Make Cincinnati Weird!

Someone is planting bizarre messages on tiles embedded in the road surface. What the tiles are made of, who is placing them and how they get away with it — all of these questions remain unanswered. What is known is this: We are not alone. The mysterious tiles have been spotted in roads throughout the Western Hemisphere.

Photo courtesy of Alan P.

If you go to Fifth and Walnut streets or Sixth and Walnut streets, you will see, flush with the pavement in multi-colored stenciling, two tiles that declare, “Toynbee Idea in Movie 2001. Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter.” A third tile, at Main and Fourth streets, says, “Toynbee Idea in Kubrick’s 2001. Resurrect Dead in Planet Jupiter.”

More from CityBeat, Wikipedia, and Toynbee Tiles website (now archived on Wayback Machine).