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Discover Carhenge Pop Culture Roadside Attraction in Nebraska

The free Carhenge pop culture roadside attraction in Nebraska is a replica of England’s Stonehenge built from same sized vintage cars painted grey.

Wabasha Street Caves & their Prohibition Secrets — Saint Paul, MN

by Linda Aksomitis

Saint Paul, Minnesota, history includes Prohibition gangsters and speakeasies including the Wabasha Street Caves. See “Castle Royal” or take a driving tour.

The Time Voyager in Columbia, Missouri — #TriviaTuesday

by Linda Aksomitis

Time travel–the idea baits us, tantalizes our imaginations, and hooks us on the possibilities. While authors spun yarns about time travel before H.G. Wells, his book, The Time Machine, and its popularity, made dreaming about traveling around in time something...

Alabama’s Beautiful Little Stone Church Built Around a Rock

by Linda Aksomitis

Imagine, if you can, an enormous sandstone rock plopped down in a forest–and someone deciding to build it into a pulpit and wrap a stone church around it. Sound a little crazy? Maybe. Milford Howard may not have been crazy, but he sure wasn’t an ordinary...

How Many of the World’s Strangest Museums have You Visited?

by Linda Aksomitis

Museums used to get a bad rap as being full of dusty pieces of antiquity–stuff kids needed to see to fulfill the requirements of 5th and 6th grade social studies programs. Not any more! Today’s museums are as diverse as snowflakes. Do you know when the...

The Broadway Diner in Columbia, Missouri, is a Valentine Diner–What’s that?

by Linda Aksomitis

The Broadway Diner in Columbia, Missouri, is famous for its made-from-scratch food–ask any of the nearby University of Columbia students, many of whom are now spread out over the whole USA, just how good it was to sit down to some of mom’s home cooking....