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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 door would remain intact. This door now leads …
The Subterranean Castle – Shawnee County, Kansas – Part OneRead More
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 settlers on Saba are considered to be the Ciboney peoples around 1175 BC. …
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 humble beginnings, music artists recorded their hits with Stax in …
Stax Records – Museum of Soul Music – Memphis, TennesseeRead More
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 the Sheriff’s Department in San Diego County. In 2014, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department …
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 (Independence Day), partly because it made storm chasing a sexy career. It …
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 was built by imagination – they had no blueprint or amazing …
