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Witch Museum Conjures Red Trail

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Downtown Salem, Massachusetts, is popular with tourists on foot, who often follow the town’s “Heritage Trail” marked by a red line painted on the pavement. Attractions along the red line can count on steady customers. The red line doesn’t stop at the Salem Witch Museum. Its owner, in fact, has accused the mayor of Salem [...]

California Dreamin’: World’s Largest Jesus

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Ted W. Arman is going to build a 200-foot-tall Jesus. Arman owns the mountaintop Iron Mountain Mine outside of Redding, California, and he plans to erect his mega-Messiah 3,500 feet above the Sacramento Valley. “I have the perfect location for it,” he told us. “You’ll see it from 100 miles away.”

New Orleans Betting On Bugs

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

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.” We spoke with [...]

Morons Vandalize Carhenge, Merit Olde-Timey Punishment

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Various reports out of Alliance, Nebraska, relate that Carhenge has recently been defaced by vandals with paint and “damage to metal panels on the cars.” Based on the typical pattern in defaced landmark cases, we would guess that the culprits are young, stupid, and not able to afford a suitable muscle car to vent off [...]

Who Gets The Spaceship?

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

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 else to scramble [...]

No Water, No Water Ski

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

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 [...]

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