England
Maunsell Army Sea Forts
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
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England
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
Gaspé, Québec
When World War II came to Canada, Fort Péninsule was part of the first line of defense for Allied shipping convoys.
Shreveport, Louisiana
Learn about the history of Shreveport in one of the city’s oldest surviving buildings.
St Francisville, Louisiana
Located in a remote part of a Louisiana wildlife refuge, this tree has been standing for more than 1,200 years.
St. Francisville, Louisiana
A Rodeo for Prisoners.
St. Francisville, Louisiana
Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.
Chauvin, Louisiana
Installed as a beacon of hope for a hurricane-racked island, the statue had to be moved multiple times due to the eroding coast.
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.
Dublin, Texas
This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.
St. Louis Park, Minnesota
This unassuimng grain elevator, commonly confused for a smokestack, helped inspire the modern architecture movement.
Birmingham, Alabama
A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.
London, England
This sculpture encompasses the emotion of rail travel.
London, England
This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.
Kansas City, Missouri
This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.
Hay-on-Wye, Wales
In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.
Franklinford, Australia
This Franklinford, Australia site was once home to one of the remotest churches of its faith—in the fictional world of the Kcymaerxthaere.
Toberonochy, Scotland
A plaque installed underwater marks the fall of a royal family from an imagined parallel universe—part of a globe-spanning art project.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.
Poczopek, Poland
A marker honors the brief peace found by a tormented artist in the fictional land of Kcymaerxthaere.
Basel, Switzerland
Along the Rhine, about a mile from the historic Munster, learn the heartrending story of two lovers torn asunder, cast into unknown layers of time and space.
London, England
On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.
Box Elder County, Utah
This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.
Los Angeles, California
Behind legendary Meltdown Comics is a marker for an engineered musical roadway of the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Kcymaerxthaere.
Douglas, Michigan
On the shores of Lake Kalamazoo, a plaque marks a fictional event where an island nation ran aground.