Blackville, S.C., boasts perhaps the world’s only parcel of land owned by God. God’s Acre Healing Springs is a small parcel of damp sod 3 1/2 miles north of downtown. The attraction sports about a dozen taps a couple feet … Continue reading →
His nickname was Tıny. Hıs influence was gigantic. William “Tiny” Zehnder (1919-2006) grew up in the restaurant business. When he was 8 years old, his parents traded in their family farm to purchase a hotel in nearby Frankenmuth, Mich. They … Continue reading →
What makes for a successful globally acclaimed museum? In the case of the National Mustard Museum in Middletown, Wis., the ingredients included a heartbreaking World Series loss, an all-night supermarket and a mysterious disembodied voice. During the wee hours of … Continue reading →
It takes a hero to wade soul-deep into a miasma of death and laboriously rescue victims teetering on the abyss. Dr. John Jay Terrell was that kind of a hero. The good doctor volunteered to staff the first of 39 … Continue reading →
Two millennia of Native American culture and customs are always front and center in and around Chillicothe, Ohio. The city of 21,725 is bounded north and south by the largest concentration of American Indian burial mounds in the nation. The … Continue reading →
On March 22, 1980, next to a cow pasture north of Elberton, Ga., a mysterious white-haired gentlemen, who pseudonymically dubbed himself Robert C. Christian, unveiled perhaps the most enigmatic monuments ever erected in America. The granite multi-stone monolith’s origin is … Continue reading →
One could understandably assert it is not an everyday occurrence to climb over a pile of radioactive waste and live to tell about it, none the worse for wear. One would be wrong. The Weldon Spring, Mo., Nuclear Waste Adventure … Continue reading →
If Route 66 is America’s Mother Road, the transcontinental Abraham Lincoln Memorial Highway, 13 years older and nearly 1,000 miles longer than its parallel counterpart to the south, is certainly the father. Constructed in 1913, the 3,389-mile asphalt ribbon of … Continue reading →
The Lake Cumberland area of Kentucky dubs itself the “Houseboat Capital of the World” with good reason. The region hosts the greatest concentration of houseboat manufacturers in the world. The largest, Trifecta Ventures, was created by the August 2014 merger … Continue reading →
Rochester, Ind., population 6,218, is a capital within a capital within a capital, the holy of holies of a triplet of concentric territories all known as “The Round Barn Capital of the World.” Indiana boasts more round barns than any … Continue reading →
When Fred H. Wells opened a milk route in Le Mars, Iowa, in 1913, little did he know the iconic globally renowned landmark his humble enterprise would spawn. Wells bought a horse, delivery wagon and a few cans and jars … Continue reading →
