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Superkilen

Copenhagen, Denmark

Superkilen

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

The Genetically Modified Little Mermaid.

Copenhagen, Denmark

The Genetically Modified Little Mermaid

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

One of the Twelve Stone faces.

Torrig, Denmark

Dodekalitten

An air of mystery pervades this modern-day singing Stonehenge.

A classic hot dog, Icelandic style.

Reykjavik, Iceland

Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

Bridge and quay used in the shark attack scene.

Edgartown, Massachusetts

‘Jaws’ Bridge

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

The historic lanes at Koz's Mini Bowl.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Koz’s Mini Bowl

The last original miniature duckpin bowling lanes in America, located in a Milwaukee dive bar.

View of Silo City and Elevator Alley from the Ohio Street Lift Bridge.

Buffalo, New York

Silo City

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

Vacant houses & street in Love Canal

Niagara Falls, New York

Love Canal Containment Zone

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Quantum Cloud

London, England

Quantum Cloud

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sculpture

Amherst, Massachusetts

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sculpture

A seemingly out-of-place comic book surprise sits on the 21st floor of the tallest university library in the world. 

Hutchison Hall Specimen Collection.

Rochester, New York

Hutchison Hall Specimen Collection

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

Columbian Press.

Rochester, New York

Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Explore the evolution of printing technology, from cuneiform to Kindle.

front of grave stone

Rochester, New York

Sam Patch's Grave

Known by nicknames like the "Jersey Jumper" and the "Daring Yankee," Patch was the first famous daredevil in the United States.

Rochester Abandoned Subway
Permanently Closed

Rochester, New York

Rochester Abandoned Subway

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

Bird's eye view

Rochester, New York

Threshold

A giant steel sculpture with animals in its shadows.

The Playhouse Swillburger

Rochester, New York

The Playhouse Swillburger

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

Strolling along the lilacs.

Rochester, New York

Rochester Lilac Festival

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

Bronze Ballot Box

Rochester, New York

1872 Monument

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

Susan B. Anthony House & Museum

Rochester, New York

Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

Susan B. Anthony Headstone

Rochester, New York

Mount Hope Cemetery

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

The Dr. Seussophone

Rochester, New York

The Dr. Seussophone

A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

Birthplace of Spiritualism

Rochester, New York

The Table That Could Talk To The Dead

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

The Susan B. Anthony (left) and Mary Stafford Anthony (right) graves covered in voting stickers in 2020.

Rochester, New York

Susan B. Anthony's Grave

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

A view of the Biosphere's million-gallon "ocean"

Oracle, Arizona

Biosphere 2

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

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