13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DXVIII)

1. This statue hanging in the cellar of an abandoned castle in Italy Found & photographed by urban explorer Romeo Battini. No further information available on the location (trust me, I’ve looked). 2. Roscigno Vecchia, the Italian ghost town with only one inhabitant, Giuseppe Spagnuolo Roscigno has an old town (vecchia) and a new town.…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DXV)

1. There’s a 1000 year-old lost city beneath the St Louis suburbs Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbia city in what is now the United States. Its pyramids and earthen mounds stood near present-day East St. Louis, IL. Around the year 1050, it had 30,000 people, making it larger than London or Paris at the time.…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DXVI)

1. The Uncertain Future of America’s most beautiful soda fountain This summer, the 93-year-old Long Island Mom & Pop shop announced that it was going out of business. The statement said the cause was not COVID, but that the landlord is selling the building housing Hildebrandt’s and the new owners were moving in another direction.…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CDXCXXIII)

1. Grandparents model other people’s forgotten laundry Chang Wan-ji and Hsu Sho-er have become Instagram-famous for wearing outfits curated from the hundreds of items left behind by absent-minded customers at their laundromat in central Taiwan. ⁣Their 31-year-old grandson and unofficial stylist, Reef Chang, originally came up with the idea to create @wantshowasyoung on Instagram when business slowed…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CDXCXIX)

1. An Entire Old West Town for Sale in New Zealand A detailed replica of an 1860s Wyoming frontier town, set in the heart of a 900-acre ranch has gone up for sale with an asking price of $7.5 million. Found on Bloomberg. 2. French Revolutionary Frescoes Discovered behind the Walls of a Paris Apartment…

13 Things I Found on the Internet (Vol. CXXXII)

1. The Spaceship Palaces of Bolivia Freddy Mamani Silvestre is known as the “King of Andean Architecture,” and he has built dozens of houses boasting bright colors and patterned motifs that originate in indigenous art and architecture. His architectural work in the fast-developing city of El Alto is one element of broader cultural changes that have…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CDXCXVIII)

1. Academy Theater, Inglewood California, 1940 Still standing, screened movies from 1933 until it became a church in 1975. It got it’s name “The Academy Theater” because it was originally built to be the home and venue for the Academy Awards (the Oscars). But the plans changed. Photographed by Julius Shulman, found here. 2. ‘Sciopticon’…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CDXCXVII)

1. A 5 Dollar Jackson Pollock? Teri Horton bought a secondhand painting for $5 and learned that it could be an original Jackson Pollock. She spent years trying to prove it’s authenticity, and was offered $9 million, but refused to sell for any less than $50 million. She had a forensic scientist look at it…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CDXCXV)

Today’s edition was compiled with our hearts & minds vicariously marching with the Black Lives Matter Movement. 1. Fabulous in New York City, Summer of ’69 Vernon Merritt III/Time Life Pictures, found on Pinterest. 2. Where the term “Dreadlocks” came from The term “dreadlocks” comes from a movement of guerrilla warriors who vowed not to…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CDXCXIII)

1. A 1962 Italian Magazine showing how the world would look in 2022 Found on Mildly Interesting. 2. An Open-Air Museum of Abandoned Soviet Trains In a railway deadlock surrounded by a dense forest, there are decommissioned locomotives and tractors… a strategic reserve in case of war… some locomotives are in relatively good condition, with…