A Preview
"You started on a lawn made out of a burned city and finished at a war memorial that lost its landmark status for getting a new interior. Six things along the way were mine. Let's sort them out. Start with the ones people refuse to believe. The computer that ran Buckingham Fountain from Atlanta, Georgia, for most of a decade. Real. Fully documented."
Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.
The Reveal
This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.
Tour Stops
Follow the full Museum Campus: Landfill of Dreams route.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Buckingham Fountain
- 3 Grant Park — The Fight to Keep It Empty
- 4 The Field Museum — A Greek Temple on Landfill
- 5 Sue and the Lions of Tsavo
- 6 Shedd Aquarium — They Shipped the Ocean
- 7 Solidarity Drive
- 8 Adler Planetarium — The First Sky in the Hemisphere
- 9 Northerly Island — The Airport That Was Erased Overnight
- 10 The Balbo Monument
- 11 Soldier Field
- 12 The Reveal
Hear the full story at The Reveal
This is just one of 12 stops on the Museum Campus: Landfill of Dreams tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.
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