The sheer detail incorporated on the wall of memories is incredible. One of the walls tells the history of aviation in France. In fact, the information is in such detail, that no museum on aviation actually located in France could give you a better ... Read More >
Official Center of the World – Felicity, California – Part Two
Inside the pink granite, mirrored pyramid is The Official Center of the World, marked by a dot on a bronze plaque set into the floor of the pyramid. A special ceremony takes place whenever visitors place a toe on this spot. An official for the town ... Read More >
Official Center of the World – Felicity, California – Part One
Official Center of the World – Felicity, California – Part One - In case you were wondering, the official center of the world is located in Felicity, California. At least that is the claim of the mayor, Jacques-Andre Istel, who built a town here ... Read More >
Wigwam Village #7 – Rialto, California
The Wigwam Village Motel franchise was the brainchild of Frank Redford. The original Wigwam Villages were built in Kentucky, and by the time he got to number seven in the late 40s, his design was flawless. In the center, a large teepee stood as the ... Read More >
The Subterranean Castle – Shawnee County, Kansas – Part Two
Just off the north end of the launching bay, at the opposite side from the flame pit is a tunnel made of a combination of steel and concrete. The tunnel is about 120-feet-long and leads to what used to be the mission control center, the part of this ... Read More >
The Subterranean Castle – Shawnee County, Kansas – Part One
It only took 25 years, but Mr. Ed Peden finally opened his "garage" door. The door weighs in at a whopping 47 tons. Behind that door was an Atlas missile. The door had been designed in the hopes that, should there ever be a nuclear explosion, the ... Read More >
The Bottom, Saba – Caribbean – Part One
The birth of Saba island was surely a tumultuous one. It is estimated that around 500,000 years BC, Saba was formed at the top of a soon-to-be-active volcano. Today, the volcano is dormant, having not erupted more nearly 5,000 years. The first ... Read More >
Stax Records – Museum of Soul Music – Memphis, Tennessee
Stax Records may be dead and gone, but soul music is alive and kicking – and on display in downtown Memphis, a small but welcomed miracle in a city that needed one. Stax Records started out on the tiniest of shoestring budgets. Because of its ... Read More >
Sheriff’s Museum – San Diego, California
The infamous Heaven's Gate suicides in 1997 prompted several memorials and a couple of museums showcasing this cult's beliefs and subsequent mass suicides in a rental house. One exhibit was housed at the Museum of Death in Hollywood; the other, at ... Read More >
Twister (The Movie) Museum – Wakita, Oklahoma
Wakita, Oklahoma, starred as itself in the movie Twister (1998), as a town ravaged by a voracious tornado. The film starred Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, and many other A-List actors. It came in just behind the number one highest grossing film that year ... Read More >
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