Ruby Ghost Town Ruby is a ghost town in Arizona, founded as a mining town in Bear Valley, originally named Montana Camp, so named because the miners were mining at the foot of Montana Peak. Mining started circa 1877. The Montana Mine produced gold, silver, lead, zinc and copper.
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Glory Hole Waterfall The Glory Hole Waterfall is located in the Ozark National Forest in Northwest Arkansas. The unique waterfall drops 30 feet through a hole in the roof of a bluff cave. The Glory Hole Waterfall only runs when there is enough rainfall, which generally in Arkansas is
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American Windmill Museum The American Windmill Museum is a museum of wind power in Lubbock, Texas. Located on 28 acres of city park land east of downtown Lubbock, the museum has more than 160 American style windmills on exhibition. Windmills as large as 25 feet in diameter could be
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Update Bob Mullen passed away in March of 2020 and all of the memorabilia was auctioned. Bob’s Gasoline Alley The largest collection of Historic Route 66 gasoline memorabilia in the mid-west was started in 1995 by owner Bob Mullen and his wife Darlene both lovers of memorabilia from the
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Cape Meares Lighthouse The Shortest Lighthouse in Oregon Captain John Meares was the first to sail into Tillamook Bay, naming it Quick Sand Bay because of the mud at low tide. Captain Robert Gray was the first American on the scene and he called it Murderers Harbor because one
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Mariscal Mine Big Bend National Park The Mariscal Mine once bustled as the center of the Big Bend quicksilver mining economy. From 1900 to 1943, Mariscal Mine produced 1,400 seventy-six pound flasks of mercury – nearly one quarter of the total produced in the United States! Now deserted, the
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Fort Davis National Historic Site Established in October 1854 along the Limpia Creek at Painted Comanche Camp by Bvt. Maj. Gen. Persifor Frazer Smith, Fort Davis was named after Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. “Hoping to protect the garrison from winter northers, Smith tucked the fort into a canyon flanked
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Join me as we visit a “Photographers Paradise” called “Old Car City” north of Atlanta Georgia. Old Car City is mostly a forest with of 6 miles of trails meandering thru the over 4000 cars on 34 acres, all of which are 40 years old or more. Many of the cars are covered in pine (more…) →
Wildseed Farms Wildseed Farms has been growing fields of wildflowers for the production of seed for over 35 years. They are the nation’s largest working wildflower farm with over 200 acres in Fredericksburg Texas alone. There is no charge for admission and they are open year around, 7 days a week,
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Fort Scott National Historic Site Fort Scott National Historic Site is a historical area under the control of the United States National Park Service in Fort Scott Kansas. Named after General Winfield Scott, who achieved renown during the Mexican–American War, during the middle of the 19th century the fort served
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