Historic Treasures
M. Schettl Sales - Statues - Butte Des Morts - Oshkosh, Wisconsin -, WI
Ever wondered where all the giant attractions sprinkled across the midwest come from? M. Schettl Sales Inc has two sites full of over-sized kitsch. One warehouse and "park," easily visible off Hwy...
World\'s Largest Religious Wood Carving - Darien, IL
The National Shrine of St. Therese, located in suburban Chicago, has two very important distinctions. First, it is the home to the largest wood carving in the world, a depiction of the many stages of...
3,980 lb. bovine exhibited in the local historical museum - Baker,MT, MT
3,980 lb. bovine exhibited in the local historical museum
9/11 Memorial - Eagle Clutching Mangled I-Beam - Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, NJ
Rings of monuments -- of solemn remembrance and patriotic defiance -- radiate out from NYC's Ground Zero. These memorials, created in the commuter towns and rail stops where people never returned on...
Atomic City - Atomic City, Idaho, ID
Small, former nuclear boom town with a few Cold War photo ops.
Ax Murder House - Villisca, Iowa, IA
The 1912 maniac who killed the people in this house is still unknown, but that doesn't stop travelers from wanting to sleep over.
Beverly Hillbillies Car - Missouri, MO
Star exhibit of the Ozark-friendly Ralph Foster Museum.
Beverly Hillbillies Car - Missouri, MO
Star exhibit of the Ozark-friendly Ralph Foster Museum.
Biblewalk and Living Bible Museum - Mansfield, Ohio, OH
It's like walking through a wax Bible -- populated by Hollywood stars in disguise.
Biblewalk and Living Bible Museum - Mansfield, Ohio, OH
It's like walking through a wax Bible -- populated by Hollywood stars in disguise.
Bishop Castle - Rye - Beulah, CO, CO
This is an incredible structure. However, the builder, Jim Bishop was working and he went off on several screaming episodes against almost everything and was cursing loudly. I do not believe that...
Boston Molasses Flood Plaque - Boston, Massachusetts, MA
anuary 15, 1919. A horrible way to go: One minute you're loitering on a North End Boston street at lunchtime, enjoying an unseasonably warm day, and the next you're caught in a 40-ft. high tidal wave...
Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum - Jupiter, Florida, FL
It's hard to believe that Burt Reynolds has been a star for so long. As made clear at The Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum in Jupiter, he was a bridge between the stars of yester-yesteryear, like...
Chief Crazy Horse Memorial - Crazy Horse, South Dakota, SD
Chief Crazy Horse is crazy big. When we first saw this immense project, years ago, it was a ragged mountainside with a theoretical destiny set in the unknowable future. Now the sculpture has a giant...
Colonel Sanders - Louisville, Kentucky, KY
Fortunately for us, the Great Man on the Bucket didn't take his "11 secret herbs and spices" recipe to his grave...
Drake Well Museum - Titusville, Pennsylvania, PA
Perhaps this is a pilgrimage we should have made when gasoline was still below $2 a gallon.
But back then we took for granted the attractions along America's unofficial Oil Heritage Trail. These...
Drake Well Museum - Titusville, Pennsylvania, PA
Where Edwin Drake sparked America's first oil boom -- in Pennsylvania?
El Santuario de Chimayo Shrine - Chimayo, New Mexico, NM
Miraculous Catholic shrine in New Mexico. Many attest to the spiritual and physical curative powers of the sacred dirt, so don't take our "attitude" to heart...
Elvis Museum - Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, TN
he "world's largest private collection of Elvis memorabilia," has been a fixture in the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge tourist mecca since shortly after the King's demise. It began even earlier, in 1971,...
Fall of Saigon, Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles - Lexington, Nebraska, NE
Military might, along with a replica of a hasty retreat from Saigon, draws passersby off the interstate.
