There is a US 3c stamp from 1862 which is usually either "rose pink" or "pink" but also exists in a rare (and thus valuable) shade listed as "pigeon blood pink".
I find it weird that we have a colour called "Rose" because roses come in so many colours. I have suggested that the colour "rose" should be renamed "paint coloured" Then if you buy paint, you know exactly what you'll get.
Just yesterday, a friend of mine posted what she thought was the most amazing gotcha ever. She said "You think the human imagination is unlimited? Try imagining a new colour." I'm over here like "Yeah hun, just because YOU can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done. Apparently these people do it all the time. Get on THEIR level!
To be fair, though, all these colors are just fancy names given to colors that are already known. Or with blends of colors or iridescent reflections of colors we already know. Think of a cat, horse, or dog's knowledge of colors. Their rod to cone ratio allows them to see much more light than we can. They can pick up much more light in the dark than we can, but they only see mostly yellows and blues and greens. Everything else is turned into shades of browns and grays. Particularly red. That's the big one they can't see. Imagine describing red to a cat (also imagine that they can talk). Eventually, you could help them understand the gradient colors of the rainbow or visible spectrum that we know (or you could insert a magical spell that could make them see what we see). But the key words are "that we know." Could some alien species teach us humans colors they can see that we can't? What would they be? We already know how the colors blend from yellow to green, green to blue, blue to violet, violet to red, red to orange, and orange back to yellow (and all the combinations they make together like this video demonstrates). How could this alien species describe the colors they see that we can't, and what do they look like? Or do we, in fact, know them all already?
As someone who grew up on a farm putting the words "calf scours" before a color is really handy to describe a whole range of hues when talking to cattle folks.
Dallas, TX has a living history museum called Old City Park. It's called that because the land that it occupies was Dallas's first municipal park. It isn't as well known amongst locals as other more famous museums (The 6th floor, The Perot, Old Red ect.) but it is a must see for anyone who loves history. The buildings date from the 1840's to the 1920's and are all original.
@@phife1878 The neighbourhood is much safer than in years past. There's actually quite a few artist's studios around now. The reason they're not as well know is mostly down to the fact that they don't really advertise.
Faluröda (Falu-red) houses also have the perk of protecting the wood. It's not just barns though, it's for all types of houses and one of our most popular house colours to this day.
We used to come up with new color names when we got bored at work. Some of our better ones were traffic cone red, construction yellow, dollar green, bathroom green, cubicle gray, and tampon taupe.
An adult toy store in San Francisco has an Antique Vibrator Museum. The Winchester Mystery House is strange, but the supernatural mythology around it is bogus. There was no mention of any mysterious occurrences there, until it was bought by the man that opened it to the public.
Speaking of off-beat attractions, in a small town called Glover's Harbour in Newfoundland, Canada, there's a statue of a giant squid. Apparently this was erected to commemorate the appearance of a living giant squid that was found in the area in 1878. There's a small museum beside the statue with old photos and replicas of the squid's eyeballs (size of basketballs) and other handwritten accounts from fishermen at that time. The giant squids showed up one other time in the 1930's. The squid statue made it to a set of Canadian stamps that featured giant-sized road-side attractions, but it's probably the hardest to find out of all of them.
The picture used for illustration of periwinkle color is that of a nemophila (baby blue eyes) - a different plant with a completely different color shade.
Burke Museum in Seattle is super cool! You can see into the labs and watch paleontologists at work. It also has a bio-prep lab and an artist studio. :-)
Grave of King Neptune the Pig in Mount Pleasant, Illinois King Neptune was the unofficial mascot of the U.S. Navy for nearly nine years. In the early 1940s he was given as a piglet to Navy recruiter Don Lingle, who saw greater potential in the porker than just barbecue. At Illinois war bond rallies Lingle would bring out King Neptune -- dressed in a navy blue robe, a gold crown (made by an Illinois women's club), silver earrings, and painted toenails -- and "auction off" the pig to the highest bidder. In the spirit of patriotism, King Neptune's high bidders always returned him. In this way King Neptune helped raise over $19 million in war bonds during World War II. (from RoadsideAmerica)
You might be tempted to talk about the big ball of twine in Kansas, but if I can offer a more impressive feat of ingenuity; check out The Big Well in Greensburg, KS. at 32 feet wide and 109 feet deep, is allegedly the largest hand-dug well in America, accomplished completely by shovels and pickaxes. When Greensburg was hit by a tornado in 2007, the town finally replaced the old stairwell down the well, but otherwise it has remained open to the public to descend.
For New York, we have a lot. There's of course the miniature NYC at the Queens Museum from the Worlds Fair. On Long Island we have Tiny Town in Merrick, The grave of ROXY the LIRR dog in Merrick; the grave of Nixon's dog Checkers in Wantagh; the pirate house in Miller Place; Camp Siegfried (for a bad reason) in Yaphank; and tons more. Upstate there's the TeePee in the Leatherstocking District; the falls Sam Patch jumped over (and died on); the remnants of former Catskill and Adirondack tourist traps like Carson City, the Catskill Game Farm and Frontier Town; the ruins of Sharon Springs and Balston Spa; giant Nipper in Albany; last Howard Johnsons in Lake George; Comedy Museum and Lucy Museum in Jamestown; the welcome to Algoe sign in Roscoe (its a fake paper town that was on a map and its a whole story); the Cardiff Giant in Cooperstown; and of course EGGBERT at Devitts Nursery. There are loads more Jersey has the Quick Stop and Wildwood.
There's really off beat attraction in Hong Kong on a small island where there's a pirate treasure cave used by the legendary pirate Cheung Po Tsai. It is so off beat you need to hike to get there. He was such a big threat to the water of the region that the only way to stop him was for the Chinese Empire to offer him a job in the Navy. Not only was he allowed to keep all of his loot and granted amnesty for his crime, he was allowed to keep the pirate fleet he commanded and given even more Navy ships into his fleet.
As for attractions, I used to live in Washington state, and I fondly remember a place called Marsh's Free Museum in Seaside WA my family would visit when in the area. Here in Idaho, there's stuff, but what you're looking for may be Old Fort Boise's plaster statue dedicated to a large Indian marauder.
Ajo AZ features a museum perched above one of the biggest holes in the ground one is likely to see in one's lifetime. The Ajo Copper Mining Museum has been in existence since the mine shut down in the 1960s, and features photos of old mining equipment, the growth of the boom town and its subsequent decline, along with spectacular views of the 1/2 mile deep former mountain, which has been strip mined to an equal depth as it once rose above the surface. Hundreds of pieces of abandoned equipment line the spiralling, overgrown, partially-collapsed, 22-mile long path to the bottom of the pit. There's even a rockhounding area in a nearby tailings pile, though truth be told it has been hounded out for 30 years. More reckless hikers can ignore the posted warnings and explore other nearby tailings piles, but going into the actual mine is a sure way to get arrested or dead.
The puke color is probably puce, sometimes described as a dark blend of purple and brown. Puce is the French word for flea but it's not the color of the flea itself but apparently the color of a squished flea. (Ew)
Not totally familiar with NC, although there is the Stanley Rehder Carnivorous Plant Garden in Wilmington, NC. Venus flytraps are native to Wilmington and in a small area around it. This is a shallow pit with a variety of carnivorous plants, including flytraps and three or four species of pitcher plants. It is a little tricky to find but it is a very interesting place to visit. In my former state of residence, New Jersey, a state that is the only one to have an official state demon has many off beat attractions. Grounds for Sculpture-a large sculpture garden in Trenton The SS Atlantus ship wreck in Cape May-probably the more well known of the USA’s concrete ships. The state is full of strange things-so strange and weird that a magazine called Weird NJ is published twice a year to feature them.
I just found this video because I was looking for canary yellow color. Google returns a bunch of canary yellow colors, that are vastly different from one another. The same happened when I was looking for mauve, and puce. 21st century and we still can't agree how to name colors. And you haven't mentioned yet another one obscure color: mummy brown, created by grinding Egyptian mummies into a fine powder used as pigment in paints.
When in London, we visited the plaque for the Texan embassy. As in, the embassy from when Texas was a country... until they joined the US and skipped out from the embassy without paying overdue rent.
Voroneț blue - from the dominant azure blue color of medieval Voroneț Monastery (cca 1488) (often called Sistine Chapel of the East), or the blue that will last forever - still does, as vibrant as hundreds of years before; it was made with crushed azurite mixed with a mysterious substance that makes the hue lighter, more vivid, but the color composition remains unknown.
Nebraska's Wonders. I'm particular to Arbor Lodge, in Nebraska City, the Home of Arbor Day. It's the stately home of the first US SecAg who had earlier in 1872 founded the holiday. Eventually Earth Day would spin off and be set on his birthday, but the original Arbor Day is still celebrated worldwide. But perhaps that isn't niche enough. Of course there's Carhenge, but I feel that's decently well known of. The SAC Museum is mighty special - things you don't even see at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. Some of the most amazing, unique sights though are the fossils: the largest mammoth skeleton and an impressive collection of prehistoric pachyderm skeletons in Morrill Hall. But the coolest site is up at Ashfall Fossil Beds. An ancient watering hole that was the final resting spot for dozens, hundreds of prehistoric megafauna (camels, horses and rhinos who all evolved here in the Americas). They were killed in one of the largest Yellowstone eruptions, and their full skeletons and close arrangements allow a fascinating look into the past. Of course there's natural wonders like the iconic Chimney Rock or Scott's Bluff, or the Toadstools, or the somewhat quaint beauties like Indian Cave or Fort Falls. And going back to the biodiversity, instead of ancient megafauna, why not extant ones? We have what are frequently listed as the US's #1 zoo in Omaha's Henry Doorley and #1 safari park in the Simmons Wildlife Safari.
For the weird attractions in various states, please do not include Wall Drug in South Dakota, they have so many billboards on 1-90, it is effectively litter. For Nebraska, I'd recommend either Carhenge in Alliance. It is effectively Stonehenge but made by cars in the 70's. Because of how old it is, most of the cars are probably classics now. And the tires still spins, at least of of 2013. For Illinois, I'd go with Oz Park. It is on the north side of Chicago. It is a small square park with statues of the main characters of the book turned love theater musical turned movie "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." It is there to commemorate that Baum worked for a paper in the city, and while there he wrote his first few books, including, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
Illinois has a number of "off beat" attractions. I'm sure that you all have covered Metropolis, IL and the giant Superman Statue, at some point in the past. If you have, I would also suggest for you to mention "the staircase" in Galena, IL. It used to be a functional staircase for some purpose. Now it is just hundreds of steps built into the side of a large hill. People go there every summer to climb the steps but as a kid I never could figure out why.
Ohio has the former Longaberger Basket headquarters, which looks like a giant one of their baskets. Also the giant Touchdown Jesus statue, which was unfortunately destroyed by lightning in a blaze of glory (it was rebuilt but no longer looks like Jesus signaling a touchdown).
'Coolest off-beat attraction in the US' Please don't be South of the Border for South Carolina... Come to think of it, why not do the border between NC and SC via highway 49? It's a cool little quirk of geography that I drive over all the time that I still get a kick out of- you drive south to get into North Carolina, and north to get into South Carolina.
So many weird little places I've visited! Cockington Green in Canberra Australia. Its a large lawn with numerous miniature displays of verious events and scenes. It's actually adorable and really well done. In Prague, there is a sex machines museum, which shows the history of sex toys, porn, bdsm, voyeurism/peep shows, and genital shaped everyday items. They even allow people to bring their pets! The Big Poo in Kiama, NSW, Australia. Australia has a long and colourful history of "big things" to celebrate a regions local produce or industry. The Big Poo is more of a political protest though, over a sewerage company's plans on dealing with waste water. Then there is a stone in the village of Flinsberg in the region of Eichsfeld in the state of Thüringen in Germany, marking the exact middle point of Germany.
The color sedona comes from a Postmaster who named the town of Sedona, Arizona after his daughter. Then the rusty red hues got it's name due to the color of the rock formations from the town's name and thus from the name of a little girl.
Well, I've been all around this great big world and I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather go to Than the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota I said the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota!!!
All I know is that I've never seen a color like the one in my boxer shorts after I unleashed that bass heavy fart at last week's prayer breakfast. 🙏 🥞😋... 😜😖💨💩... 😳🤧 *"NUFF SAID"™️*
I'm not sure that it's quite either of our English pronunciations, but to my ear it's a bit closer to oo. See www.masteryourfrench.com/how-to-pronounce/eau/
When I lived in Seattle in the 90s I hated the constant overcast sky and came up with a new color… Headache Grey 😢
As a chronic migraine sufferer, I know this exact shade
Sorry. Michigan Sky Grey has already been in use for a long time. :)
"Tuned to a dead channel" -- as William Gibson wrote in the first sentence of _Neuromancer_
Sooo cleaver... overcast has been a color for a long time... so stupid
That grey has a bit of sick yellow in it, where I live. Good one!
There is a US 3c stamp from 1862 which is usually either "rose pink" or "pink" but also exists in a rare (and thus valuable) shade listed as "pigeon blood pink".
I find it weird that we have a colour called "Rose" because roses come in so many colours. I have suggested that the colour "rose" should be renamed "paint coloured" Then if you buy paint, you know exactly what you'll get.
Just yesterday, a friend of mine posted what she thought was the most amazing gotcha ever. She said "You think the human imagination is unlimited? Try imagining a new colour." I'm over here like "Yeah hun, just because YOU can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done. Apparently these people do it all the time. Get on THEIR level!
To be fair, though, all these colors are just fancy names given to colors that are already known. Or with blends of colors or iridescent reflections of colors we already know. Think of a cat, horse, or dog's knowledge of colors. Their rod to cone ratio allows them to see much more light than we can. They can pick up much more light in the dark than we can, but they only see mostly yellows and blues and greens. Everything else is turned into shades of browns and grays. Particularly red. That's the big one they can't see. Imagine describing red to a cat (also imagine that they can talk). Eventually, you could help them understand the gradient colors of the rainbow or visible spectrum that we know (or you could insert a magical spell that could make them see what we see). But the key words are "that we know." Could some alien species teach us humans colors they can see that we can't? What would they be? We already know how the colors blend from yellow to green, green to blue, blue to violet, violet to red, red to orange, and orange back to yellow (and all the combinations they make together like this video demonstrates). How could this alien species describe the colors they see that we can't, and what do they look like? Or do we, in fact, know them all already?
As someone who grew up on a farm putting the words "calf scours" before a color is really handy to describe a whole range of hues when talking to cattle folks.
Statues of Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as the Blues Brothers Elwood and Jake sit in their fictional hometown of Rock Island, Illinois.
Dallas, TX has a living history museum called Old City Park. It's called that because the land that it occupies was Dallas's first municipal park. It isn't as well known amongst locals as other more famous museums (The 6th floor, The Perot, Old Red ect.) but it is a must see for anyone who loves history. The buildings date from the 1840's to the 1920's and are all original.
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I went there a few times as a kid. It's not in the greatest part of town. That's probably the reason for its poor attendance.
@@phife1878 The neighbourhood is much safer than in years past. There's actually quite a few artist's studios around now. The reason they're not as well know is mostly down to the fact that they don't really advertise.
Faluröda (Falu-red) houses also have the perk of protecting the wood. It's not just barns though, it's for all types of houses and one of our most popular house colours to this day.
We used to come up with new color names when we got bored at work. Some of our better ones were traffic cone red, construction yellow, dollar green, bathroom green, cubicle gray, and tampon taupe.
An adult toy store in San Francisco has an Antique Vibrator Museum.
The Winchester Mystery House is strange, but the supernatural mythology around it is bogus. There was no mention of any mysterious occurrences there, until it was bought by the man that opened it to the public.
Speaking of off-beat attractions, in a small town called Glover's Harbour in Newfoundland, Canada, there's a statue of a giant squid. Apparently this was erected to commemorate the appearance of a living giant squid that was found in the area in 1878. There's a small museum beside the statue with old photos and replicas of the squid's eyeballs (size of basketballs) and other handwritten accounts from fishermen at that time. The giant squids showed up one other time in the 1930's. The squid statue made it to a set of Canadian stamps that featured giant-sized road-side attractions, but it's probably the hardest to find out of all of them.
The picture used for illustration of periwinkle color is that of a nemophila (baby blue eyes) - a different plant with a completely different color shade.
Seattle has the chewed bubblegum wall near Pike Place Market.
Burke Museum in Seattle is super cool! You can see into the labs and watch paleontologists at work. It also has a bio-prep lab and an artist studio. :-)
South Carolina: Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden in Bishopville, the Peachoid in Gaffney, or Atalaya Castle in Murrells Inlet.
The peachbutt gets my vote. I just left a comment hoping it's not going to be South of the Border...
Grave of King Neptune the Pig in Mount Pleasant, Illinois
King Neptune was the unofficial mascot of the U.S. Navy for nearly nine years. In the early 1940s he was given as a piglet to Navy recruiter Don Lingle, who saw greater potential in the porker than just barbecue. At Illinois war bond rallies Lingle would bring out King Neptune -- dressed in a navy blue robe, a gold crown (made by an Illinois women's club), silver earrings, and painted toenails -- and "auction off" the pig to the highest bidder. In the spirit of patriotism, King Neptune's high bidders always returned him. In this way King Neptune helped raise over $19 million in war bonds during World War II. (from RoadsideAmerica)
You might be tempted to talk about the big ball of twine in Kansas, but if I can offer a more impressive feat of ingenuity; check out The Big Well in Greensburg, KS. at 32 feet wide and 109 feet deep, is allegedly the largest hand-dug well in America, accomplished completely by shovels and pickaxes. When Greensburg was hit by a tornado in 2007, the town finally replaced the old stairwell down the well, but otherwise it has remained open to the public to descend.
Me, being a person with CVD (color vision deficiency), find dirty undergarments very disturbing.
For New York, we have a lot. There's of course the miniature NYC at the Queens Museum from the Worlds Fair. On Long Island we have Tiny Town in Merrick, The grave of ROXY the LIRR dog in Merrick; the grave of Nixon's dog Checkers in Wantagh; the pirate house in Miller Place; Camp Siegfried (for a bad reason) in Yaphank; and tons more. Upstate there's the TeePee in the Leatherstocking District; the falls Sam Patch jumped over (and died on); the remnants of former Catskill and Adirondack tourist traps like Carson City, the Catskill Game Farm and Frontier Town; the ruins of Sharon Springs and Balston Spa; giant Nipper in Albany; last Howard Johnsons in Lake George; Comedy Museum and Lucy Museum in Jamestown; the welcome to Algoe sign in Roscoe (its a fake paper town that was on a map and its a whole story); the Cardiff Giant in Cooperstown; and of course EGGBERT at Devitts Nursery. There are loads more
Jersey has the Quick Stop and Wildwood.
There's really off beat attraction in Hong Kong on a small island where there's a pirate treasure cave used by the legendary pirate Cheung Po Tsai. It is so off beat you need to hike to get there.
He was such a big threat to the water of the region that the only way to stop him was for the Chinese Empire to offer him a job in the Navy. Not only was he allowed to keep all of his loot and granted amnesty for his crime, he was allowed to keep the pirate fleet he commanded and given even more Navy ships into his fleet.
I’ve heard that in Seattle, Washington’s Magnuson Park they have an art display which is literally just a collection of Submarine parts
Laramie, Wyoming has the only prison that Butch Cassidy ever did time in. It is The Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site.
As for attractions, I used to live in Washington state, and I fondly remember a place called Marsh's Free Museum in Seaside WA my family would visit when in the area. Here in Idaho, there's stuff, but what you're looking for may be Old Fort Boise's plaster statue dedicated to a large Indian marauder.
Utah has the spiral jetty. It is in the northern part of the state about a half hour past where the transcontinental railroad met.
Ajo AZ features a museum perched above one of the biggest holes in the ground one is likely to see in one's lifetime. The Ajo Copper Mining Museum has been in existence since the mine shut down in the 1960s, and features photos of old mining equipment, the growth of the boom town and its subsequent decline, along with spectacular views of the 1/2 mile deep former mountain, which has been strip mined to an equal depth as it once rose above the surface. Hundreds of pieces of abandoned equipment line the spiralling, overgrown, partially-collapsed, 22-mile long path to the bottom of the pit. There's even a rockhounding area in a nearby tailings pile, though truth be told it has been hounded out for 30 years. More reckless hikers can ignore the posted warnings and explore other nearby tailings piles, but going into the actual mine is a sure way to get arrested or dead.
The puke color is probably puce, sometimes described as a dark blend of purple and brown. Puce is the French word for flea but it's not the color of the flea itself but apparently the color of a squished flea. (Ew)
It’s not totally off the beaten path, but the City Museum in St. Louis Missouri is incredible.
We have The Big Duck here in Flanders, Long Island. Instead of a tree lighting for Christmas, we light the duck instead. He's awesome.
For off beat attractions, the Terex titan in Sparwood B.C. Canada. It was the worlds largest truck at one point in time.
Not totally familiar with NC, although there is the Stanley Rehder Carnivorous Plant Garden in Wilmington, NC. Venus flytraps are native to Wilmington and in a small area around it. This is a shallow pit with a variety of carnivorous plants, including flytraps and three or four species of pitcher plants. It is a little tricky to find but it is a very interesting place to visit.
In my former state of residence, New Jersey, a state that is the only one to have an official state demon has many off beat attractions.
Grounds for Sculpture-a large sculpture garden in Trenton
The SS Atlantus ship wreck in Cape May-probably the more well known of the USA’s concrete ships.
The state is full of strange things-so strange and weird that a magazine called Weird NJ is published twice a year to feature them.
I just found this video because I was looking for canary yellow color. Google returns a bunch of canary yellow colors, that are vastly different from one another. The same happened when I was looking for mauve, and puce. 21st century and we still can't agree how to name colors.
And you haven't mentioned yet another one obscure color: mummy brown, created by grinding Egyptian mummies into a fine powder used as pigment in paints.
When in London, we visited the plaque for the Texan embassy. As in, the embassy from when Texas was a country... until they joined the US and skipped out from the embassy without paying overdue rent.
Sounds totally Texan.
Voroneț blue - from the dominant azure blue color of medieval Voroneț Monastery (cca 1488) (often called Sistine Chapel of the East), or the blue that will last forever - still does, as vibrant as hundreds of years before; it was made with crushed azurite mixed with a mysterious substance that makes the hue lighter, more vivid, but the color composition remains unknown.
Nebraska's Wonders.
I'm particular to Arbor Lodge, in Nebraska City, the Home of Arbor Day. It's the stately home of the first US SecAg who had earlier in 1872 founded the holiday. Eventually Earth Day would spin off and be set on his birthday, but the original Arbor Day is still celebrated worldwide.
But perhaps that isn't niche enough. Of course there's Carhenge, but I feel that's decently well known of. The SAC Museum is mighty special - things you don't even see at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. Some of the most amazing, unique sights though are the fossils: the largest mammoth skeleton and an impressive collection of prehistoric pachyderm skeletons in Morrill Hall. But the coolest site is up at Ashfall Fossil Beds. An ancient watering hole that was the final resting spot for dozens, hundreds of prehistoric megafauna (camels, horses and rhinos who all evolved here in the Americas). They were killed in one of the largest Yellowstone eruptions, and their full skeletons and close arrangements allow a fascinating look into the past.
Of course there's natural wonders like the iconic Chimney Rock or Scott's Bluff, or the Toadstools, or the somewhat quaint beauties like Indian Cave or Fort Falls. And going back to the biodiversity, instead of ancient megafauna, why not extant ones? We have what are frequently listed as the US's #1 zoo in Omaha's Henry Doorley and #1 safari park in the Simmons Wildlife Safari.
For the weird attractions in various states, please do not include Wall Drug in South Dakota, they have so many billboards on 1-90, it is effectively litter. For Nebraska, I'd recommend either Carhenge in Alliance. It is effectively Stonehenge but made by cars in the 70's. Because of how old it is, most of the cars are probably classics now. And the tires still spins, at least of of 2013. For Illinois, I'd go with Oz Park. It is on the north side of Chicago. It is a small square park with statues of the main characters of the book turned love theater musical turned movie "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." It is there to commemorate that Baum worked for a paper in the city, and while there he wrote his first few books, including, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
Illinois has a number of "off beat" attractions. I'm sure that you all have covered Metropolis, IL and the giant Superman Statue, at some point in the past. If you have, I would also suggest for you to mention "the staircase" in Galena, IL. It used to be a functional staircase for some purpose. Now it is just hundreds of steps built into the side of a large hill. People go there every summer to climb the steps but as a kid I never could figure out why.
Tennessee (specifically Chattanooga) hosts the INTERNATIONAL towing museum, because tow trucks were invented there!
You forgot PUCE lol (I Love to Color · Joe Wise)
I used to live around the corner from harriet beecher stowes house in cincy
Collinsville in Illinois claims to have the world’s largest catsup (its spelling, not mine) bottle: an old water tower.
Frankenmuth in Michigan has the world's largest Christmas store
New Bern, North Carolina’s Kicking Machine.
There is a tree growing out of the roof of the courthouse in Greensburg, Indiana.
See banana, eat banana. Too bad I am on dialysis, huh?
Never heard the French word "eau" pronounce "ooo," as it was pronounced in "eau de nil." Usually, it's pronounced, "oh," to simplify it.
About #11: the French word eau is pronounced like the o in go, not like the oo in good (and French "Nil" is more like kneel than nil).
Have you heard of the gopher museum in Torrington, Alberta
Hahah incredible question. Sadly, the answer is no, but happily that changed today.
The Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry is here in Baltimore.
Puke in a violet hue.... _puce,_ perhaps? Sounds likely!
Salvation Mountain - Niland, California
Ohio has the former Longaberger Basket headquarters, which looks like a giant one of their baskets. Also the giant Touchdown Jesus statue, which was unfortunately destroyed by lightning in a blaze of glory (it was rebuilt but no longer looks like Jesus signaling a touchdown).
Tbh i love xanadu and periwinkle
That's really cool
Munich, Germany has a spork museum...
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma has Factory Obscura
'Coolest off-beat attraction in the US'
Please don't be South of the Border for South Carolina...
Come to think of it, why not do the border between NC and SC via highway 49? It's a cool little quirk of geography that I drive over all the time that I still get a kick out of- you drive south to get into North Carolina, and north to get into South Carolina.
Incarnadine: washing the blood from his hands so they are flesh colored again.
Knoebels in elysport Pennsylvania
the umbrella cover museum on peaks island, me
Cabazon Dinosaurs - Cabazon, California
Official Center of the World - Felicity, California
RGB, HSV, LAB, Pantone, CMYK...
magenta is pink trying to be purple.
So many weird little places I've visited! Cockington Green in Canberra Australia. Its a large lawn with numerous miniature displays of verious events and scenes. It's actually adorable and really well done. In Prague, there is a sex machines museum, which shows the history of sex toys, porn, bdsm, voyeurism/peep shows, and genital shaped everyday items. They even allow people to bring their pets! The Big Poo in Kiama, NSW, Australia. Australia has a long and colourful history of "big things" to celebrate a regions local produce or industry. The Big Poo is more of a political protest though, over a sewerage company's plans on dealing with waste water. Then there is a stone in the village of Flinsberg in the region of Eichsfeld in the state of Thüringen in Germany, marking the exact middle point of Germany.
Abita Mystery House in Louisiana
The color sedona comes from a Postmaster who named the town of Sedona, Arizona after his daughter. Then the rusty red hues got it's name due to the color of the rock formations from the town's name and thus from the name of a little girl.
Well, I've been all around this great big world and I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather go to
Than the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota
I said the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota!!!
Winchester Mystery House
Xanadu is my cat’s name
Eau (l'eau / French for "water") is pronouced "oh" (l'oh)... NOT "ew"
oregon sea lion caves
A lot of these colours seem to just be grey haha
All I know is that I've never seen a color like the one in my boxer shorts after I unleashed that bass heavy fart at last week's prayer breakfast. 🙏 🥞😋... 😜😖💨💩... 😳🤧
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I thought the French word eau was pronounced _oh_ and not _oo_
I'm not sure that it's quite either of our English pronunciations, but to my ear it's a bit closer to oo. See www.masteryourfrench.com/how-to-pronounce/eau/
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What the heck is blue?
A tiny part of me was hoping to see a colour I've never seen 🤡
Please don't do cornhenge for ohio.. PLEASE 🤣. Look into the dancing hares!
Isabella - ew.
Correct.