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Off-Earth Living To Begin East Of Orlando

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Interspace, an attraction that will break ground later this year, will have the largest indoor simulated Mars environment anywhere on the planet.

2011: Jump Out of a Jet In Your Swim Trunks

Monday, May 10th, 2010

We appreciate when a large thing has more going for it than just swollen volume, its builders boldly pushing beyond first-level “World’s Largest” thinking. “We could just create an immense wooden Trojan Horse,” they say, “but let’s build one with strobe light eyes and a go kart track for intestines!” That same one-step-beyond spark [...]

New Owners Hope Banana Museum Will Make Banana Bread

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

The next time that someone tells you that newspapers are irrelevant in the Digital Age, tell them that a newspaper just saved The Banana Museum. In March 2010 it was revealed that Ken Bannister’s Banana Museum in Hesperia, California, was closing. Its vast collection of bananabilia was for sale on eBay. There were no buyers. [...]

Land That Space Shuttle…Right…Here

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

In late 2008 NASA announced that the Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor Space Shuttles would be given away when they were retired. It accepted proposals from any attraction willing to pay the transportation and upkeep (an estimated $30 million apiece), and wound up with two dozen hopefuls.

No Myopia When It Comes to Stupak Visions

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Some roadside wonders wouldn’t exist without visionaries who insist on building them. We were reminded of that when we learned that Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas will unveil, in April, an attraction named “SkyJump.”

The Urge To Burj

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building, is set to open to the public on December 2, 2009. This titan of towers is the centerpiece of a 20 billion dollar development project that is bizarrely ambitious and ostentatious even by Dubai standards. Other record-setting features of this enormous undertaking include Dubai Mall (“the world’s largest shopping [...]

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