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Erin Johnson

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Whaley House

San Diego, California

Whaley House

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

San Diego Model Railroad Museum

San Diego, California

San Diego Model Railroad Museum

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

A truck at the M*A*S*H shooting location.

Agoura Hills, California

M*A*S*H Filming Location

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Mammoth skull donated to the Adventurer's Club in 1925 by club member Joseph Chilberg.

Los Angeles, California

The Adventurers' Club of Los Angeles

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

Impaled Skull of Klaus Stortebeker

Hamburg, Germany

Impaled Skull of Klaus Stortebeker

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

2020-10-28

Cefalù, Italy

Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

Gesundbrunnen Bunker - Entrance from inside

Berlin, Germany

Berliner Unterwelten (Subterranean Berlin)

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Knut the Polar Bear

Berlin, Germany

Knut the Polar Bear

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

The Santuario Facade on Monte Pellegrino. (Creative Commons)

Palermo, Italy

Santuario di Santa Rosalia

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Capuchin Monastery Catacombs

Palermo, Italy

Capuchin Monastery Catacombs

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The lamps come from the 1920s and 1930s.

Los Angeles, California

‘Urban Light’

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

View from the baptismal font.

Los Angeles, California

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

The garden and Administration building (a/k/a Star Fleet Academy)

Los Angeles, California

Japanese Garden at the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Musso & Frank Grill, "Oldest Restaurant in Hollywood Since 1919."

Los Angeles, California

Musso and Frank Grill

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Tesla Coil

Los Angeles, California

Griffith Observatory’s Tesla Coil

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

From their website: view of the store as you walk in.

Pasadena, California

Gold Bug

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Eggs imitate art.

Camarillo, California

Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

The glass sparkles in the sun

Los Angeles, California

Phantasma Gloria

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

The neon sign as it was represented on Seinfeld.

New York, New York

Tom's Restaurant

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Sleeping fox of the Fox Salon

Paris, France

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Museum of Hunting and Nature)

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Malibu Hindu Temple

Calabasas, California

Malibu Hindu Temple

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

The Long Now Orrery

San Francisco, California

Long Now Orrery

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

The observatory stands in ruin today.

Chichen Itza, Mexico

El Caracol

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Stairs to cave

New York, New York

The Ramble Cave

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

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