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Monday, May 10th, 2010We 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, 2010The 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, 2010In 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, 2010Some 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, 2009Burj 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 […]
Twin Arrows Restored, Route 66 Fans Rejoice
Monday, September 28th, 2009We’ve watched with resignation the gradual decay of the Twin Arrows east of Flagstaff, Arizona. The two big shafts — telephone poles, actually — were left to rot when the trading post that owned them closed in 1998. It wouldn’t be long, we thought, before they collapsed in a puff of desert dust, and then […]
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