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Spacey New Home For UFO Museum

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

An article in Architectural Record offers the first peek at the proposed new digs for the International UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico. Two separate Massachusetts design firms will be creating the look of the building and its exhibits. The exterior resembles a melty, 1950s SF cover ala Richard Powers, while the interior looks like […]

Socorro: New Mexico’s Other UFO Town

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Roswell, New Mexico, is the self-declared Alien Capital of the World, and it has made a name for itself by commemorating a flying saucer crash that supposedly occurred sort of, kind of near there in 1947. Plans are even being drafted to develop an alien theme park in that relatively remote desert community. Now a […]

Summer Sale! Buy Your Own Museum!

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

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 […]

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