Places Edited by dominicbenford

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A monument commemorating the discoverer of radio astronomy.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

From silent movie theater to rock &roll palace and beyond.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.