You may also be interested in the documentary film called Resurrect Dead about the Toynbee tiles. Toynbee Tiles Lyrics: Sweet dreams, I'll see you in the morning / All we need is a few hours sleep / And tomorrow, we'll keep looking for clues / To the riddles spelled out in our soup / There's a. Philly is the epicenter of Toynbee tiles, and one photographer and researcher has gone through the painstaking effort of mapping them all out. Many of the tiles are still around today for you to discover. These mysterious tiles appear embedded into rads all over the world The greatest concentration is in Philadelphia where I live. Apparently they are all over the Eastern US. Justin Duerr one of the world’s foremost Toynbee enthusiasts, recalls a scene, early one winter morning in Philadelphia. Yet, even without solution, the message, the idea, it draws people. Then years later, I noticed them in New York City. As you can see, the Toynbee Tile is a veritable Pandora’s Box of loose connections and vague similarities an endless puzzle, without a solution. I’d cross an intersection and find a tile beneath my feet. I started noticing these tiles around Philly when I was a kid in the ’80s and ’90s. They carry the artist’s ideas about humanity’s possible future where humans can be reborn on Jupiter in a heavenly sort of afterlife. How did they get installed? Not really sure. What are they? They are colorful and intricate tiles placed in streets all over Philadelphia. The first photographs of them were in the 1980’s so I am a latecomer to these mysterious plaques. I was taken aback as I have walked that strip thousands of times in my life and have never noticed it, despite. Today on my walk to the post office I noticed a Toynbee tile, in the middle of the southbound lane on Spadina, just to the south of the south side east-west crosswalk. Toynbee Tiles are an enigma, a decades-old mystery that seems to be the work of one anonymous artist whose original goal was to start a human colony on Jupiter. So last Sunday afternoon, Steve and went to look for them. Chinatown resident and conspiracy realist here.