Toy Soldiers (Toronto, Ontario)
The Monument to the War of 1812, or as it’s more commonly known, Toy Soldiers, is a large public sculpture in Toronto, Ontario. Situated in the CityPlace neighborhood adjacent to Fort York, Toy Soldiers was …
UFO Landing Pad (St. Paul, Alberta)
Located in the center of the northeast region of Alberta, the St. Paul town motto “A People Kind of Place!” seems strangely out of tune with the fact that they have the Official World’s First …
Old Fresno Water Tower (Fresno, California)
Completed in November of 1894, the Old Fresno Water Tower, designed by Chicago architect George Washington Maher is a historic water tower listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One of Fresno’s most distinctive …
Billy Carter’s Service Station (Plains, Georgia)
Billy Carter, the younger brother and proverbial thorn in the side of the 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter, was known as much for his lust for life as for his famous sibling. …
The Pickle Barrel House (Grand Marais, Michigan)
Built in 1926 by the Pioneer Cooperage Company, the Pickle Barrel House, a historic piece of novelty architecture, is exactly what it sounds like, a larger-than-life pickle barrel that served as a summer home for …
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In a clearing of pine trees some 600 feet (183 meters) from the entrance to a marina on the Gulf Coast of Elberta, Alabama, there is a remarkably unrealistic recreation of the world famous ancient ... -
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Tres Shannon and Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson, the owners of Voodoo Doughnut started their doughnut journey in the small Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California. Upon their return to Portland, the two started building ... -
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