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 […]
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 Experience […]
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 to […]
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 to […]