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Stone Faces:

• Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Great Stone Face"
• A legend of the Old Man of the Mountain
• The story of Lincoln Rock
• Megalithic Heads - standing stones with vague faces
• The Skeptic's Dictionary - Pareidolia - seeing images in the midst of chaos

Postcard Collections:

• Deltiology.org - Postcard exhibitions on the web
• Postcard collectors list-serv FAQ
• Tacky Postcard Archive - tacky cards you can e-mail
• Drive-Thru Tree Postcards

The Mississippi River:

• Henry Bosse's beautiful river photos on display at Ramsey County Historical Center
• Old Man River - The Riverview Times
• The Mud Island Mississippi River Walk, an open-air working model of the Mississippi River system
• Mississippi River Parkway Commission
• Pat Middleton's compendium of Mississippi-related stuff
• A cross-referenced history of the early days of St. Paul, Minnesota

Selected Online Museums:

• The Museum of Jurassic Technology
• The Squished Penny Museum
• The Museum of Modern Oddities
• The Institute of Official Cheer
• Belhaven Memorial Museum & Roadside America
• The Museum of Advertising Icons
• The Museum of Bad Art
• The Museum of Ephemeral Cultural Artifacts
• Graphion's Online Type Museum

Vernacular Artefacts:

• Visit the Grotto of the Redemption, West Bend, Iowa
• Fred Smith Concrete Park, Phillips, Wisconsin.
• A multimedia tour of Vollis Simpson's whirlygig environment.
• Bob Shamey's carved toothpicks and cherry pits plus more.
• How to make hobo art
• Folk art in bottles by S.D. Jones
• The Dunderberg Spiral Railway
• Phillip Buehler's photos of ruins
• Mildred's House of Signage

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