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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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The entrance to Ohki Alley, with the mural

Columbia City, Indiana

Ohki Alley

One of the first soy sauce factories in America, and its storied proprietor, are honored here.

Mercer Union Meetinghouse

Mercer, Maine

Mercer Meeting House

A circa-1800 meeting house that once served as the social and civic heart of this small Maine town.

Old Powder Magazine

Charleston, South Carolina

Old Powder Magazine

The oldest building in Charleston was used to store gunpowder during the American Revolution.

La Haye-de-Routot’s Tree Chapels

La Haye-de-Routot, France

La Haye-de-Routot’s Tree Chapels

Two ancient yew trees with a chapel and an altar built inside their hollow trunks.

Riviera Hotel Arch Ruins

Ormond Beach, Florida

Riviera Hotel Arch Ruins

Faded remnants of the entrance to a Mediterranean-style resort that never fully came to life.

Hungarian Museum of Commerce and Hospitality

Budapest, Hungary

Hungarian Museum of Commerce and Hospitality

One of the few of its type in the world, this museum showcases hotels and business.

Alexa Troll in Detroit Lakes.

Detroit Lakes, Minnesota

Alexa the Troll of Detroit Lakes

This wooden troll marks the starting point for Detroit Lakes' troll scavenger hunt.

Eden Center's Iconic Arch is Modeled on Bến Thành Market in Ho Chi Minh City

Falls Church, Virginia

Eden Center

Northern Virginia’s iconic Vietnamese shopping center.

A mosaic mural

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Schell Street Walls

Walk down an otherwise nondescript alley near Washington Square West in South Philly and find yourself in a vivid, immersive mosaic wonderland.

Sandhills Youth Complex

Raeford, North Carolina

Sandhills Youth Complex

This abandoned building with a murky history has been both a school and a prison.

A view of Hershey Gardens and its conservatory which feature assortment of 3,000 roses representing 115 varieties.

Hershey, Pennsylvania

Hershey Gardens

Themed gardens, a conservatory, and a rose named for Milton Hershey, all overlooking Hersheypark.

The mural hangs directly underneath 42nd Street.

New York, New York

Lichtenstein Subway Mural

A dazzling work by a Pop art legend hangs in one of the world’s busiest subway stations.

View of the exhibiton 'Resande Man' / 'Travelling Man' at Vrak - Museum of Wrecks in Stockholm.

Stockholm, Sweden

Vrak – Museum of Wrecks

A museum that dives into Sweden’s maritime past through preserved shipwrecks and interactive exhibits.

Interior view of Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Thorvaldsens Museum

Where a neoclassical sculptor rests at the heart of the museum devoted to him.

New Lanark Old Burial Ground

South Lanarkshire, Scotland

New Lanark Old Burial Ground

Among the large beech trees of Lanarkshire, Scotland, lies this abandoned cemetery.

House of Music Hungary

Budapest, Hungary

House of Music Hungary

A controversial “crumpet”-shaped museum tries its best to blend in with surrounding parkland.

Skógar Museum

Skógar, Iceland

Skógar Museum

A museum celebrating Icelandic history and technology.

Totempæl

Bergen, Norway

Nordnes Totem Pole

A 10-meter totem pole stands as a tribute to Seattle’s sister city of Bergen, Norway.

Graveface Museum

Savannah, Georgia

Graveface Museum

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

The hand-rolled couscous is worlds away from the stuff in the box.

Paris, France

Le Timgad

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.

Warning: you may never be able to go back to mass-produced versions of jambon-beurre.

Paris, France

Chez Aline

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

Anglers catch bass, trout, walleye, and monster muskies in Tuscarora State Park.

Barnesville, Pennsylvania

Tuscarora State Park

Explore the great outdoors in this popular eastern Pennsylvania park.

Smugglers' Notch Fall Foliage

Stowe, Vermont

Smugglers’ Notch

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

Houseboat Museum Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Houseboat Museum Amsterdam

Discover what life is like on Amsterdam’s famous canals.

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