Closing

Governor Uses Convention Cover To Ax Lincoln Cabin

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Strange news from the Land of Lincoln. The Arlington Heights Daily Herald reported that Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, a democrat, flew home on the climactic day of the Democratic National Convention. And then he immediately cut hundreds of state jobs and closed nearly two dozen historic sites and parks — including the Lincoln [...]

Summer Sale! Buy Your Own Museum!

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

It’s not often that we have a chance to buy pieces of a beloved roadside attraction. It’s rarer still that we have the opportunity to buy not only the attraction itself, but the entire town that surrounded it.
That’s the case, however, with the Million Dollar Museum and its accompanying family-owned mini-town, White’s City, New [...]

Star Trek The Experience To Close

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

We’ll spare you the “beam me up” and “live long and prosper” clichés. Star Trek The Experience, one of the more engaging attractions in Las Vegas, is closing forever on September 1.
A Las Vegas casino-hotel is a risky place to put an attraction if you want it to stick around. Star Trek The [...]

Luxor Gutted, Treasures To Museum

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Dark reports we’ve received have proved true; the Egyptian-themed attractions inside the Luxor Pyramid in Las Vegas are gone. The John Dykstra special effects Imax ride is history, as is the reproduction of King Tut’s burial chamber — but on a happier note, all of the “authentic reproductions” from the tomb have been donated [...]

Inventors Hall of Fame No Perpetual Motion Machine

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

A story in the Beacon Journal confirms what we had suspected: the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum in Akron, Ohio, has wound down to full stop. Its web site skirts the issue by talking of “construction,” but it’s the construction of the middle school that’s being built where the Hall of Fame used [...]