New Harmony, Indiana
'A Healing Palindrome'
Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
New Harmony, Indiana
Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.
Buttonwillow, California
In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.
Tainan City, Taiwan
A plaque by the roadside describes a three-dimensional glossary of an imagined language where words are numbers and numbers are words.
Madrid, Spain
In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.
Basel, Switzerland
Along the Rhine, about a mile from the historic Munster, learn the heartrending story of two lovers torn asunder, cast into unknown layers of time and space.
Oracle, Arizona
A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
Terre Haute, Indiana
In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.
Yerevan, Armenia
Despite producing just a handful of movies, a brave and lyrical filmmaker has an entire museum dedicated to him.
East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.
Davenport, Australia
Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.
Palos Verdes Estates, California
Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.
Dumbleyung, Australia
See the lake and replica where a daredevil broke both world land and water speed records in the same year.
Athens, Georgia
A white oak with property rights.
Franklinford, Australia
This Franklinford, Australia site was once home to one of the remotest churches of its faith—in the fictional world of the Kcymaerxthaere.
South San Francisco, California
A large instrument played by the wind.
Valparaiso, Chile
Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.
Wagin, Australia
Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.
Punta Arenas, Chile
The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Key West, Florida
Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.
Summerland Key, Florida
Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Goldendale, Washington
A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.