A stone gentleman in Tallinn with his lorgnette raised at a window, the best harbour view in Hong Kong on a ferry-terminal roof, the colours of an Ozu film. The interesting part was already in front of you.
The last of William Penn's public stairways to the Delaware
→ blog.phillyhistory.org
A painted boy sticking out his tongue at a door the painter never asked for
→ atlasobscura.com
Eighty-odd palm-sized bronzes hiding in a Ukrainian old town
→ atlasobscura.com
Gruber on how each Circuit Court chooses its typeface
→ daringfireball.net
Hidden flight simulator inside Google Earth's web app
→ earth.google.com
A tiny 1778 aqueduct hiding in Madrid's largest park
→ atlasobscura.com
Belgium's only pyramid points at a castle that is no longer there
→ atlasobscura.com
A footpath slung between the girders of a Swiss railway viaduct
→ atlasobscura.com
A suburban Madrid park where Pluto is still a planet
→ atlasobscura.com
A wigged stone gentleman on Pikk Street, lorgnette still raised at the window across the way
→ atlasobscura.com
A bronze horse balanced on one hoof, six metres up, in the middle of Madrid
→ atlasobscura.com
A 17,000-word Super Metroid guide, fully justified in monospace by rewriting every line
→ unsung.aresluna.org
Hong Kong's best harbour view is on the roof of the terminal everyone leaves from
→ atlasobscura.com
An atlas of every street you have ever walked — and the ones you never have
→ takeallroads.com
Eleven walks around one city block, each with a different expert
→ themarginalian.org
Every Frame a Painting returns to explain how Ozu learned colour
→ youtube.com
Every solid background color classic operating systems ever shipped, with the hex
→ desktopcolors.com