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Spindle

Appeared on this planet in 1973. Learned the peculiar feeling of drying out her tongue while riding on the back of her Father's motorcycle as a child. Started experimenting with color at a young age. Natural tendency to delight in the absurd. Goes fast.

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Places edited in Fort Collins, Colorado

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Places added to Anaheim, California

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Fort Collins, Colorado

Swetsville Zoo

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

browne86

Added by browne86

Denver, Colorado

Blue Mustang

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

ronin

Estes Park, Colorado

The Stanley Hotel

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

nbj914

Added by nbj914

Crestline, California

Mozumdar Temple

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

kcmick

Added by kcmick

Pasadena, California

The Bubble House

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

Calipatria, California

Salvation Mountain

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Added by mbison

Mecca, California

Salton Sea

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Rebekah Otto

Added by Rebekah Otto

La Cañada Flintridge, California

Devil's Gate

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Pasadena, California

Colorado Street Bridge

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

Pasadena, California

The Gamble House

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

Pasadena, California

The Castle Green

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

Pasadena, California

Pasadena City Hall

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Pasadena, California

Jackie and Mack Robinson Memorial

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

Pasadena, California

The Old YWCA Building

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

Pasadena, California

Gold Bug

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Los Angeles, California

Watts Towers

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Added by Mary Marshall Fowler

San Jose, California

The Winchester Mystery House

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Added by mbison

Lemon Grove, California

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

San Francisco, California

Musée Mécanique

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Added by mbison

New Orleans, Louisiana

Holt Cemetery

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

Spindle

Added by Spindle

Abita Springs, Louisiana

Abita Mystery House

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

New Orleans, Louisiana

The Eiffel Tower of New Orleans

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

Added by kirkusdakarkus

New Orleans, Louisiana

Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

New Orleans, Louisiana

Metairie Cemetery

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black