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MrJaniak

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Places I've been

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The recreated set towers over the shopping center.
Permanently Closed

Los Angeles, California

The Babylon Court

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

1950s Brown Derby on Wilshire Boulevard.

Los Angeles, California

Brown Derby

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The building lit up at night.

Los Angeles, California

LAX Theme Building

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The Bonaventure Hotel.

Los Angeles, California

The Bonaventure Hotel

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

More girth than any tree in the world.

Santa María del Tule, Mexico

El Árbol del Tule (The Tule Tree)

The stoutest tree in the world.

The stunning shape and color of this cliff gives it the appearance of a waterfall

San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Mexico

Hierve El Agua

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

Quetzalcoatl’s Nest

Naucalpan, Mexico

El Nido de Quetzalcóatl

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

Entering the bustling lobby of Correo Mayor

Mexico City, Mexico

Palacio Postal

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

David Rice Atchison Grave.

Plattsburg, Missouri

Grave of David Rice Atchison

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

A diorama marking the beginning of the Pony Express.

St. Joseph, Missouri

The Pony Express National Historic Trail and Museum

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

The bullet hole, now greatly expanded.

St. Joseph, Missouri

Jesse James Home Museum

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

The Great Mural Wall of Topeka.

Topeka, Kansas

Great Mural Wall of Topeka

Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.

The Equality House before it was remodeled.

Topeka, Kansas

Equality House

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

Boy and Frog.

Kansas City, Missouri

Boy and Frog Fountain

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Country Club Plaza

Kansas City, Missouri

Country Club Plaza

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

View of south side of museum.

Kansas City, Missouri

World's Largest Shuttlecocks

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Exterior West side.

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Workhouse

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The Hemingway Memorial

Sun Valley, Idaho

The Hemingway Memorial

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Albertsons Stadium

Boise, Idaho

Albertsons Stadium

Boise State's stadium was the first non-green football field in the world.

The Basque Block

Boise, Idaho

The Basque Block

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

Ernest Hemingway's Grave

Sun Valley, Idaho

Ernest Hemingway's Grave

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Inside the Rothko Chapel

Houston, Texas

Rothko Chapel

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Plaque close-up.

New York, New York

Nathan Hale Hanging Site

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

The Dyckman Farmhouse

New York, New York

Dyckman Farmhouse

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

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