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Fort Collins, Colorado
The Lyric
This dynamic entertainment venue brings a much-needed funkiness to the region with its bizarre art, eclectic films screenings, and peculiar performance pieces.
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The Artist Collective That Brings Heavy Metal Fever Dreams to Life
For nearly 40 years, a rotating cast of artists has made costumes and props for GWAR—the band behind one of the world’s wildest stage shows.
music
Tracing the Funky Story of D.C. Go-Go, From Parties to Protest
It's not every day that a library archive will make you want to boogie.
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Site of Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.
Permanently Closed
Brussels, Belgium
La Pasionaria
This enormous steel tube is the biggest speaking horn in the world.
Washington, D.C.
Evans-Tibbs House
The former home of Lillian Evans Tibbs and her grandson, Thurlow Evans Tibbs Jr., whose prodigious contributions to music and art spanned more than 90 years.
Permanently Closed
Louisa, Kentucky
Kentucky Country Music Museum
While filling up your gas tank in eastern Kentucky, you just might stumble into this collection of country music memorabilia.
Magnolia, Mississippi
Lynyrd Skynyrd Monument
A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.
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Podcast: Big Bertha Drum
Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
Mexico City, Mexico
Rockdrigo Memorial
A statue in Balderas subway station honors the rock star who wrote about it in a song.
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Podcast: The Tank
Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Cactus Club
This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.
Hazlehurst, Mississippi
Robert Johnson House
A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.
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Video: The Interactive History of Janis Joplin’s Hometown
This museum is home to the largest mural in the Southwest as well as a gallery paying tribute to Janis Joplin, Port Arthur’s own star.
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Podcast: The Village Where Every Person’s Name Is a Song
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Podcast: The Kalamazoo Gals of the Old Gibson Guitar Factory
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For Italy's Musical Woods, Threats From Without and Within
Val di Fiemme, source of famed "resonance wood" for instruments, faces wind storms, climate change, and beetle infestation.
Manchester, England
Sifters Record Shop
This small record store was a favorite of Oasis's Noel and Liam Gallagher, who mentioned it in one of their early songs.
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