I know it ain’t Friday yet, but who cares! Let’s have fun anyway!
These photographs of unexpected encounters all around the city were taken in the past few weeks.
Enjoy!
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I live in downtown San Diego and love to walk around with my camera! You can follow Cool San Diego Sights via Facebook or Twitter!
An enormous boulder dropped from the sky and crushed a car that was parked by the sidewalk on L Street!
I witnessed the strange, tragic aftermath with my own eyes, as I walked past Southwest Boulder & Stone in Chula Vista.
Because no one will believe me, I took several photographs!
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I live in downtown San Diego and love to walk around with my camera! You can follow Cool San Diego Sights via Facebook or Twitter!
Over the years, I’ve shared photographs of some really weird stuff!
Given how I just blogged about a yellow bison on a Golden Hill rooftop, and how I recently posted photos of that goofy Wienerschnitzel street art in Imperial Beach, I thought I’d revisit other examples of strange, weird, wonderfully bizarre stuff that have appeared on Cool San Diego Sights!
In addition to viewing artwork that’s highly unusual, by clicking the following links you’ll feast your eyeballs on crazy cosplay, bizarre cars, flamethrowing bagpipes, a cattle drive through downtown San Diego, and other wacky stuff!
Click the following links to see these oddities!
Architecture inspired by nature . . . and UFOs!
Strange, bizarre cars of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Cleverly designed furniture is surprising, playful art!
Amazing, fantastic, crazy cosplay everywhere!
Street musician plays flamethrower bagpipes!
Photos of cattle drive through downtown San Diego!
The fantastic, amazing Harper’s Topiary Garden!
A (strange) Method for Reaching Extreme Altitudes!
World’s most amazing car, displayed in San Diego!
Bart Club street art on a San Diego corner.
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The other day I was walking along the Embarcadero past Ruocco Park when I took this rather bizarre photograph.
What’s wrong with this picture?
If that fellow wearing orange is a huge soccer fan playing golf on an urban course that features five foot diameter holes, clearly nothing is wrong!
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Here’s another batch of odd photographs that might make you look twice!
I captured all of these images in the past couple weeks during walks around San Diego.
Some of these are so strange and mysterious even I’m perplexed!
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I live in downtown San Diego and love to walk around with my camera! You can follow Cool San Diego Sights via Facebook or Twitter!
The first thing that grabbed my attention during my walk this morning–other than the fog–was St. Joseph Cathedral had vanished!
The large cathedral seemed to have disappeared under an enormous striped circus tent!
They must have termites.
Now that’s one very peculiar sight you don’t see every day!
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I live in downtown San Diego and love to walk around with my camera! You can follow Cool San Diego Sights via Facebook or Twitter!
Three months ago I enjoyed a great summer hike at Marian Bear Memorial Park in San Clemente Canyon. See those photos here. Today I decided to return and perhaps experience some autumn color, now that it’s October.
My walk was wonderful, as you’ll see in my next blog post, but there was one corner of this semi-wild city park where I thought I’d stepped into a very weird nightmare or horror movie!
Just in time for Halloween, take a look at the coming creepy photos!
As I hiked down a side trail that approaches Genesee Avenue from the east, the trees grew old and dense, the space beneath them darkened, and I soon found myself walking where few seem to tread among weirdly twisted roots and branches.
Had I entered an ancient, evil forest in Middle Earth? Were ravenous, sinister creatures eyeing me? Would I momentarily encounter the Blair Witch?
Those blood-red hacks in one tree trunk was too creepy for me!
I looked over my shoulder, turned my feet about, and doing my utmost to appear unfazed (in case any eyes were watching), I promptly scooted back to the park’s main trail!
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I live in downtown San Diego and love to walk around with my camera! You can follow Cool San Diego Sights via Facebook or Twitter!
This afternoon I headed to PB to check out a very cool mural at Pacific Beach Elementary School. (I’ll blog about that shortly!)
After having a good look at the mural, I kept my camera out for what might be considered a slightly weird walk. I headed west toward the Pacific Ocean and eventually found myself approaching the grassy park overlooking Law Street Beach. I then turned south and followed the oceanfront boardwalk down to Crystal Pier.
Exactly how weird was this walk?
Well, honestly, this particular walk didn’t seem that weird to me. But if sunshine, a beach full of sunbathers, distant surf, passing bicyclists, skaters and walkers, and an ice cream vendor with a tinkling bell on his cart are considered weird, I’ll take it!
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I live in downtown San Diego and love to walk around with my camera! You can follow Cool San Diego Sights via Facebook or Twitter!
Occasionally during my walks around San Diego I stumble upon a mystery. Often there’s a solution to the mystery that I eventually discover; other more difficult mysteries remain unsolved.
It can be exciting to suddenly encounter the unknown!
Because it was too darn hot and muggy to be out walking today, and because I might not go walking for a few days, I thought we might travel back in time and review a variety of past mysteries. Several of these are still unsolved.
As always, if you know something that I don’t know, please leave a comment!
These mysteries still persist. Armchair detectives, get ready!
For the mystery of a vanished grave marker containing the name of an early San Diego character who was shot in the back, click here.
For the mystery of public art that few people see, that appears to be attributed to nobody in particular, click here.
For the mystery of old, faded signs on downtown San Diego buildings, click here.
For the mystery of musicians that were painted on downtown windows (and which have since vanished) click here!
The following mysteries were eventually solved!
For the mystery of an inexplicable lighthouse on an Old Town sidewalk, click here.
For the mystery of a fountain hidden in an almost never seen corner of Balboa Park, click here.
For the mystery of what seemed a forgotten Navy plaque on the Embarcadero, click here.
For the mystery of strange reflections on San Diego Bay, click here. (This mystery was my own photographic creation, but you might enjoy attempting to identify the reflections.)
For the infinite mystery contained in an ingenious invention that mimics the structure of the universe, click here and here.
And finally, for the mystery of a bloody crime scene that must be solved again and again, click here!
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I live in downtown San Diego and love to walk around with my camera! You can follow Cool San Diego Sights via Facebook or Twitter!
Do ghosts ride on a city’s restored streetcar? Can you say with complete certainty they don’t?
There’s one apparently crazy streetcar driver who likes to converse with ghosts. His unseen riders remember old times that the living have forgotten.
You can read this strange, emotionally charged story by clicking here!
