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 >
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 >
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