Angus Young, lead guitarist for AC/DC, dropped out of this high school when he was 15. His signature "schoolboy outfit" is modeled after an Ashfield Boys High School uniform.

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Located at this location since 1965, the Explorers Club is a group of professionals dedicated to the advancement of field research.

Members of the group were the first explorers to the North Pole (Robert E. Peary & Matthew Henson in 1909), first to the South Pole (Roald Amundsen in 1911), first to the summit of Mt. Everest (Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay in 1953), and first to the surface of the Moon (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins in 1969).

Today, the off-world colony group known as Mars One hold regular meetings to plan for a proposed manned mission to Mars in 2025.

Source: New Yorker, April 25, 2014

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This studio in Hell's Kitchen, owned and operated by RZA (the Razor), is named after the Wu's debut album, Enter the 36 Chambers.

It's also the unfortunate location of the passing of Ol' Dirty Bastard, on November 13, 2004, from a drug overdose.

Eskimos, submarine operators and everyone else who liked rap jams still mourn his passing.

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Underneath the Civic Center in San Francisco is a windowless bunker of an exhibition hall called Brooks Hall.

Currently closed and used as storage, Brooks Hall was the location of the "Mother of All Demos."

On December 9, 1968, computer warlock Douglas Engelbart gave a demonstration at the Fall Joint Computer Conference at Brooks Hall.

For the first time in one computer system, Engelbart demonstrated almost all the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: multiple windows, hypertext, graphics, the computer mouse (which he helped invent), word processing, and several other systems.

After about 1,000 computer scientists gave Engelbart a standing ovation, the attendees went back to their own work, now more fully aware of the new paradigm of possibilities.

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Closed since the facade collapsed in 2007, Chumley's has been undergoing renovations for seven years. In early 2014, the classic tavern faced a new challenge- neighbors who are sick of unruly tourists flocking to the destination (NY Times article link here).

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