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Michael Inscoe

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I have a dog. I live in Brooklyn. I take photographs and arrange and rearrange words.

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Hotel Casanus

Stekene, Belgium

Hotel Casanus

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

Museum of Carrots

Raeren, Belgium

Museum of Carrots

This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.

Am Phu cave demon

Da Nang, Vietnam

Am Phu Cave

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

"Some Were Quite Blind" by Carol K. Brown.

Gainesville, Florida

'Some Were Quite Blind'

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

In the town of Konagai bus stops come in different flavors, including strawberry.

Isahaya, Japan

Konagai's Fruit-Shaped Bus Stops

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

Birthplace of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Birthplace of F. Scott Fitzgerald

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

Nine Views

Zagreb, Croatia

Nine Views

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

Tower of the Sun

Suita-shi, Japan

Tower of the Sun

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

Museo Casa de León Trotsky

Mexico City, Mexico

Museo Casa de León Trotsky

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Danse Macabre stained glass.

Lübeck, Germany

Danse Macabre Stained Glass

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

Sati Handprints

Jodhpur, India

Sati Handprints

Fifteen Jodhpur queens left their handprints before going to their fiery death.

The exterior of the house.

Yarmouth, Massachusetts

The Edward Gorey House

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Breuer's least-known masterpiece?

St. Joseph, Minnesota

Saint John's Abbey Church

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

Shanghai, China

Shanghai's 1933 Slaughterhouse

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

Rancho Obi-Wan

Petaluma, California

Rancho Obi-Wan

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

The marker for Chopin's heart

Warsaw, Poland

Chopin's Heart

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

‘Monument to the Unknown Artist’

London, England

‘Monument to the Unknown Artist’

The London statue that imitates passersby.

Posters with a distincy

Shanghai, China

Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

Nathan Bedford Forrest Sculpture
Permanently Closed

Nashville, Tennessee

Ugly Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

VW Bug at the Museo Subacuático de Arte

Cancún, Mexico

Museo Subacuático de Arte

Underwater art project will double as a massive artificial coral reef to help regenerate the damaged ecosystem.

Marx and Engels Forum

Berlin, Germany

Marx and Engels Forum

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

'Totem'

Leuven, Belgium

'Totem'

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

Gum Wall window ledge

Seattle, Washington

Gum Wall

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A tree with exposed roots.

Soest, Netherlands

Lange Duinen

This large sand dune in the Netherlands is home to wind-whipped trees with "floating" roots.

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