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Winter Solstice 2019

The Spiral Jetty

Double Negative’s north trench

Inside the Roden Crater

A Tour of Spectacular 1970s Art Made From the Landscape Itself

Eight places to witness the incredible ambition of the Southwest land art movement.

Including Sun Tunnels, The Spiral Jetty, Complex City, and Double Negative

Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast/Museum

Parking space D32, where the secret meetings between Bob Woodward and Mark “Deep Throat” Felt took place.

An example of a sheet of LSD.

The Villisca Axe Murder House

The Salsa Bar

The foot bridge where dead drops occurred.

33 Places Famous for the Scandals That Occurred There

Death, money, sex—it's all here.

Including Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast and Museum, Deep Throat Parking Garage, Wamego LSD Missile Silo, and Villisca Axe Murder House

Gravity Hill starting line.

Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0 by John Phillips

Rua do Amendoim.

Mystery Spot!!

12 Bewildering Hills Where Gravity Seems to Work in Reverse

Don't believe your eyes at these mystery spots.

Including Gravity Hill, Electric Brae Gravity Hill Illusion, Spook Hill, and Rua do Amendoim (Peanut Street)

Heart of Louis XVII

The marker for Chopin’s heart

Voltaire in marble resting atop his real, fleshy heart (as captured in 1924)

Heart Ex Votos

The inscription from a 1375 John Barbour poem translates to, “A noble heart can know no ease without freedom.”

An Unromantic Look at 10 Preserved, Disembodied Hearts

Where to find the heart relics of popes, princes, and at least one racehorse.

Including Heart of the Dauphin, Chopin's Heart , Heart of Pope Pius VI, and The Heart of Voltaire

The Giant Camera Obscura in 2014

Santa Monica Camera Obscura

Edinburgh’s oldest purpose built visitor attraction, The Camera Obscura on the Royal Mile

The Observatory

Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky

See the World the Old-Fashioned Way at These 7 Cameras Obscura

Where to explore the vestiges of the 19th-century camera obscura craze.

Including Camera Obscura & Holograph Collection, Mitchell Park, Santa Monica Camera Obscura, and Camera Obscura & World of Illusions

Peeling paint inside The Maples.

Zelda Fitzgerald’s Abandoned Sanatorium.

An ornate door

Inside the Pool Park Asylum

Abandoned statues on the garden grounds

18 Abandoned Psychiatric Hospitals, and Why They Were Left Behind

Explore the ghosts of mental-health history.

Including Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane, Zelda Fitzgerald's Abandoned Sanatorium, Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, and Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center

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