On our way to Niagara Falls, we make a fairly far-off side stop at a little place I’d been meaning to see for years – what is supposedly the smallest church in the world. There are many tiny churches, but this one claims to be the tiniest of...
Indian Echo Caverns were the first caverns I ever went to. I was only 10 or so and the family took a weekend trip to Hershey Park; the caverns are only a few miles away. Since we were on a cave kick last summer, I decided to revisit...
In 1948, Colonel Mahlon M. Haines, the owner of several shoe stores in PA & MD, decided to implement what is likely the ultimate advertising gimmick. He had a house shaped like a shoe built in Hellam. The house was actually intended to be used as a vacation...
Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site consists of a restored town from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as ruins of a blast furnace. Iron was produced here from 1771 until 1883. The work was somewhat dangerous, but the workers generally made decent money and lived good lives. ...
Remember that long list of explorers you had to learn in school and likely forgot all of now, besides Christopher Columbus (which is tragic honestly, since not only did he not really do much of anything, he tortured, enslaved, and murdered the local people)? Remember da Gama? Vespucci? ...
Hamilton/Burr Got Milk? commercial from sometime in the 90’s In the early days of this country, if you didn’t get along with a political rival, you didn’t just do the childish mudslinging modern day politicians do. Oh no, you popped a cap. And that’s exactly what happened in...
Probably the only instance I’ve come across where the gift shop is far more entertaining than the attraction itself. Lost River Caverns’ gift shop is, for lack of a better word, awesome. Part of it serves as a mini museum of the most random stuff you can think...
If you’re in eastern PA, you see quite a few signs on the highways for various caverns. Over the summer, I decided to check some of them out; it had been some time since I’d been underground anyway. We went to both Crystal Cave and Lost River Caverns...
