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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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Grave of Gracie Watson

Savannah, Georgia

Grave of Gracie Watson

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

Site of the Original Globe Theatre

London, England

Site of the Original Globe Theatre

The ground on which Shakespeare’s initial playhouse once stood.

The external cloister

Florence, Italy

Cloister of the Dead

A haunting medieval cloister that once served as the friars’ burial ground.

Floral Clock

Edinburgh, Scotland

Floral Clock

The oldest floral clock in the world still functions today.

Grave slab at Slavín, crowned by the angel of the nation, symbolising honour, remembrance, and the legacy of Czech cultural figures.

Prague, Czechia

The Slavín Tomb at Vyšehrad Cemetery

This monumental neo-Renaissance tomb in Vyšehrad Cemetery is the final resting place for Czech cultural legends.

Perry Hall Mansion

Perry Hall, Maryland

Perry Hall Mansion

The Perry Hall Mansion is noteworthy for its role in the founding of American Methodism and its continued representation of Perry Hall's historical and cultural identity.

One of Hershey Trolley Works mobile stages.

Hershey, Pennsylvania

Hershey’s Chocolate World and Hershey Trolley Works

This mobile theater show highlights the story of Hershey through fun facts, unique stories, and plenty of candy samples.

Ma & Pass Overpass

Towson, Maryland

Ma & Pass Overpass

The stone supports mark where a historic railroad once crossed one of Towson’s main roads.

Cumberland's Stone

Culloden Moor, Scotland

Cumberland's Stone

This rock bore witness to the last pitched battle fought on British soil.

Old Carbonton Dam

Sanford, North Carolina

Old Carbonton Dam

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

Thousands of bags of chips washed up on Hatteras Island.

Hatteras, North Carolina

Shipwrecked Doritos

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

Charleston Light

Sullivan's Island, South Carolina

Charleston Light

This triangular lighthouse is one of the most modern in the U.S.

Buried beneath the museum

New Haven, Connecticut

John Trumbull's Grave

An artist of the American Revolution is entombed beneath the Yale art gallery he founded.

Mercury Cougar

Zebulon, North Carolina

Mercury Cougar

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

St. Thomas Episcopal Church

Bath, North Carolina

Thomas Episcopal Church

The oldest church building in the state.

Submerged dugout canoe.

Creswell, North Carolina

Dugout Canoes at Lake Phelps of Pettigrew State Park

This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.

Jockey's Ridge

Nags Head, North Carolina

Jockey's Ridge

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Interior of the Folk Art Center.

Asheville, North Carolina

Folk Art Center

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Trail at Craggy.

Black Mountain, North Carolina

Craggy Gardens Rhododendron Tunnels

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

Ponds at Barbican Estate.

London, England

The Barbican Estate

This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.

Entrance hall to the Military History Museum

Vienna, Austria

Vienna Arsenal (Military History Museum)

The world’s oldest military museum has remained largely unchanged since the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Interior of the historic roundhouse.

Baltimore, Maryland

The B&O Railroad Museum

At the birthplace of American railroading, a world-class collection of historic trains.

What appears to be an ancient Greek ruin is, in fact, a colossal mess.

Edinburgh, Scotland

National Monument of Scotland

A never-finished memorial to the heroes of the Napoleonic War has become "Scotland's Folly."

Another view of the advertisement.

Skagway, Alaska

Kirmse’s Billboard

This "Alaska-style" billboard is over 100 years old.

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