San Francisco, California
The Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.
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San Francisco, California
Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
Orick, California
Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
San Francisco, California
A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.
Pasadena, California
This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.
Lake Los Angeles, California
A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.
Lancaster, California
Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.
Vermillion, South Dakota
One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.
New York, New York
Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.
El Segundo, California
The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.
Burnley, England
A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.
Brussels, Belgium
Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.
Blackpool, England
This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.
Seattle, Washington
A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.
Phoenix, Arizona
This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.
Charlotte, North Carolina
This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.
South San Francisco, California
A large instrument played by the wind.
Dresden, Germany
When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.
London, England
Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.