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I have been to 115 places and want to visit 5 more!
The Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair interior

Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair

Ann Arbor, Michigan
Placid river biding its time.

Dead River

Zion, Illinois
Lake Berryessa Glory Hole Spillway

Monticello Dam Morning Glory Spillway

Napa, California
Abandoned fortifications at Fort Miley

Fort Miley Batteries

San Francisco, California

The Bone Room

Berkeley, California

Lenin Statue of Fremont

Seattle, Washington

The Caryatids of Book Tower

Detroit, Michigan
USS Iowa - now relocated to LA

Suisun Bay Ghost Fleet

Benecia, California
Nepenthes pitcher plants - beautiful killers

San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers

San Francisco, California

Lotta's Fountain

San Francisco, California

Mammoth Cave

Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

The Submarine House

Los Gatos, California
Intuit's main gallery. (Intuit)

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

Chicago, Illinois

Safe House

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley, California

Tallest Filing Cabinet on Earth

Burlington, Vermont

Devil's Tower

Devils Tower, Wyoming
Kings Bowl and Great Rift from air. King's Bowl is a phreatic explosion pit 280 feet (90 m) long, 100 feet (30 m) wide, and 100 feet (30 m) deep, caused by lava meeting groundwater and producing a steam explosion 2,200 years ago. (Wikimedia Commons)

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve

Arco, Idaho
Gallstones

Urology Museum

Linthicum, Maryland

Mercer Caverns

Murphys, California

Balmy Alley Murals

San Francisco, California
"Anti-Saloon League San Francisco Est. 1920" A sign seen outside Bourbon & Branch.

Bourbon & Branch

San Francisco, California

Touro Synagogue

Newport, Rhode Island
Paxton Gate Exterior

Paxton Gate

San Francisco, California

Somerset Bridge

Bermuda
The little tunnel is unexpectedly full of concrete stalagtites

Alvord Lake Bridge

San Francisco, California
Nancy Brown Peace Carillon.

Nancy Brown Peace Carillon

Detroit, Michigan

Lake Shore Inn

California City, California

1906 Earthquake Fence

Point Reyes National Seashore, California

The Bronze Fonz

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(Cabaret Mechanical Theatre)

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

London, England

California City: The Unbuilt Suburb

California City, California
Inside of the market. (Ratto's Market & Deli)

Ratto's Market & Deli

Oakland, California

Romano Gabriel Wooden Sculpture Garden

Eureka, California
View from the street

Defenestration

San Francisco, California
An exterior shot of the Carson Mansion.

The Carson Mansion

Eureka, California

Pacific Pinball Museum

Alameda, California

Foster's Big Horn

Rio Vista, California

Standing wave at Habitat '67, Montreal

Montreal, Canada
Gold Rush Steakhouse at the Madonna Inn

Madonna Inn

San Luis Obispo, California

Cueva Ventana

Puerto Rico
Photo of one of the lions from J.H. Patterson's book "The Man-eaters of Tsavo", 1907

Tsavo Man Eaters

Chicago, Illinois
Smooth glass pieces layer the beach (Flickr/mihradio)

Glass Beach

Fort Bragg, California
Rick Prelinger at the Prelinger Library

Prelinger Library

San Francisco, California

Leaning Tower of Niles

Niles, Illinois

Crazy Horse Memorial

Crazy Horse, South Dakota

Patrick Amiot's Sonoma County Yard Art

Sebastopol, California
The crow's nest

The Crow's Nest at the Old Faithful Inn

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

San Luis Obispo's Bubblegum Alley

San Luis Obispo, California
(Wikimedia Commons)

Fern Canyon

Orick, California
One of the four mummies

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

San Jose, California

Cayuga Park

San Francisco, California

Zymoglyphic Museum

San Mateo, California
The top of the Space Needle exemplifies Googie architecture. (Wikimedia Commons)

Space Needle

Seattle, Washington

Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame

Seattle, Washington

Fremont Troll

Seattle, Washington
The Chandelier Tree in 2005.

Chandelier Tree

Leggett, California

Steam Clock Gastown Vancouver

Vancouver, Canada

Stanley Park

Vancouver, Canada

The Pirate Shop at 826 Valencia

San Francisco, California
Tehachapi Wind Farm

Tehachapi Wind Farm

Tehachapi, California
A tree takes over a gravestone

Unitarian Church Cemetery

Charleston, South Carolina

Stevenson Bridge

Winters, California

Albany Bulb

Berkeley, California

Urban Ore

Berkeley, California
Ottawa Jail Hostel. (Wikimedia Commons)

Ottawa Jail Hostel

Ottawa, Canada
Hall of Mosses Photos copyright of <a href="www.lilylandesphotography.com">lilylandesphotography.com</a>

Hall of Mosses

Forks, Washington

Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies

San Jose, California
Typical Boston gravestones showing the winged death head

Boston's Old Burying Grounds

Boston, Massachusetts
George Air Force Base. (Benedict Siegel/Atlas Obscura)

George Air Force Base

Victorville, California
Heinold’s First and Last Chance 2007. (Wikimedia Commons)

Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon

Oakland, California
Battery Spencer with with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background

Marin Headlands

Mill Valley, California

Musee Mecanique

San Francisco, California

The Rapid City Presidents

Rapid City, South Dakota

Chicago Temple

Chicago, Illinois

The Dorn Pyramid

San Luis Obispo, California

Old Faithful Geyser

Yellowstone, Wyoming

Patty Reed's Doll

Sacramento, California
View of the "books."

Kansas City Library's Giant Bookshelf

Kansas City, Missouri

Heidelberg Project

Detroit, Michigan

Galco's Soda Pop Stop

Los Angeles, California
Surveillance cameras at the entrance

The Boring Store at 826CHI

Chicago, Illinois

Eartha

Yarmouth, Maine
The menagerie is beautifully detailed and in wonderful repair following restoration

Golden Gate Park Vintage Carousel

San Francisco, California
A view of the lighthouse. (Wikimedia Commons)

Alcatraz Island - La Isla de los Alcatraces

San Francisco, California

Morning Glory Pool

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Wall Drug

Wall, South Dakota

Computer History Museum

Mountain View, California

Santa Cruz Mystery Spot

Santa Cruz, California
Cabazon Dinosaurs. Dinny the Dinosaur.

Cabazon Dinosaurs

Cabazon, California

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

New Haven, Connecticut

Court of Mysteries

Santa Cruz, California

Japanese Tea Garden

San Francisco, California
Echo Park Time Travel Mart.

The Echo Park Time Travel Mart

Los Angeles, California
A view underground

Seattle Underground

Seattle, Washington
Exterior of The Witch's House

Spadena House

Beverly Hills, California
Paul Revere House from the street

The Paul Revere House

Boston, Massachusettes
Civic Musical Road

Civic Musical Road

Lancaster, California

Uniroyal Giant Tire

Dearborn , Michigan

The American Visionary Art Museum

Baltimore, Maryland
Portals of the Past on Lloyd Lake

Portals of the Past

San Francisco, California

Sears Tower Glass Platform

Chicago, Illinois

Thornburg Village

Berkeley, California
Labyrinth in spring

Mazzariello Labyrinth

Orinda, California
View of south side of museum.

World's Largest Shuttlecocks

Kansas City, Missouri
Monks Mound at Cahokia.

Cahokia Mounds

Collinsville, Illinois

Giant Cow Head

Detroit, Michigan

Necromance

Los Angeles, California
Medical Ed. Photo by Annetta Black

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

Seattle, Washington
Entering Battle Mountain, Nevada.

Armpit of America

Battle Mountain, Nevada
Kinetic Steam Works. (Press Photo)

Kinetic Steam Works

Oakland, California
The entrance of the toad tunnel, starting at the post office parking lot. (Davis Wiki)

Davis Toad Tunnel

Davis, California

Eggheads

Davis, California
(gofloridagators/Flickr)

Preston Castle

Ione, California
GAR Building.

Castle in Downtown Detroit

Detroit, Michigan
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Hussaini Hanging Bridge

Upper Hunza, Pakistan
While among the ruins of Vonnegut's slaughterhouses, feel free to hide a pack of Pall Mall Unfiltered cigarettes in one of the crumbling stone walls. Don't worry, littering for the sake of literature is never a crime.

Slaughterhouse Five

Dresden, Germany

Sigiriya

Sigiriya, Sri Lanka

Hampi

India
Desert leading to the Tree of Life. (Harold Laudeus/Flickr)

Tree of Life

Bahrain
I have been to 115 places and want to visit 5 more!
Upper canyon. (Wikimedia Commons)

Antelope Canyon

Page, Arizona

Amargosa Opera House

Death Valley Junction, California
Estaciones de Luz by Mark Reeves, 1988. (Stella Hwang/Flickr)

Djerassi Ranch

Woodside, California

Goblin Valley State Park

Hanksville
(Derek A. Young/Flickr)

Turnip Rock

Port Austin, Michigan

Comstock Cemeteries

Virginia City, Nevada
syntarsus relative size

Dinosaur Footprints on the Otjihaenamaparero Farm

Otjihaenamaparero, Namibia
Northlandz valley. (leff/Flickr)

Northlandz

Flemington, New Jersey
A 1 in 20 year capture of the tubes with water, seeped in from the rising water table.

Undara Lava Tubes

Australia
The Edward James Garden. (Wikimedia Commons)

Las Pozas

Xilitla , Mexico
The concert hall

Postojna caves

Postojna, Slovenia

Somerset Bridge

Bermuda
Artist's impression of Bunce Island from the northwest, c. 1727. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bunce Island

Sierra Leone

Romano Gabriel Wooden Sculpture Garden

Eureka, California
Drawing of the wooden house where Czar Peter lived during his stay in Zaandam.

Czar Peter House

Zaandam, Netherlands
New installation: "Virtue, Vice, and Contraband: A History of Contraception in America"

Dittrick Medical Museum

Cleveland, Ohio

Cueva Ventana

Puerto Rico

Rundetårn

Copenhagen, Denmark
Vintage postcard view of the Old Man of the Dalles

Old Man of the Dalles

St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin

The Sculptures of M.T. Liggett

Mullinville, Kansas
Ventura Oil Refinery. (tunnelbug/Flickr)

Ventura Oil Refinery

Ventura, California
The main hydroelectric building.

Vucje Hydroelectric Plant

Vucje, Serbia
(Wikimedia Commons)

Shilin Stone Forest

China
(Wikimedia Commons)

Fern Canyon

Orick, California
Wildrose Charcoal Kilns. (matthigh/Flickr)

Wildrose Charcoal Kilns

California
History of Humanity

Felicity, California: Center of the World

Felicity, California
San Francisco Naval Shipyard. (chrisd2006/Flickr)

San Francisco Naval Shipyard

San Francisco, California
Old Idaho Penitentiary. (DieselDemon/Flickr)

Old Idaho State Penitentiary

Boise, Idaho
George Air Force Base. (Benedict Siegel/Atlas Obscura)

George Air Force Base

Victorville, California

Palace of wonders

Washington, District Of Columbia
(Gnurou/Flickr)

Hakone Open-Air Museum

Hakone, Japan
The type of plane that was found in the reservoir

Lower Otay Reservoir

San Diego, California
Abandoned sugar silos in 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)

Betteravia Sugar Plant

Betteravia, California

The Rapid City Presidents

Rapid City, South Dakota

Presidents Hall of Fame

Clermont, Florida

The Dorn Pyramid

San Luis Obispo, California

Puppentheater-Museum Berlin

Neukölln, Germany
Cast of Laetoli footprints Olduvai Gorge museum

Laetoli Footprints

Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
The Broken Kilometer

Broken Kilometer

New York City, New York

Computer History Museum

Mountain View, California
(Wikimedia Commons)

Great Banyan Tree

Howrah, India
Main entrance to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas. The statue is of George Erath, Texas Ranger and surveyor of the Waco townsite. (Wikimedia Commons)

Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum

Waco, Texas

Musée de la Contrefaçon

Paris, France
Richmond Shipyards. (kedearing/Flickr)

Richmond Shipyards

Richmond, California

Eggheads

Davis, California
(gofloridagators/Flickr)

Preston Castle

Ione, California
I have been to 115 places and want to visit 5 more!
Upper canyon. (Wikimedia Commons)

Antelope Canyon

Page, Arizona
Estaciones de Luz by Mark Reeves, 1988. (Stella Hwang/Flickr)

Djerassi Ranch

Woodside, California

Goblin Valley State Park

Hanksville
(Derek A. Young/Flickr)

Turnip Rock

Port Austin, Michigan

Somerset Bridge

Bermuda
Artist's impression of Bunce Island from the northwest, c. 1727. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bunce Island

Sierra Leone

Cueva Ventana

Puerto Rico

The Sculptures of M.T. Liggett

Mullinville, Kansas
(Wikimedia Commons)

Shilin Stone Forest

China
(Wikimedia Commons)

Fern Canyon

Orick, California
Wildrose Charcoal Kilns. (matthigh/Flickr)

Wildrose Charcoal Kilns

California
History of Humanity

Felicity, California: Center of the World

Felicity, California
Old Idaho Penitentiary. (DieselDemon/Flickr)

Old Idaho State Penitentiary

Boise, Idaho
George Air Force Base. (Benedict Siegel/Atlas Obscura)

George Air Force Base

Victorville, California
(Gnurou/Flickr)

Hakone Open-Air Museum

Hakone, Japan

The Rapid City Presidents

Rapid City, South Dakota
Cast of Laetoli footprints Olduvai Gorge museum

Laetoli Footprints

Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
(Wikimedia Commons)

Great Banyan Tree

Howrah, India
(gofloridagators/Flickr)

Preston Castle

Ione, California
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