Kymerica
The historical markers of an alternative universe
Kymaerica, the land referred to as America in our world, is just a part of Kcymaerxthaere, a parallel universe, described by its website as “a global work of three dimensional storytelling.”
Eames Demetrios, the “Geographer-At-Large” of Kymaerica has erected bronze plaques throughout America (and many other countries) dedicated to historical sites of Kymaerica. You can also visit the Embassy Row of the Parisian Diaspora in Paris, Illinois. (You probably didn’t know that, in Kymaerica at least, the town you call “Paris” was settled by the Parisian Diaspora.) In this alternative history, there was a Civil War between Northern and Southern California; the Samurai colonized Santa Barbara.
In recent years, he has taken the project around the world. A large permanent installation in Australia is dedicated to one of the creation myths of Kymaerica. In India a group of schoolchildren drew what they imagined one of the Kymaerican myths should look like. Their images were then engraved in stone and set into the ground.
You can track new spottings of Kcymaerxthaere at the Kymerica blog: http://kymaericablog.com/
Read more about Kymerica on Atlas Obscura…
Category: Strange Statues, Relics and Reliquaries, Lost Tribes, Outsider Architecture
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Edited by: M Rebekah Otto, Dylan