Reading that link, I see that I had dinner there a few months ago, or at least on the same site (it’s now a restaurant).
For out of the way and neglected, I’ve been to Dura Europos and Mari in Syria. One was completely deserted and the other was guarded by a 10 year old boy selling crappy postcards.
as I said above, they did this on the interior of the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, as well. It’s also an obelisk-shaped structure with a spiralling stair. The Pilgrim Mnument was built after the Washington Monument, so they evidently lifted the idea from Washington.
I love that the sign has apparently been hit by moment magnitude scale loving vandals.
I used to hit the Sunday brunch buffet at the hotel where David Carradine later erotically asphyxiated himself. Back when I was hitting it, it was a Hilton and had arguably the best Sunday brunch in the city. Lots of good ones in town now, and that hotel is no longer even worth going out of your way for.
I’ve also been through Checkpoint Charlie on my way to East Berlin. That ain’t even around anymore, not to mention the Berlin Wall.
I’ve visited Bonnie and Clydes death scene. It’s about thirty miles from Lake Claiborne where my parents had a fishing trailer. Not much there except a vandalized plaque/marker. It was still a very rural area when I visited twenty years ago.
Heres the directions. Its a state highway in Louisiana.
When I was in the south of France, in Les Eyzies, the prehistoric capital of France. This little village is where part five and six of Jean Auels Earth Children’s series are set.
It is a lush river valley with lots of abris, natural rock overhangs that provided prized living space for prehistoric man.
We stayed in hotel Cro-Magnon. “Yeah right” I thought. But it turns out that right next to the hotel, there’s a little dark abri that is called Cro-Magnon, after an old hermit that lived there and who’s name was Cro Magnon. When the hermit died about hundred years ago, some buried bodies were found under his abri. It turned out the bodies were tens of thousands of years old, and belonged to people now known as the Cro Magnon people, the earliest and oldest form of Homo sapiens sapiens.
So there I was, at the back of my hotel, right next to the service entrance. It had a fence and an Unesco world heritage sign next to it. I had goosebumps, man.
I must admit, I didn’t come to Les Eyzies for that particular site, but to visit the caves mentioned in the Ayla books. Still, that site made a deep impression on me.
The Alben Barkley Museum in Paducah, Kentucky. It has some nice displays on Truman’s Vice President: http://www.aboutpaducah.com/articles/alben-w-barkley-museum.html
It is much more restrictive. Without a military escort you are not going on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Civilians are let on for reason but you can’t just show up and say you want to go in. I’ve been there many times. Trained at Lakehurst and Dix. Flew in and out of McGuire. My brother has worked at Lakehurst for over 20 years. I’ve been to the crash site many times. They do supposedly give base tours every now and then so the site might be on there. Hanger #1 is very impressive. A modern blimp could easily fit in a corner of the hanger. The Hindenburg barely fit.
I once put my hand on the table (where the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 was signed). Its in a Hotel in Portsmouth, NH.
This is a good description and picture of that sad little site. Here’s me with a guide in the Ninth cave of the Zelandonii from the Ayla books.(now named Laugerie Haute). It is the largest abri in Les Eyzies, and has been inhabited continuously for over fifty thousand years. That makes it a good candidate for oldest city in the world. But even that site was pretty much closed to the public. I had to pay a guide extra and I was the only one visiting. All tourists go to the nearby Lascaux caves.
Fort Hartsuff and Museum of the Fur Trade, in NE; and Brewster Higbee’s cabin (author of “Home on the Range” and the geographic center of the 48 states, in Kansas.
Last time I was in Gibraltar, I got a tour of some of the tunnels carved into the Rock during World War II.
I’ve been to Buffalo Bill’s grave, in Colorado.
I visited Cambodia in 1998 and went to the Killing Fields in Choeung Ek, outside of Phnom Penh. That doesn’t sound particularly obscure, but the roads there weren’t especially maintained at the time and it took our taxi maybe 45 minutes to go the last couple miles. We were the only people there - no one working there, no one else visiting. There was a central pagoda-style tower full of skulls and very little signage. There were some cattle grazing on the fields. If you walked around a little, you could see bits of cloth and bone fragments poking out of the shallow mass graves. It was profoundly eerie. I gather from a google image search that it’s better maintained and perhaps more visited these days.
Man, you guys have been to some obscure places. Best I can come up with at the moment is Hovenweep National Monument on the border of CO and UT. Maybe more later.
In my ongoing, “Tragical History Tour”, I stop at famous car-crash and plane crash sites. (James Dean, Patsy Cline, others) Riots and murder scenes, too. Also, down every dirt road in Nevada you eventually come to some abandoned site to check out. There are a few whole run-down towns out there to roam around in. Good fun!
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I didn’t make (or even seen) the site, but I might have supplied the instructions. Typed 'em up years ago at somebody’s request. Guy really had a hard-on for Carole Lombard for some reason.
I wouldn’t bother. Hard to get to, and nothing to see. But be sure to grab a beer at the bar in Goodsprings. That place oozes cool!
Jayne Mansfield car wreck site. I need to go by there sometime.
Thanks. The trip isn’t always about the destination. Sometimes it’s just a reason to learn stuff, be active, and get off the beaten path enough to see things I otherwise wouldn’t.
She was lighthearted and quite adorable in My Man Godfrey. Good enough for Clark Gable is good enough for me.
Old Stone Fort State Park
I’d explain what it is, except nobody knows that.
The Battle for Adobe Walls, Texas, in 1874. There’s a little monument there recounting the exploits of a small trading post that held off an Indian attack that far outnumbered the defenders. Although not really a significant battle, what’s interesting about it is the Indians withdrew after Billy Dixon killed one of the Indian leaders with a shot at a distance in excess of 1500 yards. Not bad for 1874.