Installed in 1998, it's the only carillon that the public are invited to play. Three days a week, the public are invited to play from the 100 song options on hand for the bells. #Michigan #BigInstruments #Carillon

A carillon is an assembly of bells that are played using a keyboard, usually only accessible to trained carillonists. However, Ann Arbor Michigan's Kerrytown Chime is accessible to all.

The astronauts at the site operate as if they were on the red planet, including wearing space suit simulators whenever they leave the habitat. The station is the second of four planned project sites by the Mars Institute and SETI, following the Haughton Impact Crater station in Canada. #Utah #Space

In the desert outside of Hanksville, Utah is what might appear to the unknowing to be a movie set. The Mars Desert Research Station is a test bed for possible manned missions to Mars, where scientists test possible field procedures, habitat design, and technologies for a Mars mission.

In the woods among the Rangeley Lakes Trails in Maine are a number of small homes built into the trees for gnomes. A local carpenter built the homes as a way to encourage the local kids to get out and explore the trails, and local artists loaned their skill to make small ceramic gnomes. #Maine #Art

One of the windows survives from the original chapel, and the entryway to the church features two grasshoppers. #Minnesota #History #SmallChurches #Locusts

Around that time, the grasshoppers flew away, and didn't return the following year. The species became extinct less than 30 years later. The original chapel was destroyed by tornado in 1894, and the present structure was built to replace it in 1952.

The Governor called fror a statewide day of prayer in April 1877, but the grasshoppers continued. A member of the Cold Spring, MN clergy suggested his parishioners petition the Virgin Mary, and they agreed, starting construction on the Assumption Chapel that July.

In 1893, the midwest was ravaged by Rocky Mountain locusts. For the residents of Cold Spring, Minnesota, what should have been a once-a-decade incident became a recurring nightmare. They hit again in 1894, 1895, 1896, and 1896, destroying crops, wood, and even clothes.

Biologists successfully reanimated the 250 million year old bacterium by adding fresh nutrients and a new salt solution, demonstrating the remarkable capability for bacteria to hibernate and recover. #Kansas #Saltmines #Biology #AncientMicrobes

Inside the salt mine, scientists found a 250 million year old salt crystal with a hibernating bacterium inside a drop of seawater in 1998.

65 stories below ground in Hutchinson Kansas is Strataca, the underground salt museum. For comparison, this is 3 times deeper than the tallest building in Kansas, Wichita's Epic Center. The salt veins within the mine stretch from Kansas to New Mexico.

The building would become the birthplace of the National Negro Opera Company when its founder, Mary Cardwell Dawson, rented the third floor of the building. After languishing vacant for many years, the Queen Anne manor house is currently undergoing restoration. #Pennsylvania #Pittsburgh #Opera

In the 1920's prominent African American businessman William "Woogie" Harris bought a home in the Homewood district of Pittsburgh as a gathering place for African Americans. Over the years, many great names stayed at or frequented the house, including Duke Ellington, Cout Basie, & Roberto Clemente.

He was set free on the promise of returning the following day to pay the fine. Instead, he showed up with 20 men and proceeded to beat the sherriff and the deputy. The Pine Tree Riot became a symbol of American opposition to British oppression in the pre-Revolutionary period. #NH #USRevolution

Cutting down such trees could only be performed by landowners after approval from the government at the landowner's expense. This law was rarely upheld in New Hampshire until 1766. In 1772, the sheriff and deputy were sent to Ezbenezer Mudgett's sawmill to arrest him for violation of the law.

In 1772, Weare, New Hampshire was the site of a riot in opposition of UK tyranny. In the early 1700's, various colonial powers enacted laws preventing the cutting of white pine trees with diameters of greater than 12" (38cm) to preserve them for spars for British warships.

The monument was unveiled in October 2020, featuring a bust of the famous future captain. #Indiana #UnusualMonuments #DontTellTheTemporalInvestigators

Visitors to Bloomington, Indiana can encounter a monument that appears to violate the temporal prime directive. Within the town is a statue commemorating the town as the future birthplace of Kathryn Janeway, captain of the USS Voyager from Star Trek: Voyager.

Outside Lincoln Montana is a sculpture installation that puts art alongside nature in creative installations. Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild is a series of sculptural installations in the wilds of the valley, many of which are made of locally sourced materials. #Montana #Art #ArtInNature

The theater is a 1:55 scale replica, mounted in the wall of the Vancouver Hack Space, and is slowly filling with characters from film and TV. #BritishColumbia #Vancouver #Canada #IKnowItsNotTheUSButItsCool

Vancouver, BC has a recreation of the now-demolished Pantages theater. The 200-seat theater is slowly filling with patrons, but anyone wishing to catch a film will have to endure standing.

Inside a renovated mill building in Winsted, Connecticut is a massive five story high, 120 ft. (36.6m) long three dimensional mural. The mural is dedicated to the history of work in the United States, intended to cause visitors to reflect on the work performed all around them every day. #Connecticut

The stunning 50' (15m) tall sculpture of a Lakota woman standing on the plains features a quilt of blue and white panels that flutter in the wind and light up at night. #SouthDakota #Lakota #Art

Chamberlain, South Dakota is home to "Dignity of Earth and Sky": a large sculpture intended to highlight the perserverance of the Lakota people who have long called the Dakotas home.

In 2020, the cabinet was moved a few hundred feet to the west to make way for the construction on the connector, though the connector still hasn't been completed. #Vermont #ProtestArt #FileUnder

Residents of Burlington, Vermont have been waiting for the Southern Connector to link I-89 to downtown for over 60 years. In 2002, a local artist created a curious art piece, "File Under File Under So. C., Waiting for...", a 38-drawer file cabinet installed along the path of the connector.

This concession, intended to prevent the floor beams from rotting, gives the dance floor a unique give that some have described as a "floating" dance floor. Still remarkably true to its roots, the building appears almost completely the same as it did when it first opened. #Wisconsin #DancingOnAir

In Neillsville, WI, a prohibition-era dancing venue continues to serve the community. Opened in 1933, the Silver Dome is an early modernist design and features a unique structure: the stucture of the floor rests on concrete piers, allowing airflow underneath the floor.

The Big Bend Sentinel of Marfa Texas developed an innovative solution to keep the lights on: they've moved into a shuttered dive bar and renovated the space to be a newspaper/cafe/cocktail bar. Now locals can support local journalism and get a tipple at the same time. #Texas #Newspaper #Bar