A cash machine dispensing U.S. dollars on the Antarctic ice, serviced once every two years; Pokémon Emerald running natively on a six-dollar microcontroller; Hitchcock’s entire bird soundtrack performed on a 1930s electronic instrument; and a lotus-shaped dome poured in concrete over a flattened Skopje.
A Game Boy emulator that plays at about 30 fps on a 1.54-inch e-paper screen
→ github.com
A cast-iron Parsi philanthropist on a pillar, ringed by mermaid fountains in the middle of a Mumbai junction
→ en.wikipedia.org
A 6-by-3-foot utility box that may be the smallest performance space anywhere
→ atlasobscura.com
A bright pink container cafe tucked inside a Strip park
→ atlasobscura.com
A 16th-century Korean admiral's memorial in a Virginia strip-mall parking lot
→ atlasobscura.com
Wells Fargo flies a technician to Antarctica every two years
→ atlasobscura.com
Pokémon Emerald recompiled to run natively on a $6 microcontroller
→ github.com
Every bird in Hitchcock's The Birds is an electronic instrument
→ openculture.com
A lotus-shaped brutalist dome built for rebirth, gutted by fire
→ atlasobscura.com