Poor President Garfield. He was in office only six months in 1881 when he was cut down by an assassin’s bullet. And then his monument got torn apart and turned into a fireplace. It’s not the big Garfield monument in Cleveland, Ohio. That’s still there. The monument-turned-fireplace monument was built in a hot, dry canyon […]
After the dinosaurs were wiped out, paleontology got pretty boring — except for the mammoths. These ambulatory haystacks are the superstars of the Pliocene epoch. They are the one mammal that every roadside zoo would like to have, even though they’re extinct. That hasn’t stopped people from wanting to look at replica mammoths. There’s a […]
Where are the skull and bones of the great Apache Indian leader Geronimo? We asked that question years ago, and even carried a Geronimo skull proxy with us on the road to see if it could mystically lead us to the real thing (it couldn’t). It did lead us to this shrine in Tawas […]
The world’s most expensive tumbleweed has been unveiled in Chandler, Arizona. Created at a cost of $100,000, “Momentum” is perched atop a ten-foot pedestal in the city’s new Park-and-Ride lot. Critics have quickly labeled it “rat’s nest” and “hairball.” “I would have thought it would have been bigger,” said Jeff Weninger, the only current member […]
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