Every museum, cave, castle, and world's-largest-thing we've pulled over for: one post per place, rated, photographed, and mapped.
Yes! There’s a Parthenon in Tennessee Nashville likes to consider itself the “Athens of the South,” because of its emphasis on education, classical culture, and its many colleges. When Tennessee planned a big celebration in 1897 for the 100th anniversary of its statehood (the Tennessee Centennial Exposition), local leaders wanted a dramatic and symbolic centerpiece….
Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, became a pivotal battleground in the American civil rights movement in 1957. After the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus defied federal authority by deploying the Arkansas National Guard to…
About 5 miles or so north of downtown Bowling Green, Kentucky is a unique little fruit tree farm that’s been around long enough to become a local institution. The property is over 100 acres and they claim to have over 7,000 trees, comprised of apple, peach and cherries. To say you’ll find a lot of…
Tucked away in the rolling hills of Little Rock is a tiny slice of history – movie history that is! According to their website: A historic re-creation of an early 1830s water-powered grist mill, the Old Mill was built as a tribute to Arkansas pioneers. It is in the opening scenes of the classic movie…
Discovering a Modernist Gem in the Woods Tucked into the rolling hills just off Interstate 5 and Highway 18 in Federal Way, Washington, sits one of the most fascinating and overlooked architectural landmarks in the Pacific Northwest, the former Weyerhaeuser Corporate Headquarters. Built in 1971, this sprawling campus was designed to blur the line between…
The Pacific Bonsai Museum: Tiny Trees, Big Stories Tucked into a forest in Federal Way, Washington, the Pacific Bonsai Museum feels like you’ve wandered into an open-air art gallery, except the “sculptures” are living trees shaped over decades and even centuries. It’s calm, photogenic, and surprisingly rich in history. The “museum” is presented outdoors, with…
We took a trip to the Great Sand Dunes National Park, and it was amazing. Sand piled up at the base of a mountain range, left over from a long gone body of water, now a challenge to all who visit to make it to the top of the pile! Photo Gallery