Places Edited by renkessler

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.