August 18, 2021

A Weirdness Travelogue: Henges, Tiles & Plaques

42 minutes

EPISODE 39 | A Weirdness Travelogue: Henges, Tiles & Plaques

Mystery is all around us - we just need to seek it out. Here are a few offbeat and weird places in the US to go see: some henges, some tiles and some plaques.

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SECTIONS

02:42 - America's Stonehenge

07:46 - A Hankering for Henges - replicas and homages of the famous monument

10:23 - Manhattanhenge

11:23 - I'll Take Manhattan - The Portal of Paradise at St. John the Divine

13:56 - Look Down, Look Down, Don't Look 'Em in the Eye - The Toynbee Tiles

20:16 - Rock Me, Leedskalnin - Coral Castle

29:07 - Frankly My Dear, I DO Give a Damn - weird fun in Atlanta

30:35 - 54 Columns by Sol LeWitt (the Atlanta Stonehenge)

32:02 - Making It Up in Our Secret World - Kcymaerxthaere by "geographer at large" Eames Demetrios

35:52 - Don't Get Me Down - Roger Babson & the Gravity Research Foundation

Music by Fanette Ronjat

More on this stuff:

Atlas Obscura

Amusing Planet

Unusual Places

HostelWorld's 15 Strangest Monuments Around the World

America's Stonehenge

America's Stonehenge article in New England Today

Yankee Doodle Druid in Discover Magazine

Article on Mark Russo

Dupont Underground in Washington, D.C.

2015 Dupont Underground article in Smithsonian Magazine

Clonehenge - A blog about Stonehenge Replicas. We kid you not.

BBC article on Manhattanhenge

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC

Portal of Paradise #MuseumFromHome videos

A New York Apocalypse Hidden in Plain Sight

Toynbee Tiles on Atlas Obscura

Toynbee Tiles article about Pittsburgh

Toynbee Idea website

Resurrect Dead - The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles documentary

Coral Castle website

Coral Castle article on LiveScience

Billy Idol - Sweet Sixteen video

Mr. Can't is Dead: The Story of the Coral Castle by Orval M. Irwin

Atlanta Beltline

Elvis Shrine Vault

Robert C. Williams Paper Museum

Switchyards Ping Pong Stadium

The Switchyards

SkyView Atlanta

Murder Kroger on Atlas Obscura

Kroger store tries to shake off ‘murder’ moniker 2014 radio program

A journey to Atlanta’s exquisitely weird Doll’s Head Trail photo essay on Atlanta Curbed

Doll's Head Trail article on Rails to Trails

CDC Museum

Tiny Doors Atlanta

Crypt of Civilization

Center for Puppetry Arts

World of Coca-Cola

CNN Center

The King Center

Gunshow Restaurant

Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q

An Eater's Guide to Atlanta

Best BBQ in Atlanta

Best Bars in Atlanta in Time Out

Atlanta traffic among worst in the world, study finds article

54 Columns on Artwork Archive

Westside Provisions District

Adalanta Desert plaque

Kcymaerxthaere

Kcymaerxthaere article on BBC Travel

Gravity Research Foundation Monument

Babson Boulders article

A Creepy Ghost Town In Massachusetts, Dogtown Is The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of

How One Man Waged War Against Gravity in Popular Science

Roger Babson: The Man Who Tried To Fight Gravity on Amusing Planet

Gravity Research Foundation website

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