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asdonkar

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Freelance photographer, holder of season tickets to the University of North Carolina baseball and women's basketball teams, Master of Library Science, civil servant. I like rock music, sweet tea, pedal steel played well, Fuji 1600 ISO film, the Band & the Rolling Stones, vintage dresses, HOKA trail runners, my Chippewa motorcycle boots, old rangefinders and Holgas, North Carolina beaches, pitching and defense, Gunnar Henderson, and chili cheese hotdogs.
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Slocum/Maconaquah

Wabash, Indiana

The Slocum Cemetery

Frances Slocum was taken by Delaware Indians in 1778 and lived as, Maconaquah, a Miami Indian until her death in 1847.

TACK marks the spot

Elizabethtown, Kentucky

World's Largest Pin

The world's largest pin (or tack) is located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, at the Transit Authority of Central Kentucky (TACK) headquarters.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Brookline, Massachusetts

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

The home of the founder of American landscape architecture puts his principles into practice.

Old Palmer Lake Cemetery

Larkspur, Colorado

Old Palmer Lake Cemetery

In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.

Adorned with a festive shrubbery!

Richmond, Indiana

Madonna of the Trail

The fifth geographically in a series of twelve statues commemorating westward expansion in the United States.

Hope Cathedral

Fredrikstad, Norway

Hope Cathedral

A floating interfaith chapel made from ocean plastic.

Ruins of Tivetshall St Mary Church

Tivetshall St Mary, England

Ruins of Tivetshall St Mary Church

Ruins of a church in a peaceful location overlooking fields.

Hull Lifesaving Museum

Hull, Massachusetts

Hull Lifesaving Museum

The original base for shipwreck rescues in Boston Harbor in the original Point Allerton Lifesaving Station opened in 1889.

Los Lagartos Statue

El Paso, Texas

Los Lagartos Statue

This statue is in the center of San Jacinto Plaza, commemorating the live alligator pond that once stood in the area.

McRaven - Mississippi's most haunted house

Vicksburg, Mississippi

McRaven Tour Home

Built in 1797, this is Mississippi’s most haunted house.

‘Strange Fruit’

Bordeaux, France

‘Strange Fruit’

This striking sculpture was created in memory of enslaved people, acknowledging that the city of Bordeaux was France’s second-largest slave-trade port.

Maison Culturelle du Tapis

Marrakesh, Morocco

Maison Culturelle du Tapis

A unique museum focusing on the history of carpets and fabrics from different tribes and eras in Moroccan history.

Tom Hunley General Store

Mathews, Virginia

Mathews Museum

A walk-through general store display reveals how community once functioned in rural coastal America.

Norwich Horton Sphere

Norwich, Connecticut

Norwich Horton Sphere

Abandoned 37.5' diameter rusted metal sphere sitting in the woods.

Praia dos Cristais

Laxe, Spain

Praia dos Cristais

Tiny Spanish beach covered in sea glass.

Battleship's Grave.

Montpelier Station, Virginia

Montpelier Horse Cemetery

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

Interior view of the recently excavated chemical furnace in the ground floor of the University of Virginia's Rotunda

Charlottesville, Virginia

University of Virginia’s Hidden Chemical Hearth

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

Caves of Diros

Pirgos Dirou, Greece

Caves of Diros

This cave complex might provide a link between the Neolithic and the Classical Greek period.

The Nassawango Iron Furnace

Snow Hill, Maryland

Furnace Town

A living history village recreates a vanished 19th century community.

Takachiho Gorge

Takachiho, Japan

Takachiho Gorge

Row through this enchanted narrow chasm whose stones are said to resemble dragon scales.

Entrance

Sumter, South Carolina

Swan Lake Iris Gardens

This park is home to all 8 swan species, and also has extensive plantings of Japanese Iris.

St. Margaret's Well

Edinburgh, Scotland

St. Margaret's Well

An ancient healing font dedicated to an 11th-century matriarch was moved to make way for progress.

Cozy Inn’s Iconic Neon Sign

Janesville, Wisconsin

Cozy Inn Restaurant

Wisconsin’s oldest Chinese restaurant, still glowing beneath its historic neon sign.

View of the park's main waterway

Bellevue, Washington

Mercer Slough Nature Park

This 329-acre nature park is Lake Washington's largest remaining wetland ecosystem.

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