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. The Dorothy I is the one that they …
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American House Cat Museum – Sylva, North Carolina
It’s not just for the “crazy cat lady”. In fact, your preconception of some old ladies sipping on hot tea and crumpets will crumble when you enter these doors. So why visit? Maybe you simply have a love of cats, like Dr. Harold Sims of Sylva – but you won’t find any living cats here. …
The Oz Museum – Wamego, Kansas – Part Two
After stepping through the screen door into Munchkin Land, many people are blown away as to how a movie from 1939 could have such an extensive list of memorabilia. What many people don’t realize is that The Wizard of Oz was actually a book long before it was a movie. It has been said that …
The Oz Museum – Wamego, Kansas – Part One
One of the world’s most beloved and popular movies, The Wizard of Oz, illustrates a young girl and her band of misfits and they traverse the Yellow Brick Road in search of assistance from a great and powerful wizard. In the end, this young girl, Dorothy, decides to return to her home rather than stay …
Portrait of Henry Wells – Carrollton, Alabama
Towns sometimes go to great lengths to immortalize people, places, or things that are somehow connected to them. Sometimes, they even build memorial sculptures or monuments. But there is no building in the world as unforgettable as, yep – the Pickens County Courthouse. The Pickens County Courthouse has no monuments. Instead, there is a photo …
Sri Mariamman Temple – Chinatown, Singapore
In downtown Chinatown, Sri Mariamman Temple beckons with its towering, ornamental entrance, a staple in the lives of Hindus and native Singaporeans alike. Mr. Pillai, a British East India Company clerk, originally thought of the idea to build a temple in what would become Chinatown. He accompanied Singapore’s founder, Sir Raffles, on what was Sir …