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Slab City California
Slab City CaliforniaDuring winter months, abandoned navy base becomes off-grid home and alternative living community for thousands of retireesSlab City, or The Slabs, is a free campsite and alternative...
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Salton Sea
Salton SeaThe ghostly remains of an accidental seaThis may sound obvious, but most rain eventually finds its way to the oceans, either via groundwater, rivers or lakes with permeable rock underneath....
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Bombay Beach
Bombay BeachVersion of the French Riviera destroyed by the seaIn 2010, the United States Census Bureau measured the population of Bombay Beach, a census-designated place in Imperial County, California,...
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Salton Sea History Museum
Salton Sea History MuseumA museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.The Salton Sea was created between 1905 and 1907, when an engineering flub formed a 15 mile-wide, 35 mile-long “sea.”...
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Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Desert Art Museum
Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Desert Art Museum10 acres of "Environmental Sculptures" in the Mojave desertSet in Joshua Tree, California, Noah Purifoy's "Outdoor Desert Art Museum" is 7.5 acres of open land...
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Trona Pinnacles
Trona PinnaclesOne of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit moviesKnown as one of the most unusual geologic wonders in the California Desert, the Trona Pinnacles are more...
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The Sailing Stones of Racetrack Playa
The Sailing Stones of Racetrack PlayaThe stones of Racetrack Playa leave trails of movement, yet no one has ever seen them moveThere is something utterly magical about the sailing stones of the...
View ArticleMoonhole Homes in Moonhole, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Named for the extraordinary stone arch that stretches over the first home built in the community, Moonhole is an eclectic community of homes designed to blend with nature.Founded in the 1960s by New...
View ArticleForbidden Corner in Leyburn , England
Designed in 1980 as a private pleasure garden in the great English tradition of eccentric green spaces, the Forbidden Corner contains follies and grottoes, statues, installations, tunnels and...
View ArticleEmperor Norton's Grave in Colma, California
Once a wealthy San Francisco businessman and land owner, Joshua Norton lost his fortune speculating on rice prices in the 1850s and descended into a gloomy and destitute self-exile for several years....
View ArticlePortrait of Emperor Norton in San Francisco, California
"Who's the dead guy in the painting?""Emperor Norton""Edward Norton? That doesn't look anything like Edward Norton."From above the bar, tucked in above the TV showing the ball game, a portrait of a...
View ArticleGallery of Beauties - Schönheitengalarie in Munich, Germany
King Ludwig I of Bavaria had a thing for the ladies, and he filled a hall at Schloss Nymphenburg, the summer palace near Munich, with portraits of his favorites.Ludwig I (grandfather to "Mad King"...
View ArticleLotta's Fountain in San Francisco, California
Standing at the corner of Market, Geary and Kearny streets in San Francisco, Lotta's Fountain is a twenty-four foot cast iron sculpture, painted bronze and adorned with lion's heads, griffins, and...
View ArticlePlaque to Bummer & Lazarus in San Francisco, California
Historians with a flare for the romantic place these two hounds at the side of San Francisco's most colorful hero, Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the united States and protector of Mexico, but they were...
View ArticleRoberts Ranch in Livermore, Colorado
The earthy must of a hike over undeveloped land. The thick silence of a starry night stretched over an unspoiled horizon. The rolling folds of a misty morning as daybreak settles in above the...
View ArticleThe Table That Could Talk To The Dead in Rochester , New York
Spiritualism, the belief that the living can talk with the dead, became an American phenomena in the mid-19th century. At the forefront of this phenomena were the Fox Sisters. There were three Fox...
View ArticleLichgate on High Road in Tallahassee, Florida
Near the main campus of Florida State University and nestled between student apartment complexes lies a hidden three-acre green space seemingly from another time and place.Lichgate on High Road is the...
View ArticleLion of The Botanical Gardens in Paris, France
Paris's legendary botanical gardens are as secretive as they are huge, and here scientific pursuits merge with fantasy lands on a regular basis.Access the botanical gardens, or Jardins des Plantes, via...
View ArticleArchipelago Cinema in Thailand
Archipelago Cinema is perhaps the first floating cinema to ever exist.Designed by a German architect Ole Scheeren, he said he aimed to create "A sense of temporality, randomness, almost like driftwood....
View ArticleWorld's First Pet Cemetery in Asnières-sur-Seine, France
Opened in 1899, the The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is the oldest pet cemetery in Europe, and perhaps the world, depending on your definition of a "pet cemetery." The grave of...
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