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The site of Buster Keaton Studios.

Los Angeles, California

The Many Plaques of Buster Keaton Studios

The silent film master's legacy commemorated in all the right and wrong places.

Sultan the Pit Pony.

Caerphilly, Wales

Sultan the Pit Pony

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

Steel Men Of Wearside.

Monkwearmouth, England

Steel Men Of Wearside

This tribute to Sunderland's mining past stands outside the home of its football club.

Reykjavik, Iceland

Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

The School of Ballet, part of the National Arts Schools in Cuba.

Cuba's National Art Schools Are an Unfinished Masterpiece

The designs fell out of favor before construction was completed.

Sarah Laskow September 20, 2018

Sunderland, England

The Red House

An enigmatic sculpture depicts a ruined home with debris stretching for over half a mile along the river.

Naturalistic rock art example.

Mwela Rock Art Paintings

One of the largest concentrations of rock paintings in Southern Africa.

Inside Coldstones Cut.

Harrogate, England

Coldstones Cut

A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.

"The Indian and the Anteater" sculpture.

São Paulo, Brazil

'The Indian and the Anteater' Sculpture

This mesmerizing statue of a child wrestling an anteater symbolizes the native culture and biodiversity of São Paulo.

Garbage Hill forever

Winnipeg Doesn’t Know Who Erected This Amazing Sign on a Landfill-Turned-Park

It looked like the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles.

Sarah Laskow September 11, 2018

The mural "Duality."

Mexico City, Mexico

Dualidad Mural

This immense scene of a cosmic battle between a jaguar and serpent illustrates the Aztec concept of the duality of life.

Washington, D.C.

The Preamble in License Plates

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

Bethlehem.

Calhoun, Georgia

Rock Garden Calhoun

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

La Madone de São Paulo mural.

São Paulo, Brazil

La Madone de São Paulo

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

The Magical World of Microscopic Food

How a "bio artist" captures extraordinary images of everyday edibles.

Lizzie Philip September 7, 2018

Permanently Closed

Lizzie Borden.

Beverly, Massachusetts

Mice Manor

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

'As always, tomorrow is in our hands' mural.

São Paulo, Brazil

Sé Station Mural

An enigmatic mural hiding in plain sight in one of São Paulo's busiest metro stations.

A selection from Evan Yee's <em>Amber Pieces.</em>

A Time-Twisting Visit to the Museum of Capitalism

How artists and curators are attempting to defamiliarize America's current economic era.

Cara Giaimo September 5, 2018