Huntsville, Texas
Sam Houston Statue
The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Huntsville, Texas
The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
Shoreham, New York
An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.
New York, New York
One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.
Paris, France
This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Cambridge, England
Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.
Oxford, England
Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.
Oxford, England
Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.
Oxford, England
One of Europe's oldest libraries.
London, England
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
London, England
Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.
London, England
Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
London, England
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
London, England
The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Denver, Colorado
A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.