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Kat lives in, and is in love with, Edgewater, Chicago. She likes taking random pictures, particularly of vending machines.
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The Panama Hotel's classic neon at night

Seattle, Washington

Panama Hotel and Tea Shop

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

Dandelion Botanical Company

Sequim, Washington

Dandelion Botanical Company

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

The Old Ballard sign with summer tasting hours.
Permanently Closed

Seattle, Washington

Old Ballard Liquor Co.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

Quiet day at the old Bad Art Museum of Art
Permanently Closed

Seattle, Washington

Seattle's Official Bad Art Museum of Art

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Shops for Mice
Permanently Closed

Malmö, Sweden

Tiny Mouse Shops of Malmö

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

A tuberculosis hut converted into a visitor center at Rock Ledge Ranch

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Tuberculosis Huts

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

Peaks of the Tempodrom

Berlin, Germany

Liquidrom

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

Holiday Nostalgia Train

New York, New York

Holiday Nostalgia Train

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

The cemetery on Ricker Mountain.

Waterbury, Vermont

Ricker Basin

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

Typical intersection.
Permanently Closed

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Freight Tunnels

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

Vending machine at Glaum Egg Ranch

Aptos, California

Egg Vending Machine at Glaum Ranch

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

The Earl of Sandwich
Permanently Closed

Boston, Massachusetts

The Earl of Sandwich

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Selig's Chicago studios, extant building in the foreground

Chicago, Illinois

Former Site of Selig Polyscope Film Studios

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

Wilson Castle

Rutland, Vermont

Wilson Castle

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

The tiny house and garden.

Valencia, Spain

Cat House

This house's itty bitty size means no humans allowed.

Bronze plaque showing Larado Taft's seated Statue of Liberty

Chicago, Illinois

Heald Square Monument's Statue of Liberty

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

Tiffany Glass Mural

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tiffany Glass Mural ‘The Dream Garden’

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

Lower East Side Toy Company (The Back Room)

New York, New York

Lower East Side Toy Company (The Back Room)

Become a prohibition rebel.

The Freakybuttrue Peculiarium

Portland, Oregon

The Freakybuttrue Peculiarium

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Dining room at the Madonna Inn

San Luis Obispo, California

Madonna Inn

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Alnwick Poison Garden

Alnwick, England

Alnwick Poison Garden

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

Mµseum
Permanently Closed

Somerville, Massachusetts

Mµseum - The Tiny Museum

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

Rimsky-Korsakoffee House

Portland, Oregon

Rimsky-Korsakoffee House

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

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