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AaronNetsky

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"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot
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Abermarle Terrace

Brooklyn, New York

Albemarle-Kenmore Terraces

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

The Kaskaskia Dragon.

Vandalia, Illinois

The Kaskaskia Dragon

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

Old Crossing Treaty Monument

Huot, Minnesota

Old Crossing Treaty Memorial

A lone bronze figure stands in memory of historic a 19th century land grab.

Rimwood Chapel
Permanently Closed

Hersey, Michigan

Rimwood Chapel

The smallest useable chapel in Michigan is five-by-eight feet and has seating for three.

Central Electric Ruins.

Ronda, Spain

Central Electric Ruins

The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.

Hore Abbey.

Cashel, Ireland

Hore Abbey

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

Entrance gates to The Mount

London, England

The Mount

The remains of a historic football stadium that once hosted 50,000 spectators.

The Lake Michigan crucifix under water and ice.

Petoskey, Michigan

Lake Michigan Crucifix

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

Whitman's tomb.

Camden, New Jersey

Walt Whitman's Grave

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

Ethyl.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Ethyl the Whale

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

The salt marsh south of the nature center.

Brooklyn, New York

Marine Park Salt Marsh

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

Faulkner House Books.

New Orleans, Louisiana

Faulkner House Books

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Courtyard.

Brooklyn, New York

Leroy's Place

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

Edward M. Cotter (fireboat).

Buffalo, New York

Edward M. Cotter

This vessel is believed to be the oldest operating fireboat in the world.

Renaissance Book Shop

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Renaissance Book Shop

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

Close up of the tree.

Wendover, Utah

Desert Bottle Tree

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

The grave.

Peterborough, England

Old Scarlett's Grave

A humble homage to a gravedigger tucked within the dignified English cathedral.

Elephant Building.

Bangkok, Thailand

Elephant Building

This Bangkok high-rise looks like a rudimentary LEGO elephant.

View from an easily accessible beach directly nearby.

Anacortes, Washington

La Merced Breakwater - Overgrown Ship Hulk

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

Malchik Monument.

Moscow, Russia

'Compassion'

A monument to Malchik, a stray dog who lived in a Moscow metro station until his tragic death.

The Rivers cosmogram.

New York, New York

Rivers Cosmogram

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

George Orwell's Grave.

Sutton Courtenay, England

George Orwell's Grave

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

Grave of Walter White

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Grave of Walter White

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

The Deserted Village of Feltville

Berkeley Heights, New Jersey

The Deserted Village of Feltville

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

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