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London, England
'Great Dangaroo Flood'
On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.
Terre Haute, Indiana
'Crossroads of Kymaerica'
In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.
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Los Angeles, California
'Remnal of a Senging Chave'
Behind legendary Meltdown Comics is a marker for an engineered musical roadway of the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Kcymaerxthaere.
Buttonwillow, California
'Buttonwillow Bivouac'
In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.
Holland, Michigan
'Nozoimi'
Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.
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New York, New York
'The Sale of Manhattan'
Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.
Sibley, Iowa
Hawkeye Point
The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.
Schroeder, Minnesota
Father Baraga's Cross
A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.
New York, New York
Bennett Park
The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.
Boston, Massachusetts
Great Boston Molasses Flood Plaque
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
San Francisco, California
Plaque to Bummer & Lazarus
Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.
Antelope, Oregon
Rajneesh Invasion Plaque
Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.
New York, New York
Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
New York, New York
Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima's Hypocenter
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
Boston, Massachusetts
Cocoanut Grove Fire Plaque
A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.
Cape Otway, Australia
Frederick Valentich Memorial Plaque
A plaque at the lighthouse where Frederick Valentich made his last radio contact before he vanished without a trace.
Edinburgh, Scotland
James Lind's Memorial Tablet
The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."
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