tale of a twentieth-century dental circus
Show girls, singing and dancing. A band with blasting bugles. A dental chair poised, at the ready, in the bed of a horse-drawn wagon. And there at the center of it all is Painless Parker, dressed... »
Medical Museums, Instruments of Science | Edited by michelle and wythe
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February 10, 2010
michelle
added Vanderbilt Museum
An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection
The Vanderbilt Museum on Long Island, New York is housed in the mansion once owned by William K. Venderbilt II (the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the New York Central Railroad... »
Museums and Collections, Mummies | Edited by michelle and Annetta
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February 9, 2010
michelle
added Zymoglyphic Museum
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February 3, 2010
michelle
added John Lennon Statue
His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now imortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer"
It's no surprise that the music of John Lennon and the Beatles was banned from Communist Cuba in the 1960s and 70s. Cuban authorities considered the music "ideological diversionism," and decadent... »
Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by michelle
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February 3, 2010
michelle
added The Lost River Fleet
The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life
The River Fleet was a part of London life before London was even London. This tributary of the Thames, called the Holburna ("hollow stream") by the Anglo-Saxons, is the largest of London's... »
Watery Wonders, Subterranean Sites | Edited by michelle, wythe and others
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January 28, 2010
michelle
added Eisriesenwelt (The World of Ice Giants)
A mammoth ice cavern discovered in 1879
The 65-foot-wide entrance to this massive ice cave gives the feeling of an entrance to another world, and essentially, it is.
Beneath the Tennengebirge mountains lies the Eisriesenwelt or... »
Curious Caves | Edited by Dylan, michelle and others
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January 25, 2010
michelle
added Statue of St. Wilgefortis
A crucified and bearded female saint
There are a number of treasuries and chapels within the famous pilgrimmage site of Loreto Church in Prague, but there is one chapel in particular, The Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows, that houses a... »
Strange Statues | Edited by michelle
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January 22, 2010
michelle
added The Headington Shark
A 26 foot shark sculpture for nuclear disarmament, clever antennae disguise, and municiple battle royale
About four months after the incident at Chernobyl, on August 9, 1986, Oxford-resident Bill Heine had a twenty-six foot shark sculpture erected on his roof. Using cranes, Heine and sculptor John... »
Outsider Architecture | Edited by michelle and Dylan
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January 21, 2010
michelle
added Siriraj Medical Museum
A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens
Housed in the oldest hospital - it's where the King of Thailand goes when he is ill - and medical school in Thailand, est. 1886, the Siriraj Medical Museum abounds with medical curiosities. The... »
Medical Museums | Edited by michelle and Annetta
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January 19, 2010
michelle
added Eartha
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January 6, 2010
michelle
added The Chair That Grew
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December 27, 2009
michelle
added Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
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December 4, 2009
michelle
added Holy Land, U.S.A.
An abandoned, religious-themed amusement park
In the early 1950s John Baptist Greco, a staunch Roman Catholic, had a vision of a roadside theme park devoted to God. By the end of the decade, he had created exactly that: a theme park built to... »
Ghost Towns, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Dylan, michelle and others
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December 3, 2009
michelle
added Pneumatic System of the New York Public Library
One of the few places in Manhattan which still employs a pneumatic system
When a young man in Manhattan writes a letter to his girl in Brooklyn, the love letter gets blown to her through a pneumatic tube—pfft—just like that. — E.B. White, “Here Is New York”
The... »
Inspired Inventions, Retro-Tech, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by michelle
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November 19, 2009
michelle
added Jindo-Modo Landbridge
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November 13, 2009
michelle
added Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospice of the Innocent)
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped
Florence in the 1400s had a problem. Babies. Babies everywhere. Babies in the fields, babies in the alleyways, babies left on the pews of the Church. Florence was crawling with abandoned babies.... »
Medical Museums, Unusual Monuments, Inspired Inventions | Edited by michelle and Annetta
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November 6, 2009
michelle
added Curtain of Fire
An erupting wall of magma
When humans breathe, they release carbon dioxide gas that has built up inside them. The Kilauea volcano on the Island of Hawai'i is no different. It is the world's most active volcano. At its... »
Fiery Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by Dylan and michelle
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November 5, 2009
michelle
added 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