Naturally low expectations are not unexpected for a restaurant that attracts tourists with a giant artichoke, but there’s a rich farming history behind Castroville, California’s Giant Artichoke. It was Spanish settlers who originally brought artichokes …
Opened in 1860, McGillin’s Olde Ale House is the oldest continuously operated tavern in Philadelphia and one of the Ten Oldest Restaurants in the United States. Located on Drury Street, an alley connecting 13th Street …
Based on the 1642 design of Florentine gun maker Antonia Petrini, this civil war era double-barreled cannon was (just like the Confederate States) a colossal failure based on ignorance. The American Civil War saw quite …
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 …
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, 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. …
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 …
In July 2004, the northwestern Alberta town of Beaverlodge unveiled a three-meter high beaver, known unimaginatively as the Beaverlodge Beaver, to mark its 75th anniversary. Located just off of Highway 43 in a small park …
The micronation of the Republic of Kugelmugel is located entirely within the city of Vienna, Austria. The tiny Republic that declared its independence in 1976 is so small that it’s actually entirely within the Prater, …
The Plains Train Depot, more commonly just known as the Plains Depot is the oldest building in Plains, Georgia and served the community of Plains as a freight and passenger depot until 1951 when passenger …
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