Disappearing Waterski Lake Refills – WI | End of Trail Closes – OR | Garbage Museum is Tax-Exempt – CT | Abduction of Minnie Pearl – TN | Squirrel Cage Jail – IA
Money is tight at the moment, and U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R) has used the current recession to attack even the thought of federal money going to Las Vegas’s proposed Mob Museum (One Vegas bureaucrat replied indignantly that, “We think our projects are just as important as those of the other local jurisdictions in the […]
The Peabody Ducks — five mallards that parade through the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee — already had it pretty sweet. Their job is to swim in the hotel’s lobby fountain and provide camcorder and camera fodder for goggle-eyed visitors. And they never end up on the Peabody’s dinner menu. But the mallard mascots’ lives […]
Apparently based on the success of the monstrous Titanic attraction in Branson, MO, a second doomed ocean liner-shaped facility will be erected in tourist mecca Pigeon Forge, TN by Spring 2010. We like this artist’s concept of the new place. Branson broke the ice, in a way, on the effectiveness of placing an oversized thing […]
Nature’s savagery was on full display in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, in the early morning hours of September 23. A raging fire tore through the Three Bears Gift Shop on the tourist mecca’s main drag, destroying it. But the gift shop’s five bears (not three) survived without injury, sheltered out back within a thick concrete bear […]
