A place can be scenery or it can be an event. These six choose the second: parabolic mirrors that carry a whisper forty metres to whoever you walked up with, hedges clipped into enormous pouting faces, and a fuel tank that became a continent’s most recognizable landmark.
Parabolic mirrors set forty metres apart, so a whisper reaches whoever you walked up with
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Giant grey faces pouting and grinning out of clipped hedges above the Étretat cliffs
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A Piedmont house facade hand-tiled by its owner, one unrepeated design at a time
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A leaping orca turns Palmer Station's biggest fuel tank into Antarctica's most recognizable landmark
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A DC movie theater whose rooms are decorated like the films it screens
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Godzilla, Goku and Shin-chan standing life-sized on the pavement outside an office tower
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