Editorial Discoveries
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A Victorian House Opens Into a Maze of Impossible Rooms and Secret Passages
Meow Wolf’s original Santa Fe experience mixes narrative, installation, architecture and interactive environments inside a deliberately surreal world. — via meowwolf.com
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A 450-Metre Spiral of Rock Reaches Into Utah’s Great Salt Lake
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is built from basalt rock and earth on the shore of the Great Salt Lake, changing appearance with water level, salt and weather. — via holtsmithsonfoundation.org
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James Turrell Has Spent Decades Turning an Extinct Volcano Into a Naked-Eye Observatory
Roden Crater is a vast land-art project in Arizona that uses chambers, tunnels and openings to frame celestial events and the perception of light. — via rodencrater.com
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Four Hundred Stainless-Steel Poles Turn a New Mexico Plain Into an Artwork
Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field places a precise grid of metal poles across a remote landscape where daylight, weather and storms continually change the work. — via diaart.org
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Tokyo Built a Massive Walk-Through Archive of Harry Potter Sets and Effects
The Tokyo studio tour presents recreated sets, costumes, creatures and filmmaking techniques across a large dedicated experience. — via wbstudiotour.jp
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James Bond Has a Cinematic Installation Hidden Inside an Austrian Mountain
007 ELEMENTS is a purpose-built James Bond experience embedded into the summit of Gaislachkogl, mixing architecture, props and installations in a dramatic alpine setting. — via 007elements.com
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Studio Ghibli Built a Park Around Its Worlds Without Turning It Into a Normal Theme Park
Ghibli Park recreates environments and architectural details from Studio Ghibli films across themed areas designed more for exploration than roller-coaster spectacle. — via ghibli-park.jp
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The Surviving Full-Size Shark From Jaws Now Hangs Inside the Academy Museum
A surviving full-scale shark model associated with Jaws has become one of the Academy Museum’s most recognisable display objects. — via academymuseum.org
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One of Cinema’s Most Famous Cars Is a Stainless-Steel Time Machine
The DeLorean time machine turned a real production car into a dense stack of fictional technology, wires, vents and the instantly recognisable flux-capacitor mythology. — via petersen.org
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The Actual Great Hall, Diagon Alley and Hogwarts Model Can Be Visited Outside London
The studio tour preserves major sets, props, costumes and production techniques from the Harry Potter films in a permanent behind-the-scenes attraction. — via wbstudiotour.co.uk
