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Step Right Up!

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Stairs are so ordinary and prosaic that we rarely think of them as tourist destinations. Oh sure, we’ll stand in awe before a magnificent stained-glass window. We’ll wander for a wall mural or travel for a turret. But it’s about time that we pay tribute to an often overlooked, exceedingly everyday structure. So here’s a [...]

Cost in Space

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Plain old earthbound tourism has seen plenty of price-cutting and bargain hunting in recent tight-fisted times. But when it comes to Space Tourism, the price is skyrocketing! Russian Space agency Roscomos announced that it is nearly doubling the cost of a trip to the International Space station. If you want a seat on the Soyuz [...]

World’s Largest Pistachio Nut Is Blessed

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

The World’s Largest Pistachio Nut was officially dedicated and blessed by a priest from nearby La Luz.

Four Corners Monument: Miles Off?

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

The Four Corners Monument, the only place in America where you can spread yourself into four states at one time, is in the wrong spot, if you believe the flurry of stories in the media  this week.
Modern techniques of geodetic survey and measurement are being used to nitpick the work of a surveyor in the [...]

Atomic Name Instantly Vaporized

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

It’s official: the National Atomic Museum has moved and changed its name to the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History.
This is actually a homecoming of sorts for the museum, which began as the Sandia Base Weapons Museum at Kirtland Air Force Base on the outskirts of Albuquerque, New Mexico. After September 11, 2001, the [...]

Mount Cristo Rey: Danger Lurks

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

There are a handful of attractions in this country that are too remote to be casual destinations, or that frankly you’d have to be nuts to visit. But no attraction in America seems to be as much of a magnet for human assault as Mount Cristo Rey, a Catholic shrine on the U.S./Mexican border.
We’ve [...]

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