The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History is both a place to find fear and hope. During your tour, you go from the history of the beginnings of Nuclear Science. The race during WWII to make the H bomb. The dropping of the Little Boy on Hiroshima. The arms race between the USA and Russian. But also are hopeful […]
The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is located just outside the Badlands National Park but it has three different sites that you have to visit. The picture above is the Visitor Center. In the center, you can relive the “duck and cover” era of the cold war with videos that were shown to teach people how. It has so many […]
The Santa Fe Trail was used by Native Americans as a passage way. In the 1820’s, Europeans start using it to travel from what is now Kansas City, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico for trade and moving manufactured goods. One of the stops along the way was James and Lucinda Mahaffie farm. In 1857, the Mahaffie’s left Olathe, Kansas […]
The Corn Palace is the only Palace left of the over 30 Grain Palaces built in between 1887 and 1930, by cities looking to promote themselves and their products across the Midwest. The Corn Palace draws over half a million people a year from around the world. Built original in 1892, it was rebuilt several time until 1921 which is […]
Falls Park is a great place to spend a day and fall in love with the place. They have everything that you can possible want to do and the relaxing sounds and the beauty of the falls. Downstream from the falls just a bit is where they believe that the Dubuque house which was the local hotel around 1857 when […]
The Shrine Grotto of the Redemption is just breathtaking. The definition of a grotto is a small picturesque cave which is usually artificial in a park or garden. But when I hear grotto, all I image is the Playboy Mansion but this one was built by Father Paul Matthias Dobberstein with very different thoughts about the uses of his Grotto […]
I was just driving along on my way back from the Badland National Park and I saw a sign along the highway, Buffalo Bill’s Museum. That was all it took to get me to stop. It was about 9ish and museums general open between ten and noon most places and most days. Coming off the highway was perfect as the […]
Crazy Horse Memorial is an incredible testament to two men’s dream, Chief Henry Standing Bear and Korczak Ziolkowski. The memorial is being has been a slow build with just the money brought in by donations and other small funding. Korczak had been offered large donations during his lifetime but he never excepted them. The Memorial is being build on a […]
As I was driving along Highway 90 on my way to the Badlands National Park, suddenly this Horse Sculpture came into view. Along side him was a great big Bull head. I had to stop and see what it was. I found this great place called Porter Sculpture Park. Wayne Porter, a self taught artist has created a field of […]
Jennie Wades House Museum and Civil War Tails at the Homestead Diorama Museum are across the street from each other and less then a block away. It is best to go to Jennie’s house first to get tickets for a tour. If it over an hour or more wait time, then Civil War Tails at the Homestead Diorama Museum is […]