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Giant Ants in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Enormous ant sculptures crawl up the facade of the building where Zipperhead was once located. Zipperhead was a punk clothing and accessory shop, immortalized by the Dead Milkmen in their song "Punk...
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Woodsreef Asbestos Mine in Woodsreef, Australia
Asbestos is a naturally forming silicate crystal, with some wonderful properties. It is strong, cheap, and resistant to fire, chemical and electrical damage. Of course it has the side effect of giving...
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The Hobo Museum in Britt , Iowa
“Decide your own life, don't let another person run or rule you.“ This is the first rule of the Hobo ethical code. In most people's mind hoboes are a thing of the past, frozen in time since the...
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Global Effects, Inc. in Los Angeles, California
Aerospace and entertainment are familiar bedfellows.One of the few places in Tinsel Town that can bridge this magical coupling is Global Effects, Inc, a multi-faceted prop and effects house that, among...
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The Festival of Paucartambo in Paucartambo, Peru
Except for the five summer days of alcohol, fireworks, and dancing, Paucartambo is a shuttered up ghost town.The original Andean patrimonial festival takes place in a picturesque white-washed town with...
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The National Library of Finland in Helsinki, Finland
Within the vast halls of this architecturally eclectic library sits a treasure of Finnish cultural knowledge, gathered from every source available and preserved by Finnish law.Assigned by the state the...
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Veijo Rönkkönen Sculpture Garden in Parikkala, Finland
Over the course of nearly 50 years, from the early 1960s until his death in 2010, Finnish-born artist Veijo Rönkkönen constructed nearly 500 concrete figures and displayed them on the grounds of the...
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Parque del Pasatiempo in Betanzos, Spain
Translated as "Pastime Park" or "The Hobby," Parque del Pasatiempo offers a turn-of-the-century perspective on the wonders of the world.Completed in 1914, the park was commissioned by the García...
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Edouard Arsenault Bottle Houses in Canada
In 1979 at the age of 66 Edouard Arsenault, inspired by a postcard sent to him by his daughter depicting a glass castle in Vancouver, began collecting and cleaning the glass bottles that would...
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The Tank in Rangely, Colorado
In the small, remote town of Rangely Colorado, there is a large, rusty, metal water storage tank.Never used for its intended purpose, it has found a new purpose as a concert hall. Friends of the Tank,...
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Brain Collection at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas
Somewhere in the vast hallways of the University of Texas at Austin, there is a storage closet filled with the maladjusted brains of roughly one hundred former patients of the Texas State Mental...
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Space Shuttle Endeavour in Los Angeles, California
People all across the country and up and down the coast of California clamored onto rooftops, swarmed bridges and climbed the highest buildings to say goodbye to Endeavour OV-105 on its final...
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SS Sapona in The Bahamas
The SS Sapona - a concrete steamer built for war, used for decadence, and in death, serving as a haunting and beautiful place for divers to explore.The SS Sapona never had a chance to live up to her...
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Wolfe's Cove Tunnel in Quebec City, Canada
Three hundred and thirty feet below Quebec city runs the Wolfe's Cove Tunnel. The 1800 foot long tunnel was built by the Canadian Pacific Railways in 1930. It passes beneath the Belvedere avenue and...
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Fire-Breathing Dragon Bridge in Da Nang, Vietnam
This 1,864-foot-long bridge has a steel dragon that breathes fire.Opened on March 29, 2013, the bridge commemorates the 38th anniversary of the port city of Da Nang's taking by the North Vietnamese...
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Stagecoach Inn Museum in Newbury Park, California
Originally called the Grand Union Hotel, the Stagecoach Inn was built in 1876 and now sits hidden in plain sight in an oak tree clearing adjacent to a public park and modern-day tracked homes.It was...
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Pier 22 1/2 & the SFFD Fire Boats in San Francisco, California
A city with a history of devastating fires and a design that invites disaster, San Francisco runs a tight ship when it comes to emergency services, and the fireboats are a historical and quite literal...
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1906 Earthquake Fence in Point Reyes National Seashore, California
At 5:13 am on April 18, 1906 the San Andreas fault slipped, creating an earthquake that famously set San Francisco ablaze.The richter scale had not yet been invented at the time of the quake, but more...
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Lotta'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...
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Site of 1906 Earthquake Refugee Camps in San Francisco, California
The earthquake that shook San Francisco in the early morning hours of April 18, 1906 left fires blazing for three days, devastating the city.Tens of thousands fled the city in the aftermath, but the an...
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