The Spam Museum (Austin, Minnesota)
Austin, Minnesota is home to a special museum dedicated to one particular brand of canned precooked meat. The museum’s first home at Austin’s Oak Park Mall opened as the Hormel Foods First Century Museum in …
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The Big Bat (Louisville, Kentucky)
The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory is not just a home to the world-famous baseball bat producer. It’s also a place for them to show off some of their heritage and more importantly, it’s home …
McGillin’s Olde Ale House (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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 …
Double-Barrelled Cannon (Athens, Georgia)
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 …
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 …
Dinosaurland (Vernal, Utah)
The small city of Vernal, Utah, roughly 175 miles (280 km) east of Salt Lake City is known its beautiful scenery but offers a more interesting attraction to those whose interests lie in the strange …
The Plains Train Depot (Plains, Georgia)
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 …
J-Who “The Depot Dog” Grave (Plains, Georgia)
In the late 1970s, a one-term Georgia governor from the small rural southern town of Plains, Georgia, decided to take his particular style of politics to the national stage. The little-known peanut farmer had so …