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 >
The Wonder Cave – Rudolph, Wisconsin – Part Two
The passageways of Wonder Cave wind around a quarter of a mile, snaking through a mound of rocks weighing thousands of pounds, that were all hand-piled and put in place by parishioners, Father Wagner, and Edmund. All of what you see at Wonder Cave ... Read More >
The Wonder Cave – Rudolph, Wisconsin – Part One
The project that would become the Rudolph Grotto and the Wonder Cave began in 1928 when Father Wagner and his assistant, Edmund, decided to begin a labor of love. The project came to an end in 1983 when Edmund, simply too old to continue, decided to ... Read More >
Field of Dreams Movie Site – Dyersville, Iowa – Part One
In July of 1988, a corn field in Iowa would become a baseball field for a Hollywood movie. Usually, movie sets are either torn down or left to become dilapidated ruins after the actors leave; but, Field of Dreams still remains, and it is one of ... Read More >
Twister Movie Museum – Wakita, Oklahoma
Of all the items in Wakita's Twister Movie Museum, the most famous of all is the Dorothy I. If you remember, Dorothy was a machine that Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton's characters had designed to be able to better read a tornado – from the inside out. ... Read More >
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