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Jonathan Carey

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Jonathan Carey is originally from Petersburg, Virginia. He attended the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, he studied health, science, and urban reporting. After graduation, he began a fellowship at Audubon Magazine, and later wrote for HotNewHipHop.com (covering breaking news in sports and music, particularly hip-hop and jazz culture), Everyday Health, and New Food Economy. He also served as a Staff Writer for start-up Sentient Media, where he wrote investigative stories about animal welfare, factory farming, and the influence of big agriculture on local politics. Jonathan is a diehard basketball and football fan, and of course a music fanatic. He is also an animal lover, none more than his dog, Bajan. And he's a huge history buff.

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The original “flame of knowledge” that once graced the Library of Congress and was replaced with facsimile in 1996.

Fort Meade, Maryland

Architect of the Capitol Archival Warehouse

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

Kurt Cobain's Benches.

Seattle, Washington

Kurt Cobain's Benches

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

R2-D2 in the Folimanka Park in Prague.

Prague, Czechia

R2-D2 of Prague

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

The Denver Zine Library works to build the zine community by holding workshops, building curriculum, and sponsoring the Denver Zine Fest.

Denver, Colorado

Denver Zine Library

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

Le Cimetière du Calvaire is Paris' oldest and smallest cemetery.

Paris, France

Cimetière du Calvaire

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The Living Fence

Ohrdruf, Germany

The Living Fence

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

"Father of the Nation" of Argentina, Chile, and Peru.

Los Angeles, California

José de San Martín Bust

A forgotten tribute to a South American hero hidden in a cluster of traffic islands.

Pier2 Art Center

Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Pier2 Art Center

A thriving community of Taiwanese art.

Riff Raff.

Hamilton, New Zealand

Riff Raff Statue

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."

Looking ahead on the slide.

Beijing, China

Great Wall of China Slide

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

DEVIL-ish Little Things Museum.

Vancouver, Washington

DEVIL-ish Little Things Museum

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

The Platanenkuben.

Nagold, Germany

Platanenkubus

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

Aerial view of car wash

Katy, Texas

World’s Longest Car Wash

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Hotel Belvédère.

Obergoms VS, Switzerland

Hotel Belvédère

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

Staufen geothermal cracks 2016 (some repairs made between 2013-2016)

Staufen im Breisgau, Germany

The Cracking Buildings of Staufen

A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.

BOA museum.

London, England

British Optical Association Museum

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

Super PACyderm.
Permanently Closed

Silver Spring, Maryland

Super PACyderm

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

Extinct woolly rhino skull.

Toronto, Ontario

SkullStore Oddity Shop

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

Down periscope.

Washington, D.C.

USS Balao Conning Tower

Part of a WWII submarine is lurking outside the Washington Navy Yard parking lot.

Insano

Aquiraz, Brazil

Insano Body Slide

From 135 feet high riders plunge down the world's tallest freestanding body slide at 65 mph.

APEX Electronics

Los Angeles, California

APEX Electronics

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

Christ carrying the cross - Aleijadinho

Ouro Preto, Brazil

Museu do Aleijadinho

A display of works by one of the world masters sacred art, an 18th-century Brazilian sculptor nicknamed "the little cripple."

Alferd Packer Cannibal Plaque

Washington, D.C.

Alferd Packer Cannibal Plaque

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

Dinosaur footprint at Valley of the Dinosaurs

Sousa, Brazil

Valley of the Dinosaurs

One of the few places in the world where visitors can walk alongside fossilized tracks from 80 different dinosaur species.

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