I wouldn’t consider myself an urban explorer, especially compared to some photographers I know, but I’ve been to a few abandoned buildings and sites in my day. It’s really not that big of a deal…so you go through a hole in a fence or whatever? Those “No Trespassing” signs mean...
Ann Arbor is always on those lists of “Best Places to Live,” but when I went a few years ago I wasn’t that impressed. But now I have a reason to go back because I just found out the college town has a Dinnerware Museum. Started a few years ago...
Even though most of you young'ins live in a paperless world, that shouldn’t stop you from visiting the Degenhart Glass and Paperweight Museum in Columbus, Ohio. The former owner of the Crystal Art Glass Company and proclaimed “First Lady of Glass”, Elizabeth Degenhart, bequeathed over a thousand paperweights, 55 factory...
Once upon a time I told you about Zhang Huan’s Ash Jesus and Ash Buddha statues and the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum, so how about a religious-themed public park in Laos* that contains over 200 Hindu and Buddhist statues? Open since 1958, Buddha Park was created by a...
Apr 14, 2015 was the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, which means you’ve probably been bombarded with endless articles and links about the event. Well, let me add my own two cents. I once told you about how I’ve visited many Lincoln-related sites over the years from the village...
I don’t know how many of you people watch (or read) Game of Thrones. Well, some of you should know Daenerys Targaryen (or is it Khalessi…and while you’re at it name the 5,000 other characters for me too) is the Mother of All Dragons or something. If she invades Westeros...
Believe it or not, you are not the center of the world. That title belongs to the the town of Felicity in California. Just west of Yuma in the Sonoran Desert (one of the hottest and driest places in the U.S.), Mayor Jacques-Andre Istel (seen above in the middle photo)...
Distracted drivers going north on I-17 from Phoenix to Flagstaff might notice a large Christmas tree in the middle of the desert…you know, that dry and barren area of land where it’s not cold with freezing rain like most of the United States right now. Located in the middle of...
On this date in 1850 American President Zachary Taylor died days after consuming a large amount of iced water, cold milk, green apples and cherries. Was it gastroenteritis? A bad case of diarrhea (I hear laughter over the interwebs)? Was his food poisoned with arsenic? Did the Mexicans finally get...
I didn’t intend for this to be Presidents Week, but it just sort of happened, so let’s finish this freakin’ thing! Believe it or not, there is an actual Presidents Museum in a high school in San Diego. Yeah, talk about random. Started by one of the history teachers, Jim...
For whatever reason, between the years of 1964 and 1966, there were two television shows that featured comical Gothic horror-movie-type families living in old scary-looking mansions who were trying to adapt with their mainstream suburban communities: The Munsters and The Addams Family. But the two shows were quite different in...
In Montgomery, Alabama, a beautiful house that F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in for just six months between 1931-32 is now a museum. The house was saved from demolition in 1986. In 1999 it became the Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, which is divided into four main areas covering...
