Couple guilty of mistreatement after dead poodles found in freezer
A couple that stored dead poodles in their freezer was set to be sentenced for criminal mistreatment and animal neglect Monday.
Who Gets The Spaceship?
Assuming that nothing else goes awry, America will have four Space Shuttles to mothball in 2010. Who will get them as tourist attractions? One will end up at the Smithsonian, one at the Kennedy Space Center, and probably one in some politically-powerful state like California or Texas. That leaves one for everyone […]
Sleep in a Caboose, Titusville, PA
Feature: Cabooses permanently parked along some old tracks provide a novel sleeping experience, if you haven’t been to America’s other caboose motels. …
The Black Hole: Atomic Surplus Store, Los Alamos, NM
Feature: A store of junk castoffs from the nuclear weapons industry. …
Charlie Vanishes From Del Monte And Charleston
Earlier this week, the Del Monte corporation announced that it was dumping Starkist tuna — and its spokesfish Charlie — blaming it on “highly sensitive price elasticity.” Then, only hours later in Charleston, Oregon, a 12-foot-tall chainsaw sculpture of Charlie disappeared. Charlie stood on the main road, at the end of the only […]
Hi Jolly Exhibit and Human Leg Bone, Fort Irwin, CA
Feature: US Army camel driver and other unique exhibits at the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment Museum. …
New Orleans Betting On Bugs
You have to admire The Big Easy’s chutzpah. In the heat of summer the city is unveiling its first big tourist attraction since Hurricane Katrina smashed the city in 2005. And it’s about bugs. The Insectarium, which opens tomorrow, calls itself “the largest freestanding museum in the United States dedicated to insects.” […]
Miles the Monster, Dover, DE
Feature: Raceway mascot, a towering concrete golem, looks pissed. …
First Hilton Hotel, Cisco, TX
Feature: You can’t sleep here, but your can dream of the early days of hotel chains. …
No Water, No Water Ski
Tommy Bartlett’s Water Thrill Show on Lake Delton, in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, has a problem. The water is gone. All 267 acres of Lake Delton drained away yesterday via a 600-foot-wide breach through a highway embankment, caused by recent bad weather. According to the Chicago Tribune, Barlett’s will substitute a land-based show for the immediate future. Some […]
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