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Valley Relics Museum. / 34.21222°N 118.50083°W / 34.21222; -118.50083. Valley Relics Museum is a museum located in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. The LA Weekly named the Valley Relics Museum one of its 2017 winners of "Best Of L.A.: Arts & Entertainment". [1] Founded in 2013 by Tommy Gelinas, Valley Relics Museum's collection ...
She likened Williams’ never-ending collection of Valley mementos to the work of Antoni Gaudí, the Barcelona architect known for undertaking construction on a Barcelona cathedral in 1882.
Relics are an important aspect of some forms of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, shamanism, and many other religions. Relic derives from the Latin reliquiae, meaning "remains", and a form of the Latin verb relinquere, to "leave behind, or abandon". A reliquary is a shrine that houses one or more religious relics.
Tail o’ the Pup is an iconic Los Angeles, California hot dog stand actually shaped like a hot dog. Built in 1946, the small, walk-up stand has been noted as a prime example of "programmatic" or "mimetic" [1] novelty architecture. It was one of the last surviving mid-20th century buildings that were built in the shapes of the products they sold.
The Burro Flats site is a painted cave site located near Burro Flats, in the Simi Hills of eastern Ventura County, California, United States. The Chumash-style "main panel" and the surrounding 25-acres were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, with a boundary decrease in 2020. The main panel includes dozens of pictographs ...
Museum of Modern Mythology. Coordinates: 37.7863°N 122.40174°W. The Museum of Modern Mythology was a museum of pop culture brands located in San Francisco, California. The museum opened in 1982, and closed in 1989 after its building was damaged beyond repair in the Loma Prieta earthquake .
The Valle dei Templi ( Italian: [ˈvalle dei ˈtɛmpli]; Sicilian: Vaddi di li Tempri ), or Valley of the Temples, is an archaeological site in Agrigento ( ancient Greek: Ακραγας, Akragas ), Sicily. It is one of the most outstanding examples of ancient Greek art and architecture of Magna Graecia, [1] and is one of the main attractions of ...
Museum of Appalachia. The Museum of Appalachia, located in Norris, Tennessee, 20 miles (32 km) north of Knoxville, is a living history museum that interprets the pioneer and early 20th-century period of the Southern Appalachian region of the United States. Recently named an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum is a collection of ...