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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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Doors Of Fame

Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

The Doors of Fame

These old doors are covered in the signatures of Rehoboth Beach artists dating back to the 1930s.

Rehoboth Beach Temperance Fountain

Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Rehoboth Beach Temperance Fountain

Once used as a deterrent to drinking alcohol.

Tumalo Falls.

Bend, Oregon

Tumalo Falls

An attractive free-plunge waterfall outside Bend in the Deschutes National Forest.

Beware, don't look into this clown's eyes for too long!

Havre de Grace, Maryland

Dr. Gloom's Crypt of Curiosities

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Cookes House

York, Pennsylvania

Cookes House

Political activist and writer Thomas Paine once lodged at this location.

"Hex House" former home of Nelson D. Rehmeyer.

Stewartstown, Pennsylvania

Rehmeyer's Hollow

The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.

The pointed, main entry gate.

Dalmellington, Scotland

Loch Doon Castle

A lochside castle linked to Robert the Bruce, but not everything is as it seems!

Museum Ali Pasha and Revolutionary Period, Ioannina, Greece

Ioannina Island, Greece

Museum Ali Pasha and Revolutionary Period

A museum inside a Byzantine island monastery.

The tree is easily reached via a paved trail frequently visited by hikers and bikers.

Spring Hill, Florida

Wind Chime Memorial Tree

A live oak beside a Florida bike trail has become a shimmering, musical memorial.

Sponsored By Florida's Adventure Coast
The Abbot's Porch

Cerne Abbas, England

Cerne Abbey

A privately owned Benedictine estate founded in 987, where a Tudor gatehouse and rare medieval guest house survive within a living historic manor in the Dorset village famous for its ancient chalk giant.

The dinosaur is a prime example of the "novelty architecture" popularized with the rise of the automobile.

Spring Hill, Florida

Sinclair Dinosaur Gas Station

A 110-foot concrete dinosaur once sold fossil fuel from its belly.

Sponsored By Florida's Adventure Coast
This mermaid, Saguara, is inspired by Arizona's wildlife and cultures.

Brooksville, Florida

Mermaid Tale Trail

Dozens of giant mermaids are hidden across Florida’s coast in parks, yards, and beaches.

Sponsored By Florida's Adventure Coast
World Famous Talking Bear

Oakhurst, California

World Famous Talking Bear

A campy fiberglass statue welcomes visitors to this small town in central California.

Yarm Castle

Stockton-on-Tees, England

Yarm Castle

Turrets, ramparts and towers, this Teesside castle has them all, but it's not all as it seems.

Local favorite since way back!

Hood River, Oregon

Twin Peaks Drive In

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.

Black Death Monument (Peststøtten)

Oslo, Norway

Black Death Monument (Peststøtten)

Centuries before masks and sanitizer, Oslo’s oldest public monument remembers its last plague dead.

Dubai Mall Aquarium Tunnel

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The Aquarium at Dubai Mall

One of the world’s largest suspended aquariums, located in Dubai Mall.

The busts sit on marble pedestals, visible from the Katy Freeway.

Houston, Texas

Mount Rush Hour

Formally known as American Statesmanship Park, this roadside collection of eighteen-foot presidential busts and Texas statesmen is located only minutes away from the former studio of Houston sculptor David Adickes.

Expedition Bigfoot (The Sasquatch Museum)

Cherry Log, Georgia

Expedition Bigfoot (The Sasquatch Museum)

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

Part of Providence Canyon from rim near entrance road

Lumpkin, Georgia

Providence Canyon State Outdoor Recreation Area

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

A tree spirit.

Saint Simons Island, Georgia

Saint Simons Island Tree Spirits

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

First Down Moses

Notre Dame, Indiana

First Down Moses

A 17-foot-tall bronze statue of Moses with an index finger pointed towards the heavens signaling first down for the football team.

‘The Devil is Loose’

Middelfart, Denmark

‘The Devil is Loose’

A chimeric bronze demon, embodying the chaotic spirit of a new millennium.

"Main" Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI 4/4/2026

Detroit, Michigan

Main Detroit Public Library

It's an incredibly beautiful city public space, with spacious rooms to study and admire the artwork.

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