A Weirdness Travelogue: Henges, Tiles & Plaques

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

1. 02:42 - America's Stonehenge
2. 07:46 - A Hankering for Henges - replicas and homages of the famous monument
3. 10:23 - Manhattanhenge 
4. 11:23 - I'll Take Manhattan - The Portal of Paradise at St. John the Divine
5. 13:56 - Look Down, Look Down, Don't Look 'Em in the Eye - The Toynbee Tiles
6. 20:16 - Rock Me, Leedskalnin - Coral Castle
7. 29:07 - Frankly My Dear, I DO Give a Damn - weird fun in Atlanta
8. 30:35 - 54 Columns by Sol LeWitt (the Atlanta Stonehenge)
9. 32:02 - Making It Up in Our Secret World - Kcymaerxthaere by "geographer at large" Eames Demetrios
10. 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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