To the surprise of some, downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, is one of America’s foremost architectural marvels. In the 1920s, a flood of oil money rushed into town, leading to a boom of spectacular and ornate architecture, much of it in the popular Art Deco style of the time. Many of these buildings, such as the spectacular Boston Avenue Methodist Church, rank...

The Bulawayo Club building is a time capsule of a colonial gentlemen’s club. The building was erected in 1934. It remains an extravagant piece of Zimbabwean history. The distinction is still visible, showing the grace and disgrace of a bygone era.  Like other similar establishments in ex-colonies, the club was established as a social hub for the...

The North American Bigfoot Center serves as the center point of Cliff Barackman's research into Bigfoot, and all things "Squatchy." The staff are all individuals who have been involved in research at some level, and the museum itself highlights the more evidence-based material available on the subject. Eyewitness accounts including newspaper articles,...

On a pole by the highway in Upsala, Ontario, is a giant mosquito. With a knife and fork held in two of its legs, and a doomed man in two more, the mosquito appears to be on its way to a filling dinner. The steel structure, which has about a 16-foot wingspan, appears to be a reference to the horrendous mosquito problem in this rural area. The creator...

This six-foot-tall headstone pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life: Mountain Dew. Located in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Johnson City, this unique monument is an homage to Mountain Dew's original bottle design. Brothers Ally and Barney Hartman ran a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in Knoxville, Tennessee. They wanted a...

The fishing structures consist of a platform built above the watercourse, usually with a rustic accommodation hut upon it. Derricks equipped with ropes and winches raise and lower large fishing nets in and out of the water. In the canal it is possible to catch all sorts of fish, from catfish, carp, and eels to bream, perch, chub, and mullet. At the...