# Interesting Historical Markers you've visited **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2026, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741 "2026-07-17T12:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/21 "2026-07-18T02:26:39Z")
[The Roald Amundsen Monument](https://www.foundsf.org/Roald_Amundsen_and_Gjoa_memorial) outside Golden Gate Park, SF. Amundsen had no connection to SF, and I don’t think he ever even passed thru, but one of his boats ended up in SF, at least for a while. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/22 "2026-07-18T11:31:18Z")
I hope he didn’t ask the locals for the way to Carnegie Hall. 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/23 "2026-07-18T15:43:57Z")
I’m sure others have seen this, but I noticed it several years ago when we were walking to Oracle Park to watch a Giants game. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/8yNGFLB.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/q1uzpNi) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/24 "2026-07-18T16:00:01Z")
If you can stretch “visited” to “drove past and googled later”, a memorial to the Long Cane Massacre. > **[Long Cane Massacre - SC Picture Project](https://www.scpictureproject.org/mccormick-county/long-cane-massacre.html)** > > The Long Cane Massacre (also referred to as the Long Canes Massacre) took place in the Long Canes area of Abbeville in 1760. Scots-Irish settlers established a community near Long Cane Creek in the early 1750s where the height of the canes indicated... ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/25 "2026-07-18T17:56:50Z")
Ran across this with text while walking between the train station and the train museum in Utrecht. Wilhelm Röntgen was expelled from Utrecht college. > **[Röntgen tile panel - Jackie Sleper](https://jackiesleper.com/project/rontgen-tegeltableau/?lang=en)** > > \[et\_pb\_section fb\_built=”1″ \_builder\_version=”4.16″ global\_colors\_info=”{}”\]\[et\_pb\_row \_builder\_version=”4.16″ background\_size=”initial” background\_position=”top\_left” background\_repeat=”repeat” global\_colors\_info=”{}”\]\[et\_pb\_column type=”4\_4″... ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/26 "2026-07-18T18:11:26Z")
On the tropical isle of Langkawi, the legend of Mahsuri lives on. [![](https://img.atlasobscura.com/MSPcsaRdxUdJKVU8NMCyS7aIqy2D6XRneLzlIxJQ9no/rt:fit/w:1200/q:80/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL3BsYWNl/X2ltYWdlcy9kNGQx/NWYyMS1kZDY1LTQ1/YzItYjA1NS1iMGVl/YTQ5M2EwMjIwZTMx/MWI1MTE4YTFiYjE5/ODVfSU1HXzQxODgu/anBlZw.webp) ](https://img.atlasobscura.com/MSPcsaRdxUdJKVU8NMCyS7aIqy2D6XRneLzlIxJQ9no/rt:fit/w:1200/q:80/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL3BsYWNl/X2ltYWdlcy9kNGQx/NWYyMS1kZDY1LTQ1/YzItYjA1NS1iMGVl/YTQ5M2EwMjIwZTMx/MWI1MTE4YTFiYjE5/ODVfSU1HXzQxODgu/anBlZw.webp) I visited in 1996. There was a sign next to this sign with a picture of a young girl of the seventh generation. Right around the time she was born, tourism in Langkawi picked up and prosperity returned to the island as in the prophecy. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/27 "2026-07-21T06:13:25Z")
Right near the laundry place that I used to patronize before I moved into an apartment that has a washer and dryer is a marker devoted to _Buck v. Bell_, one of the more shameful decisions our hallowed Supreme Court has ever rendered. Carrie Buck, whose involuntary sterilization was made possible thanks to the decision, was born here in 1906. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/28 "2026-07-21T11:45:12Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > My first entry is about the song “Jingle Bells”. Heh. I used to live on that block in Medford, MA where that marker sits. I’ve got a few – In the section of West Windsor, NJ that was known as “Grovers Mill” there’s a monument to the infamous Orson Welles 1938 Halloween broadcast of H.G. Wells’ _War of the Worlds_ > **[Martian Landing Site Monument, Grovers Mill, New Jersey](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2749)** > > Ground Zero for Orson Welles' radio drama "War of the Worlds" alien invasion of Oct. 30, 1938. [https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/monument-to-the-war-of-the-worlds](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/monument-to-the-war-of-the-worlds) My wife grew up in Grovers Mill, and her sister was instrumental in getting the monument erected. What’s really interesting is that nothing actually happened there, unless you count the (exaggerated or possibly fictional) accounts of people shooting at the oddly-shaped water tower at the Grovers Mill company, thinking it was a Martian. (The water tower, and the Grovers Mill company are both still there) > **[Grovers Mill, NJ - Water Tower Mistaken for a Martian](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/11516)** > > Visit reports, news, maps, directions and info on Water Tower Mistaken for a Martian in Grovers Mill, New Jersey. **Frankenstein Trestle** marker near Crawford Notch in New Hampshire. The railroad trestle was near Frankenstein Bluff in the White mountains, which had been painted by Godfrey Frankenstein, a member of a family of German artists who migrated to the US about the time Mary Shelley’s book came out, and were unaware that a famous mad scientist had been grafted onto the family tree. One of the arliest movies was about a train going over the FRamnkenstein Trestle, which makes it the first movie with “Frankenstein” in the title. [https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=77698](https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=77698) There’s a marker by the roadside in Westford Massachusetts to **Prince Henry Sinclair** of the Orkney Islands, who some claim voyaged to America a century before Columbus and left a rock carving of a knight, possibly a grave marker for a companion who died there: [https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=139656](https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=139656) [https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=230425](https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=230425) [http://www.clansinclairsc.org/images/Prince%20Henry%20Sinclair%20Brochure.pdf](http://www.clansinclairsc.org/images/Prince%20Henry%20Sinclair%20Brochure.pdf) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/29 "2026-07-21T12:22:15Z")
My wife Pepper Mill just pointed this one out to me yesterday. I haven’t visited it yet, but it’s worth the trip. There’s a “blue marker” in Linlithgow, Scotland, which is where Montgomery Scott will be born on June 28 2222 . This site even has a countdown clock: > **[Scotty — Linlithgow Museum](https://www.linlithgowmuseum.org/scotty)** Take that, James T. Kirk! > **[Future Birthplace of James T. Kirk, Riverside, Iowa](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2081)** > > This is the place. A photo-worthy monument marks the spot. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/30 "2026-07-21T12:28:40Z")
Your bit about Grover’s Mill reminded me of this fun thing I’ve visited. It isn’t _quite_ a historic marker. But it is historic and it marks a spot. > **[Brooks Catsup Bottle water tower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Catsup_Bottle_water_tower)** > > The Brooks Catsup Bottle water tower, trademarked "The World's Largest Catsup Bottle", is a water tower on the south side of Collinsville, Illinois. It is claimed to be the largest catsup bottle in the world at 70 feet tall on a 100 foot stand with a volume of 100,000 gallons, which could theoretically hold 640,000 bottles of catsup. As a prime example of mid-20th-century novelty architecture, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The tower is most notable in its capacit "The... ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/31 "2026-07-21T12:41:27Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Your bit about Grover’s Mill reminded me of this fun thing I’ve visited. > > It isn’t _quite_ a historic marker. But it is historic and it marks a spot. At the risk of running the digression too far, if you’re talking about huge containers that boast about their holding capacity, you have to mention Boston’s Giant Tea Pot. It dates from 1873, when it was erected outside the Oriental Tea Company. The giant tea pot emitted clouds of smoke, and is marked with its capacity – 227 gallons, two quarts, one pint, and three gills. The pot has remained there through multiple ownerships, still putting out smoke. Now it’s attached to a Starbucks. > **[What's the story of the steaming tea kettle outside the Government Center...](https://www.boston.com/news/wickedpedia/2023/11/28/big-tea-kettle-government-center-starbucks-boston-ma/)** > > The steaming kettle has been a Boston landmark since before Government Center existed, dating back to a 19th-century tea shop. [https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/boston-tea-kettle](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/boston-tea-kettle) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/32 "2026-07-21T12:46:41Z")
To bring this back on track to Historical Markers you’ve Visited, I submit the **Betty and Barnet Hill Alien Abduction** marker near Lincoln, NH on Route 3. This was the couple who claimed they were abducted in 1961, and which formed the basis for John Fuller’s book _The Interrupted Journey_. I’m kinda surprised about the spot – I’d always pictured some out-of-the-way dirt road, but Route 3 is a pretty imortant north-south route, although INterstate I-93 has taken a lot of the traffic off it. Still, I drive on this frequemntly enough, and have a hard time picturing an abduction there. [https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=74571](https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=74571) [https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction\_Review-g46140-d8612098-Reviews-Betty\_and\_Barney\_Hill\_Incident\_Historical\_Marker-Lincoln\_New\_Hampshire.html](https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g46140-d8612098-Reviews-Betty_and_Barney_Hill_Incident_Historical_Marker-Lincoln_New_Hampshire.html) Please – no comments. I’m a skeptic myself, and know the doctor who examined them didn’t believe an alien abduction took place. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/33 "2026-07-21T13:01:17Z")
This one is located not far from where I lived in Salt Lake City Utah. It’s a monument to a tree stump. Really. There was apparently only one tree growing in the Salt Lake Valley when the Mormon pioneers came – or at least near their track from Emigration Canyon to the future downtown. All the later emigrants, including the “handcart pioneers” passed close by that cedar tree, and it became a familiar and favored spot. The tree was fenced in in 1924 to protect it. The Daughters of the Utah pioneers erected the monument to the Lone Cedar Tree in 1933. In 1958 vandals cut away most of the remaining tree, leaving only a stump. A bronze replica was installed. > **[Lone Cedar Tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Cedar_Tree)** > > The Lone Cedar Tree is a historical monument located on 600 East between 300 and 400 South, near downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. According to Mormon Pioneers, it was the location of the only tree growing in the valley in 1847, when they arrived. On July 4, 1933, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers erected the monument to honor the Mormon heritage and history of Salt Lake City. The tree was fenced in to protect it from vandals in 1924. The monument was erected in 1933. A plaque on the mon... > **[The Lone Cedar Tree](https://www.intermountainhistories.org/items/show/702)** > > In downtown Salt Lake City sits a monument for the Lone Cedar Tree. The Lone Cedar was rumored to be the only tree in the valley at the time Mormon pioneers settled in the area. Its famous role in the… > **[Lone Cedar Tree | Utah Historical Markers](https://utahhistoricalmarkers.org/c/slc/lone-cedar-tree/)** Some bits of the original wood were still there when I lived there, but it’s all gone now. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/34 "2026-07-21T13:10:18Z")
This historic marker / statue is near me: > **[Barefoot Mailman Statue, Hillsboro Beach, Florida](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/13412)** > > Tribute to the fearless barefoot mailmen of Florida -- particularly the one that was eaten by alligators. As detailed here, there were / are more commemorations to these intrepid dudes along the route, but this is the best known. I’ve visited two of them. > **[Barefoot mailman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_mailman)** > > The barefoot mailman is an iconic Florida symbol. It refers to the carriers on the first U.S. Mail route (1885–1892) between Palm Beach and the settlements around Lake Worth on the north, and Miami, Coconut Grove, and Lemon City to the south. The mailmen had to walk and travel by boat because there was no road connecting the 68-mile (109 km) route from Palm Beach to Miami. Approximately 28 miles (45 km) of the one way trip was by rowing different boats, and the rest by walking along the firmer ... ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/35 "2026-07-21T13:20:55Z")
The most interesting one for me is the Nevada nuclear test marker (My favourite factoid about living in Nevada is I was living in the state where IIRC 30% of the atomic bombs ever detonated by the human race exploded 😉 )… [https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=32982](https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=32982) Also the Rufus Stone, the site of the “accidental” death of King William Rufus > **[The Rufus Stone Monument in the New Forest, Hampshire](https://archaeology-travel.com/england/the-rufus-stone-monument-new-forest-hampshire/)** > > The historical background to the Rufus Stone, a memorial to King William II who was killed in the forest, with photographs and visiting details. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/36 "2026-07-21T13:48:11Z")
I’ve long thought that you could do an entire book on markers and monuments to pre-Columbian “discoverers of America”. I’ve already listed Prince henry Sinclair above. There’s a statue of Leif Ericon on Charlesbank WEst in the median of Commonwealth Avenue in Back Bay Boston. If you look closely, you’ll note that the statue’s plinth forms a rather stubby Viking longship: > **[Statue of Leif Erikson (Boston)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Leif_Erikson_(Boston))** > > Leif Eriksson is an outdoor statue by Anne Whitney at the west end of the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Installed in 1887, it was the first public sculpture to honor the Norse explorer in the New World. The bronze is 102 in (260 cm) tall and stands on a red sandstone pedestal 108 in (270 cm) high, with a small stonework boat at the base. The granite around the sculpture originally served as a fountain, but has since been converted to a flower bed. The work con... > **[Vikings, baking powder and poets: Boston’s long and confusing history with...](https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/12/27/vikings-boston-history-leif-erikson)** > > We break down the long timeline of Massachusetts’ complicated, largely unproven and definitely unorthodox infatuation with Erikson and Viking heritage. Another marker is at **Mystery Hill** in North Salem, New Hampshire, now called _America’s Stonehenge_ because of the supposed alignment of some of the monumental stones, in the same way such alignments exist at the original Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in the UK. They are so committed to this that they’ve actually cut “avenues” through the trees surrounding the hill so that devoted watchers could actually see the sunrises and sunsets at solstices. (unfortunately for the owners of Mystery Hill, it’s not on a plain, so cutting don the intervening trees was necessary). Officially, the stone constructions are the work of the Pattee family that lived there, but enthusiasts have attributed them to a host of other visitors – Vikings, Irish monks, an Icelandic bishop, Phoenicians. Even the local Indians, who would seem to be the likelest candidates. Part of the problem is that some of the reconstructors felt onbliged to rebuild the structures the way they thought they were originally. It’s evben been argued that the site inspired the “Devil’s Hopyard” in the H.P. Lovecraft story “The Dunwich Horror”. Lovecraft scholar J.T. Joshi says that can’t be – Lovecraft didn’t actually visit the site until after he wrote the story. But her certainly could have read about it. Anyway, I recommend it as a fun day out and a walk in the New Hampshire woods. > **[Roadside History: 'America's Stonehenge' is found at Mystery Hill in Salem](https://www.unionleader.com/nh/travel/historical_markers/roadside-history-americas-stonehenge-is-found-at-mystery-hill-in-salem/article_76065cbf-757b-58da-a4b1-3463ec7dfb1b.html)** > > New Hampshire Historical Marker Number: 72 > **[Marker #72 Mystery Hill](https://mikenh.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/marker-72-mystery-hill/)** > > Marker Text: Four miles east on Route 111 is a privately owned complex of strange stone structures bearing similarities to early stone work found in western Europe. They suggest an ancient culture … ---
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I’ve seen the geographical marker near Poniatowski, Wisconsin. [45×90 points - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45%C3%9790_points) ---
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In Menahga, MN: a statue honoring [St Urho](https://www.cityofmenahga.com/?SEC=895B71BD-EEBF-4E05-94D1-9508BCF6E9E4) [![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczPKqkyBe7LKrY9H4SU0OSJhcSq-MR-9V6ew3VSEGA62kwZsN2gFbPTIFdpx58v9-N7ZiYo1CkenJ25bNXQ8O726Pd1b7wltFGgbblMrQl-RyTkte3_96HR4xq4KYBb2v8q2z2yo2f0h3Gzhqu1QvrPi4w=w1415-h795-s-no?authuser=0) ](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczPKqkyBe7LKrY9H4SU0OSJhcSq-MR-9V6ew3VSEGA62kwZsN2gFbPTIFdpx58v9-N7ZiYo1CkenJ25bNXQ8O726Pd1b7wltFGgbblMrQl-RyTkte3_96HR4xq4KYBb2v8q2z2yo2f0h3Gzhqu1QvrPi4w=w1415-h795-s-no?authuser=0) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741/39 "2026-07-24T12:59:07Z")
Just a few yards from the Jingle Bell marker. My wife and I always break into “Lafayette!” from _Hamilton_ as we walk by. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/98mF5Tt.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/98mF5Tt) ---
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Jesus Christ’s final resting place. He used a stand in (you know, his brother Isukiri) for his crucifixion then retired as a rice farmer in Japan to spread his good word. > **[Kirisuto no Haka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirisuto_no_Haka)** > > Kirisuto no Haka (Japanese: キリストの墓) (lit. 'Tomb of Christ') is a tomb claimed to be that of Jesus in Shingō, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Kiyomaro Takeuchi claimed that he discovered the tomb in 1935 while he was surveying the village of Herai (current village of Shingō).\[a\] The Takeuchi documents, which are believed to be a hoax, claim that Jesus underwent training in Japan for 12 years before spreading Christianity. The manuscript also claims that instead of Jesus, his brother Isukiri died on the... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-historical-markers-youve-visited/1031741.md?page=3)