I thought about this yesterday after reading a post but @Jumper Dad that referenced a guy jumping off the Space Needle in Gatlinburg. I have never been to Gatlinburg, didn't know they had something called the "space needle". Got me to thinking about neat stuff I discovered while traveling that I had no clue about.

 

Both my examples here are towers. First one actually resides right here in KY, and even thousands of KY people don't know about it. The Jefferson Davis monument. I remember the first time I saw it a couple of years after I first moved to KY. Thought it was freaking cool and actually a bit creepy, this huge structure in the middle of nowhere.

 

Jefferson Davis

 

The second example is The Tower of the Americas in San Antonio. I had no clue this thing existed and was really cool to discover on a trip to SA for a conference several years ago. Built around the same time frame as the Space Needle in Seattle for the 1968 worlds fair (which I also didn't know about either) it's actually taller than it's more well known sister tower in Seattle and is just pretty awesome to see. Complete with a revolving restaurant at the top, it offers a stunning view of San Antonio and surrounding area.

 

 

 

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I wouldn't call this neat, but it was something I found out a couple of weeks ago when we traveled to Central Kansas to visit our daughter. It has been a very dry past year there, and there are big problems with wildfires in Kansas and Oklahoma that we never hear about here. One report stated 387,000 acres were laid to waste already. We could see various fires while we were there in Manhattan.

Vanceburg (Lewis County) is the home of what is believed to be the only monument to Union soldiers located south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Don't know if this qualifies, or not. And I think we may have had a thread on this awhile back, but...Ghost Ship on the Ohio River across from Lawrenceburg, Indiana.

 

I was in Greenville, TN seeing a potential customer. Really nice people. Asked if we had any time to see their town yet which we had not. They said "you have to go see the cannonball."

 

There is a cannonball from the Civil War that was lodged in a church wall.

 

The building was supposedly once owned by Andrew Jackson.

 

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Don't know if this qualifies, or not. And I think we may have had a thread on this awhile back, but...Ghost Ship on the Ohio River across from Lawrenceburg, Indiana.

 

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Yes, that thing has an incredible back story and looks creepy as heck!

I was in Greenville, TN seeing a potential customer. Really nice people. Asked if we had any time to see their town yet which we had not. They said "you have to go see the cannonball."

 

There is a cannonball from the Civil War that was lodged in a church wall.

 

The building was supposedly once owned by Andrew Jackson.

 

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That's pretty cool.

I knew Irene Dunne, the actress was born in Louisville. Didn't know she graduated from Madison High in Indiana in 1916. She was nominated for 5 Academy Awards.

Most from Central Ky know this but others may not.

 

Driving through Lexington and you start to smell this incredible smell and then bam right there in the middle of Lexington, the worlds largest Peanut Butter manufacturing facility with great big JIF and Smuckers signs out front.

 

That place is locked up tight as Ft Knox.

 

Speaking of Ft Knox, the first time I drove by I was amazed that it sat that close to the interstate and was right out in the open...pretty cool being able to see it, even if it is from a distance.

Most from Central Ky know this but others may not.

 

Driving through Lexington and you start to smell this incredible smell and then bam right there in the middle of Lexington, the worlds largest Peanut Butter manufacturing facility with great big JIF and Smuckers signs out front.

 

That place is locked up tight as Ft Knox.

 

Speaking of Ft Knox, the first time I drove by I was amazed that it sat that close to the interstate and was right out in the open...pretty cool being able to see it, even if it is from a distance.

 

If you stop in front of the Depository though there will be MPs out there very quickly to get you to move along.

If you stop in front of the Depository though there will be MPs out there very quickly to get you to move along.

A friend had a flat tire in that area and stopped. Was "Escorted" to a "Better" location to change the tire. Had to drive on the rim basically to another location...then the MPs helped change the tire.

Just leaving Seattle and had no idea the largest octopuses in the world are in Puget Sound.

Just leaving Seattle and had no idea the largest octopuses in the world are in Puget Sound.

 

I think the largest blackberries must be on Whidbey Island.

Stopped in Georgia on one of our many trips to/from St. Augustine. Looked in the phone book to see what was nearby. Town called Juliette. Much of the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" was filmed there.

 

We ate at The Whistle Stop Cafe.

We were driving around in Frankfort a couple of years ago and happened by the former Old Taylor distillery. It is quite a site and worth a look.

 

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