500 Places to See Before They Disappear From The Map

The Merritt Parkway

past Route 66 and many of its wonderfully restore it. Traveling the road today, you’ll
kitschy businesses. In some cases the go from large cities where signs marking
signs remain, but the buildings themselves the route are few to small towns and grass
are just memories. Buildings still standing prairies. If you have the itch to hit the road,
are vulnerable to vandalism, decay, and get started by visiting nps.gov (see its
abandonment, and some communities website below), where you’ll find maps,
along the route have simply disappeared. itineraries, and a list of highlights in each
state. There’s still time to get your kicks on
Luckily, there is still a lot to love about Route 66!
this historic 2,000-mile (3,200km) high-
way, and in 2008 it was added to the e www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/route66
World Monuments watch list, which is sup-
porting several projects to preserve and

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The Merritt Parkway

Gateway to New England

Fairfield County, Connecticut

Running through Connecticut’s most populous county, this National Scenic

Byway is losing its distinctive beauty, through bridge decay, degraded landscape, and

poor maintenance.

Back in the early 1930s, automobile cul- on 69 graceful bridges. It was these
ture was still new and thrilling. Running 37 bridges that really made the Merritt spe-
miles (60km) from suburban Greenwich to cial. Inspired by the City Beautiful move-
Stratford, Connecticut, the Merritt Park- ment, architect George L. Dunkelberger’s
way followed a new paradigm for highway bridges were all different, individually
design, pioneered by New York State’s styled in Art Deco, neoclassical, French
recently built Bronx River, Saw Mill River, Renaissance, Gothic, or rustic designs.
and Hutchinson River parkways. Envi- Elegant sculptures, bas-reliefs, and fanci-
sioned as a “ribbon park,” it would have no ful wrought iron decorated their arches
roadside billboards. It would be only for and supports.
passenger cars—no heavy trucks, bicy-
cles, pedestrians, or horse buggies. The It was one of the great Depression-era
four lanes of traffic— two in each direc- public works projects, providing much-
tion—would be divided by a parklike strip needed jobs for 6 years. And when the
of greenery; dense bushes and trees first leg opened in 1938, public acclaim
would screen the highway from the towns confirmed it: A highway could be a work of
it passed through. Occasional open vistas art. (It’s one of the few roads listed on the
were showcased, and landscaping would National Register of Historic Places.)
provide seasonal interest—flowering
trees in spring, deciduous hardwood for As time passed, however, automobile
fall color, evergreens for winter cover. culture got bigger and cruder. The inter-
state highways of the 1960s introduced
Connecticut residents, worried about straighter lines, minimal landscaping, and
an influx of New York traffic, were mollified higher speeds. Nowadays, drivers accus-
by on- and off-ramps that limited intersec- tomed to those multilane behemoths reck-
tions with local roads. Instead, the Merritt lessly navigate the Merritt’s narrow lanes,
would fly over roads or glide under them, tight shoulders, and short entry ramps,
gunning past its stop-sign entrances to

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merge aggressively into traffic. (The Mer- to restore the Merritt: cleaning and repair-
ritt’s lower 55-mile-per-hour speed limit is ing bridges, replanting dogwoods and
rarely observed.) Many ramps had to be mountain laurels, clearing invasive plants
redesigned; metal guardrails were erected and vines, and opening a small parkway
on the median strip or the shoulder, as museum in Stratford (6580 Main St.), along
well as hulking cast-concrete barriers. with legal and political advocacy. Much
Newer expressways introduced utilitarian remains to be done, but the Merritt’s story
overpasses of blank concrete and steel; may have a happy ending after all.
three of the original bridges were torn
down, and others were redesigned. For e www.merrittparkway.org
driver safety, road crews have widened its
shoulders and cleared mature trees. From New York City
1939 to 1988, the Merritt had one toll-
booth, but these days it depends for $$ The Roger Sherman Inn, 195
upkeep on the underfunded Connecticut
Department of Transportation, and main- Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan (& 203/966-
tenance has been shoddy.
4541; www.rogershermaninn.com). $$
Enter the not-for-profit Merritt Parkway The Westport Inn, 1595 Post Road E.,
Conservancy, which since 1999 has worked
Westport (& 800/446-8997 or 203/418-

2500; www.westportinn.com).

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The Oldest McDonald’s

Speeder the Chef’s Drive-In

Downey, California

This iconic retro McDonald’s nearly fell in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Preservations sought to save it, and eventually the franchise decided to restore it to its

original kitschy glory.

This burger shack in Downey wasn’t the bolo ties. Strictly a walk-up restaurant (no
McDonald brothers’ first restaurant (that PlayPlace here), it has outdoor tables
was a hot dog stand in Arcadia), the first where you can take your burger and milk-
place where they pioneered their “fast shake after you’ve ordered your food at
food” assembly-line operation (that would the window. The roadside marquee is
have been their San Bernardino burger hard to miss, with its 60-foot-high (18m)
bar), or even the first of their restaurants neon-outlined figure of a chipper charac-
to have golden arches in its design (that ter named Speedee the Chef, the chain’s
was in Phoenix). But when this site—their long-retired early mascot, Ronald McDon-
fourth franchise outlet—opened in 1953, ald’s great-grand-daddy.
the formula was finally set, and this loca-
tion has remained in business ever since— A year after this restaurant opened, a
the oldest McDonald’s still in operation. milkshake-machine salesman named Ray
Kroc saw the potential in the McDonald
There’s something weirdly familiar and brothers’ formula, bought out their little
yet strange about its vintage red-and- chain, and the rest is history. The Downey
white-striped tile exterior and the pair of restaurant is our last reminder of the mod-
parabolic golden arches supporting its ern megachain’s simple beginnings. After
roof. The employees wear ’50s-vintage it was damaged in the 1994 Northridge
uniforms with white shirts, paper hats, and earthquake, this outlet—which had been

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losing money—was nearly closed down. Googie Design
Historic preservationists fought to keep it,
and eventually in 1996 the McDonald’s e Historic Speedee McDonald’s,
corporation woke up to an opportunity to 10207 Lakewood Blvd. (& 562/622-9248)
honor its own past. Refurbishment restored
the historic features, and a museum and Los Angeles International
gift shop were added (displays of vintage
Happy Meal toys, anyone?). However you $$ Beverly Garland’s Holiday Inn,
feel about the parent chain, there’s some- 4222 Vineland Ave., North Hollywood
thing undeniably fascinating about seeing ([tell] 800/BEVERLY [238-3759] or 818/
its 1950s incarnation, from long before the 980-8000; www.beverlygarland.com). $$
fast-food concept supersized into some- Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, 7000 Holly-
thing entirely different.
wood Blvd. (& 800/950-7667 or 323/466-

7000; www.hollywoodroosevelt.com).

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Googie Design

Cruising Space-Age Googieland

Orange County, California

For years serious architects looked down on Googie architecture, with all its

pop-culture-styled curves and cantilevers and bold colors. Today preservationists are

scrambling to save what’s left.

A close cousin of New Jersey’s Doo-Wop as well, with Sputnik-shaped signs and
style, even in its 1950s Southern California launchpadlike roofs. Starbursts, boomer-
heyday Googie architecture was considered angs, and amoebas replaced rectilinear
way too commercial, a design style fit only forms; cartoonish lettering replaced formal
for bowling alleys, motels, coffee shops, typefaces on signs. Neon was an essential
strip malls, liquor stores, and car washes— ingredient; so were chrome details (not
surely not anything with substance. surprising, in midcentury car culture) and
Formica and fiberglass accents in bold col-
Well, times change, tastes change; ors. Advances in plate-glass technology
G­ oogie design now has picked up a gloss allowed vast expanses of windows, too,
of hipster cachet. Unfortunately, most of it making the most of California’s sunshine in
was carelessly razed in the past few those presmog years. Postwar fascination
decades as road construction and subur- with South American and South Pacific
ban redevelopment spiraled in Orange motifs was thrown in as well, courtesy of
County. the many returning servicemen who set-
tled in sunny Southern California.
The name “Googie” was eventually
applied to the whole movement, derived The Anaheim Convention Center in
from the inventive design of Googie’s Cof- Anaheim (800 W. Katella) is a big-scale
fee Shop at Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Googie example, its domed white roofline
Heights in Los Angeles. The hotbed of Goo- and swoops of glass looking distinctly fly-
gie, though, was here in Orange County, ing-saucer-like. Take Katella east to State
where a late-1950s real estate boom was College Boulevard and go south 2 blocks
jump-started by Disneyland’s 1955 open- to Angel Stadium, where a tall green road-
ing. The futuristic promise of Tomorrow- side sign with a rakish halo sets a Googie
land echoed over and over outside the park
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keynote for the ballpark. Then retrace still there, but every year, you have to look
your route on Katella west to South Harbor harder and harder.
Boulevard, turn right, and cruise north-
ward to Lincoln Avenue; head west on John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana
Lincoln to Brookhurst, turn right and go
south on Brookhurst to Garden Grove Bou- $$$ Disney’s Grand Californian
levard, where a left-hand turn will take you
east back to Harbor Boulevard. These are Hotel, 1600 S. Disneyland Dr. (& 714/
all traffic-clogged major thoroughfares—
exactly where you can still hope to find a 956-MICKEY [956-6425] or 714/635-2300;
few roadside signs and small businesses www.disneyland.com). $$ Candy Cane
that sport the vintage Googie look. They’re
Inn, 1747 S. Harbor Blvd. (& 800/345-

7057 or 714/774-5284; www.candycane
inn.net).

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Paul Bunyan Statues

Roadside Giants

Minnesota Lake Country

While roadside kitsch seems to be disappearing across the country, it’s still alive

and well along the secondary highways of northern Minnesota. Here is where the legend

of Paul Bunyan resides.

It seems that every small Midwestern Brainerd, in fact, has established itself as
town has some plaster or fiberglass animal the anchor for a 100-mile (161km) paved
mounted on a pole outside of town—a Paul Bunyan Trail that winds through lake
rainbow trout, a beaver, a moose—to country. And some 70 miles (113km) far-
proclaim itself to visitors. But why mess ther upstate, in the town of Akeley, on Main
around with a mere animal when you Street you’ll find the next Paul Bunyan
could have the North Woods’ most endur- statue, a really big one—he’d be 25 feet
ing legend—the King of the Lumberjacks, (7.6m) tall if he stood up. Instead he
Paul Bunyan, and his big blue ox, Babe? crouches down kindly, resting his ax beside
him, with his hand gently cupped to hold
You really know you’ve hit the North tourists for photo ops. The black beard on
Woods when you arrive in Brainerd, Minne- this one is seriously impressive.
sota, and see the 111⁄2-foot-tall (3.5m) fiber-
glass Paul Bunyan statue beside the tourist Forty miles (64km) north of Akeley, you
information stand on Highway 371 just come to Bemidji—purportedly Bunyan’s
south of town. Brainerd’s city fathers appar- birthplace—where the granddaddy of all
ently aren’t too cool for the old Bunyan Paul Bunyan statues stands downtown,
image, because they commissioned this next to the tourist office, on the pine-
statue recently, after failing to acquire a edged shore of Lake Bemidji (created, so
much larger seated Paul Bunyan figure from the folklore goes, by one of Paul’s foot-
the now-defunct Paul Bunyan Center. That prints). Eastman Kodak once named this
statue wound up at This Old Farm, 17553 America’s second-most-photographed
roadside icon, a classic piece of Ameri-
Hwy. 18, Brainerd (& 218/764-2524), an cana erected in 1937. This rather crude
Paul Bunyan figure stands 18 feet (5.5m)
endearing mishmash of old-style attractions high and weighs 21⁄2 tons; oddly, instead of
which combines a restored 1940s farm, a
corn maze, an arcade (where Paul sits), and
a small ho-hum amusement park.

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Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.

the classic black beard, he has a Snidely- e Visit Bemidji, Paul Bunyan Dr., Bemidji,
MN (& 218/759-0164; www.visitbemidji.
Whiplash-like handlebar mustache. Next
com)
to him stands a 5-ton Babe the Blue Ox.
Brainerd Regional Airport, Bemidji
There’s also a Paul Bunyan Amusement Regional Airport

Park beside the statues, and south of town $$ Hampton Inn, 1019 Paul Bunyan
is the Paul Bunyan Animal Farm, 3857
Dr. S., Bemidji (& 800/426-7866 or 218/
Animal Land Dr. (& 218/759-1533), a small
751-3600; http://hamptoninn1.hilton.com).
petting zoo. It might as well cash in on the $ AmericInn, 1200 Paul Bunyan Dr. NW,

name—everybody else up here does! Bemidji (& 800/634-3444 or 218/751-3000).

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The Red Routemaster

Double-Decker Tradition

London, England

For half a century, the red double-decker buses trundling around London were a

visible symbol of the city. Accessibility requirements, fuel efficiency, and emission stan-
dards rendered the Routemasters obsolete. Now only two heritage routes are still using
these wonderful old buses.

True, by the dawn of the 21st century the new public-transport standards—they
red Routemasters were inadequate for couldn’t accommodate wheelchairs, and

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10 Signs That Go Blink in the Night

The beauty of the neon sign was that you could twist those glass tubes into
any shape you wanted. And as America took to the highways in the 1950s and
1960s, advertisers took advantage of that, spangling the nighttime streetscape
with colorful whimsies touting everything from bowling alleys to ice-cream stands
to Tiki bars.
Good old-fashioned neon lighting has been outmoded by fiber-optic technol-
ogy. The good news is that preservationists are working to save neon signs for future
generations, either on-site or in museums. After all, what would America be without
a few giant neon donuts around?

Electric City, Scranton, Pennsylvania  In 1910, in the pre-neon age, this
flashing electric circular sign was erected eight stories high atop the steep-gabled
Victorian-era Scranton Electric Building proclaiming Scranton as the electric city. Its
purpose: to promote the fact that Scranton was the first U.S. city to install electric
streetcars. The sign went dark in 1972, but it was restored and relit in 2004. & 570/­

963-5901.

The Stinker Station, Twin Falls, Idaho  Opened in 1936, this Idaho gas sta-
tion chain made the most of its era’s penchant for whimsical roadside advertising.
Original owner Farris Lind based his success on low prices that undersold the com-
petition, so naturally he developed as his mascot a black-and-white neon skunk.
There are still neon skunks adorning a few outlets around the state, but the biggest
and best is at 1777 Kimberly Rd. in Twin Falls. & 208/734-6560.

The East Gate, Los Angeles, California  This pagoda-shaped California
landmark turns on enough lights to illuminate a small town in China. It opened in
1938 in Los Angeles in an enclave modeled by a Hollywood set designer to serve
Chinese Americans displaced by the building of Union Station. The East Gate was the
entrance to a mini-mall that housed 18 stores (now known as Old Chinatown Plaza,
1100 N. Broadway). There are other vintage neon buildings on-site, making it a bright
destination for travelers stopping in Los Angeles. www.oldchinatownla.com.

Leon’s Frozen Custard, Milwaukee, Wisconsin  It’s said that this vintage
burger and custard stand at 3131 S. 27th St., opened in 1942, was the model for Al’s
Diner in the TV show Happy Days. While other local eateries dispute this fact, this
Milwaukee landmark with its radiating strips of neon under the carports and its
unmissable roadside marquee is worth visiting just for the signage, though the burg-
ers and malts are a delicious bonus. & 414/383-1784.

Superdawg Drive-In, Chicago, Illinois  With its neon-studded canopies, the
Superdawg drive-in—founded in 1948 at 6363 N. Milwaukee Ave.—features more
than a delicious snack: It’s a local landmark, known for the two tall hot dogs cavort-
ing on its roof. The male hot dog is for some reason wearing a loincloth. Modesty,

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perhaps? Whatever the reason, this drive-in’s an excellent example of mascots gone
wild. www.superdawg.com.

The Seven Dwarfs, Wheaton, Illinois  Though several tubes are burned
out, the fabulous neon sign at the Seven Dwarfs Restaurant and Fountain, 917 E.
Roosevelt Rd., still welcomes customers with a friendly waving pig wearing a chef’s
hat. As for Snow White and the dwarfs, they show up on murals inside this friendly-
family diner. & 630/653-7888.

The Elephant Car Wash, Seattle,
Washington  With 380 blinking lights, the
big pink elephant in the jaunty hat on the
Elephant Car Wash sign at 616 Battery St. in
downtown Seattle has been a source of
delight since the early 1950s. Although the
carwash chain now has nine locations in
the Seattle area, the downtown branch is
the one with that iconic revolving sign. www.

elephantcarwash.com.

Rancho Grande Mexican Restaurant,
Tulsa, Oklahoma  Along Route 66—a
grand thoroughfare of neon signage during
its heyday—several fascinating neon relics
remain. One of these is at the entrance of the
Mexican restaurant at 1629 E. 11th St., Route The Elephant Car Wash.
66’s in-town route through Tulsa. Built in
1953, it features a dapper black-hatted caballero slinging a yellow neon lasso around
the name of the restaurant. & 918/584-0816.

Western Hills Motel, Flagstaff, Arizona  Neon was the perfect medium for
beckoning weary drivers off the road at night into roadside motels. Farther west
along Route 66, this low-slung fieldstone motel (with a pool!) is still in operation at
1580 E. Rte. 66 behind its classic roadside marquee featuring a red covered wagon
and horses, which apparently were once animated. The name of the motel glows
blue above the unmistakably huge word “motel” in yellow. & 928/774-6633.

Crescent Bowl, Bowling Green, Kentucky  In a town named Bowling
Green, you’d expect a few bowling alleys, right? Well, bowling is by no means as
popular a sport as it was in the mid–20th century, and those old lanes are fast disap-
pearing, along with their vintage neon signs. This old-school establishment at 2724
Nashville Rd. may have seen better days inside, but outside a vintage bowling-
themed sign glows for all to see. & 270/843-6021.

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they required new engines for fuel effi- around 1,000 were still running in 2005.
ciency and emission controls. Neverthe- They were largely replaced by long, articu-
less, it seemed unthinkable that they lated buses, slower and heavier than
should be withdrawn from service entirely Routemasters and much less adept at
by 2006. On the last day of service, steering around the London street maze
December 9, 2005, so many people lined (but easier for fare skippers to slip onto).
the final route that traffic was stopped
completely, making the usually timely bus The outcry over the withdrawal of the
10 minutes late in reaching its garage. Routemaster was so great that the former
London Mayor Ken Livingstone agreed to
The Routemaster was, in fact, a classic keep them on two short versions of regu-
piece of British design, superbly fitted to lar routes, called Heritage Routes: Route 9,
carry a maximum of passengers and still a 5km (3-mile) route which runs from Royal
negotiate London’s narrow, winding Albert Hall to Aldwych via Hyde Park cor-
streets. Built of durable but light aluminum ner and Piccadilly Circus, and Route 15,
and easy to repair, it featured a rear open between Trafalgar Square and Tower Hill
platform that made it easy to hop on and via St. Paul’s Church and Charing Cross.
off, although that feature also increased Between these two routes, a significant
labor costs, requiring a ticket-taking con- number of tourist destinations will still be
ductor on the bus as well as a driver. Not served by the red double-deckers.
all were red, in fact; several green
Routemasters were also in operation, Heathrow International
mostly on outlying routes.
$$ Mornington Hotel, 12 Lancaster
By the time of its demise, the Route-
master had already been replaced on Gate, Bayswater (& 800/633-6548 in
many routes by single-level buses, and
some were converted to private sightsee- North America or 44/20/7262-7361; www.
ing operations with an open top deck (not bw-morningtonhotel.co.uk). $$ Sanctu-
practical otherwise—England is, after all, ary House Hotel, 33 Tothill St., Westmin-
a country where it rains frequently). In all,
nearly 3,000 Routemasters were built, and ster (& 44/20/7799-4044; www.fullers

hotels.com).

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Milestone Motel

An Overnight Sensation

San Luis Obispo, California

Closed in 1991, now empty and neglected, the first motor inn still retains the

design that has inspired roadside motels across the United States.

Architecturally, there’s nothing distin- and San Francisco would have seen it as a
guished about this low-slung set of stucco rare destination, exactly halfway up the
buildings, a vague pastiche of Mission coast and located right on Highway 101
architecture with a three-story tower (the same El Camino Real route used by
meant to evoke the Santa Barbara mis- California’s early Spanish settlers). It was
sion’s famous bell tower. But back in 1926, neither a traditional hotel nor one of the
motorists traveling between Los Angeles rustic campgrounds that had recently

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begun to sprout around gas stations in the Though it was originally named the Mile-
infancy of America’s automotive age. This stone Mo-Tel, the motel was renamed the
place even had a new sort of name: a Motor Inn and had become severely run-
motor hotel—or, to fit better on a road- down by the time it closed in 1991. Since
side sign, a “mo-tel.” then it has sat empty, with boarded-up
windows and a chain-link fence hung with
As the bronze plaque on its front wall yellow warning signs surrounding the site.
attests, architect Arthur Heineman gets (It can be viewed, though, from The Apple
full credit for inventing the motel concept. Farm Inn, located next door.) Various own-
His location was ideal: at the midway point ers have proposed plans for a face-lift that
in San Luis Obispo, right beside Highway never comes to fruition. Parts have already
101, the main north-south road in those been demolished and others may soon go
days. (It was also at the north end of Mon- from sheer dilapidation; bringing the motel
terey St., up the road from where San Luis up to current building code would most
Obispo’s own historic Spanish mission was likely be prohibitively expensive by this
located.) It cost $80,000 to build; guests time. Even from outside the fence, though,
were charged a stiff $1.25 a night for a you can see that classic design, adapted
two-room bungalow with a kitchenette, an over the years to thousands of Travel-
indoor bathroom (with a shower!), and Lodges and Motel 6s and other roadside
parking conveniently located right outside lodgings across the country. Heineman’s
the room. All the bungalows faced onto a brainstorm was an idea that worked.
central palm-lined courtyard with a pool
and picnic tables. It combined a certain e 2223 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo
level of swanky comfort (car owners in the
1920s were, after all, among the more San Luis Obispo
affluent citizens) with car-friendly effi-
ciency. A restaurant and dance hall were $$$ Apple Farm Inn, 2015 Monterey
included in the complex as well. Plans
were to erect a whole chain of Milestone St., San Luis Obispo (& 805/544-2040;
Motels up and down the California coast;
the Depression, however, put an end to www.applefarm.com). $$ Garden Street
that scheme.
Inn, 1212 Garden St. (& 800/488-2045 or

805/545-9802; www.gardenstreetinn.
com).

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Century Plaza Hotel

Saved from the Ball & Chain

Los Angeles, California

Just a couple of years ago things looked bleak for the Century Plaza Hotel, but

thanks to the efforts of the Los Angeles Conservancy, this glamorous landmark has been

saved from the wrecking ball. Yet changes to its surroundings and the hotel itself have

compromised its integrity.

At the heart of Century City in Los Angeles design the World Trade Center, it was
is the Century Plaza Hotel, a breathtaking completed in 1964, fronted by spectacular
19-story curved glass hotel that is the fountains on the Avenue of Stars. Century
epitome of 1960s modernism. Designed City itself was designed as a business
by Minoru Yamasaki, who went on to mecca, and many lawyers and executives

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The Century Plaza Hotel.

active in the film industry keep offices fate might face the Century Plaza Hotel,
there. Soon it became a beloved tourist when owners announced that they would
sight as well as a destination spot for raze the building to make way for two new
presidents and celebrities. towers. Luckily, this elicited outrage from
local groups and preservationists, and,
Once known as the “West Coast White that same year, the building was named
House,” Century City Plaza served as a one of America’s 11 Most Endangered
home away from home for Presidents Historic Places by the National Trust for
Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Historic Preservation. But not all of the
Ford, and George Bush, who bunked there news is good for this great landmark: Pro-
whenever they visited Los Angeles. Presi- posed development includes two 46-story
dent Bill Clinton, who usually liked to stay skyscrapers to be built behind the hotel,
with friends in the area, would also occa- which will change the landscape dramati-
sionally check in. Century Plaza played cally. Worse yet, a large portion of the
host to many social events and award lobby will be hollowed out to connect the
dinners over the years, attracting Holly- new buildings, shops, and plazas with
wood elite like Cary Grant, Tom Hanks, and nearby streets.
Sharon Stone, to name just a few. In 1969,
Nixon chose the hotel to host a party for The hotel is currently operating as a
the Apollo 11 astronauts, celebrating their Hyatt Regency, welcoming guests to this
historic trip to the moon. once-endangered architectural treasure.
Hey, if you can’t be a star, you can live like
Until recently, the hotel was directly one. To book a stay, check out the website
across from ABC Entertainment Center below.
and the Shubert Theater, both casualties
of the wrecking ball. In their place is the $$$ Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
2000 Wilshire project that stands between
the Avenue and Century City’s twin tow- (& 310/228-1234; www.centuryplaza.
ers. In 2009, it was feared that a similar
hyatt.com)

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Doo-Wop Motels

Catch the Kitsch

Wildwood, New Jersey

The panorama of the Wildwood Strip is like a low-rent version of early Las Vegas.

But with many of those classic 1950s hotels already demolished, this corner of the Jersey

shore is a last holdout of the Rat Pack signature style.

By the mid–20th century, it wasn’t enough In Wildwood Crest, the Caribbean
for a motel just to have a room with an Motel (5600 Ocean Ave.; www.caribbean
attached bathroom, a parking space, and motel.com) has a traffic-stopping sign in
a pool; the joint had to have a theme. And red neon script, a swooping front ramp,
along this strip of beach towns on the and fake palm trees by the pool. Then
south Jersey Shore, the wackier the there’s the Royal Hawaiian, which looks
theme, the better. Jazz it up with pulsating like a flying saucer landed atop a massive
neon, accent it with bright paint schemes, tiki hut with lava rock walls (500 E. Orchid
throw in zigzag rooflines and balconies, Rd.; www.royalhawaiianresort.com). A
and slap on free-form arches, fins, and swashbuckling pirate strides over the yel-
boomerangs, and there you’d have it: a low neon sign above the entrance of the
Doo-Wop motel. Jolly Roger (6805 Atlantic Ave.; www.jolly
rogermotel.com), while knights and coats
A pack of these classic Doo-Wop motels of arms adorn the facade of the Crusader
still stand, officially recognized by the Motel (Cardinal Rd. and Beach). Follow
State of New Jersey as the Wildwoods Ocean Avenue north into Wildwood to see
Shore Resort Historic District. Ocean Ave- the Starlux, a silver-sheathed Space Age
nue in Wildwood Crest is the main drag, beauty with a soaring, glass-walled lobby
lined today with more than 50 vintage (305 E. Rio Grande; www.thestarlux.com),
motels. But another 50 or so were knocked and roll on into North Wildwood to see the
down quite recently, between 2000 and futuristic arched carports and cool blue
2005, victims of the area’s real estate neon signs of the Chateau Bleu (911 Surf
boom. Historic preservationists in the area Ave.) and the classic Candyland-ish sign of
are vigilant about protecting what’s left. the Lollipop Motel (23rd and Atlantic
aves.).
The Wildwood resort area really took
off in the 1950s as the new Garden State Though some properties on the Wild-
Parkway made this coastal strip easily wood Strip look a little faded, others have
accessible to vacationers from New York been spruced up, attracting a whole new
City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Though generation of urban hipsters.
the basic motel layout was the same, each
establishment tried to lure motorists with e Greater Wildwoods Tourism
color, light, and snazzy themes tied to pop
songs, exotic travel destinations, and ’50s Improvement and Development
movie extravaganzas. (Wildwood also bills
itself as the birthplace of rock ’n’ roll Authority (& 800/WW-BY-SEA [992-
because Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the
Clock” was recorded here.) 9732]; www.wildwoodsnj.com)

Atlantic City or Philadelphia

451

Disposable Culture

Vintage Hotels & Motels 499

Gulf Boulevard’s Vintage Motels

Retro by the Seaside

Treasure Island, Florida

Gulf Boulevard’s vintage motels sport eye-catching neon signs and sun-kissed

charm. They were hit in the early 2000s condo boom and the few buildings that survived

now share space with modern structures.

Back in the 1950s, trying to cash in on the condo towers. The first significant loss
post-war automotive travel boom, some was the stylishly angular Surf Motel in
civic booster for this 31⁄2-mile-long (5.6km) 2004, but more followed.
Gulf Coast barrier island dreamed up a
corny marketing stunt: Bury a couple These Gulf Boulevard motels may not
chests full of money in the pearly white be as architecturally goofy as their con-
sand and let some tourists dig them up. temporaries on the Jersey Shore—their
Cheesy as the stunt was, it worked—and basic shapes are simpler and sturdier,
the island got a new name out of it. built to withstand the occasional hurri-
cane—but instead of razzmatazz, each
Connected to the St. Petersburg penin- motel offers its own pastel color scheme,
sula by three classic Art Moderne cause- neat landscaping, pool, striped beach
way bridges, this beachside community umbrellas and chaise longues, and in
developed fast in the 1950s. Two-story many cases a shuffleboard court. Though
stucco motels popped up all along Gulf most are air-conditioned, they still have
Boulevard, their rooms overlooking central casement windows that you can open to
courtyards dominated by palm-shaded, tur- catch gulf breezes. Vintage neon signs
quoise swimming pools. Across the street, have been preserved outside a few of the
gulf beaches beckoned with their soft motels, notably the Sands Beach Resort
sands and amazing sunset views. and the Thunderbird. The palm trees
here are real, and brilliant hibiscus spills
But then development blossomed else- from the planters.
where—farther south, in Naples, Sanibel,
and Fort Myers, and then in central Flor- But walk along the beach and you’ll see
ida, around Orlando. Busch Gardens went the beachfront skyline disrupted more and
up in northeast Tampa. For years, all the more by condo towers. The essential char-
action seemed to be somewhere else, and acter of Treasure Island already seems
Treasure Island got left behind. No devel- lost, but enough may be left to turn back
opers came along to raze those vintage the clock.
mom-and-pop motels and replace them
with chain lodgings, and they never lost e www.treasureislandflorida.org
their ocean views and beach access.
Tampa International
So far, so good, until the early 2000s,
when property values soared and a wave $ The Sands Beach Resort, 11800
of condo fever hit Treasure Island. Though
local zoning laws permit buildings to be Gulf Blvd. (& 727/367-1969; www.sand
only five stories high—that’s a lot higher
than these classic motels—many motel softreasureisland.com). $$ Thunderbird
owners, faced with the high costs of main-
taining aging buildings, allowed their Beach Resort, 10700 Gulf Blvd. (& 800/
motels to be replaced with boxy five-story
367-2473; www.thunderbirdflorida.com).

$ Tahitian Resort, 11320 Gulf Blvd. (& 888/

606-5809 or 727/360-6264; www.tahitian
resort.com).

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Wigwam Motels

500 Vintage Hotels & Motels

Wigwam Motels

Teepee Time

Kentucky/Arizona/California

In the 1930s and 1940s, seven Wigwam Villages were built across America;

today only three of these quirky lodgings remain.

Frank Redford was so fascinated with Indi- the cone-shaped huts, and diamond-
ans that he decided to build a chain of shaped windows were discreetly spaced
wigwam-shaped motor courts across around the base (real teepees, of course,
America. True, the shape he actually used don’t have windows). The original exterior
for his tiny tourist cabins wasn’t a wigwam design also featured red swastikas, a tradi-
at all, it was a teepee. But as wacky road- tional Indian motif, but when that symbol
side themes went out of style, these curi- became associated with Nazi Germany in
osities became anachronisms. the late 1930s, the swastikas were painted
over. A 50-foot-tall (15m) teepee contains
Like many other such establishments the motel office/gift shop/restaurant;
built in the dawn of the automobile travel guest teepees are clustered around a cen-
age, the 1930s and 1940s, Redford’s Wig- tral court (the California one has a kidney-
wam Villages offered overnight guests shaped swimming pool). The California
privacy with tiny separate lodgings, and Kentucky motels have been updated
marked by kitschy themes that empha- with satellite TV and Internet access, but
sized the character of the region. In the the Arizona branch—run by the same fam-
end, only seven Wigwam Villages were ily that’s owned it since the late 1940s—
built, but cramped and quirky as they are, doesn’t even have phones in the rooms.
they have so much character that three Both the Kentucky and the Arizona Wig-
remain perfectly preserved today. wam Villages still boast the original
1930s-vintage cane-and-hickory lodge-
Redford’s first village went up in 1934 pole-style furnishings.
near Horse City, Kentucky, built to house
his collection of Native American relics. Be sure to reserve well in advance if you
Intrigued (obsessed, frankly) with his idea, want to stay in these teepee lodgings. The
he patented the design in 1937, closed the rooms may be tiny and inconvenient, the
small Horse City site, and built a larger kitschy Indian theme politically incorrect,
Wigwam Village in Cave City, near the but as nostalgic artifacts they can’t be
popular tourist attraction of Mammoth beat, and they’re very much in demand.
Cave. Later branches went up in 1940 in
New Orleans (closed in 1954) and Besse- Louisville, KY; Flagstaff, AZ; San Ber-
mer, Alabama (closed in 1964); after the nardino, CA
war in the late 1940s, three more went up,
in Orlando (the largest of the chain, razed $ Wigwam Village Motel, 601 N.
in 1974) and two more which have sur-
vived along Route 66 , America’s main Dixie Hwy., Cave City, KY (& 270/773-
east-west highway in the preinterstate
era, known for its wacky themed restau- 3381; www.wigwamvillage.com). $ Wig-
rants, motels, and gas stations. wam Village Motel, 811 W. Hopi Dr.,

The concept was fairly standard: 15 to Holbrook, AZ (& 928/524-3048). $ Wig-
20 white stucco teepees, 30 feet (9m) tall,
decorated with red zigzag stripes. Some- wam Motel, 2728 W. Foothill Blvd., Rialto,
how a tiny bathroom was squeezed into
CA (& 909/875-3005; www.wigwam

motel.com).

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Resource Index

Conservation Resources

In researching this book, we discovered an encouraging number of organizations

around the world that are actively working to preserve endangered natural, historical,
and cultural treasures. While we’ve mentioned several in specific write-ups throughout
this book, here’s a list of important organizations we’ve come to depend on—invaluable
resources to anybody who cares about conservation and the environment.

International

Conservation International The Nature Conservancy

2011 Crystal Dr., Suite 500 4245 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 100

Arlington, VA 22202 Arlington, VA 22203-1606

United States United States

& 703/341-2400 & 703/841-5300

www.conservation.org www.nature.org

Friends of the Earth International Wetlands International

P.O. Box 19199 P.O. Box 471

1000 GD Amsterdam 6700 AL Wageningen

The Netherlands The Netherlands

& 31 20 622 1369 & 31/318 660910

www.foei.org www.wetlands.org

Global Heritage Fund Wildlife Conservation Society

625 Emerson St., Suite 200 2300 Southern Blvd.

Palo Alto, CA 94301 Bronx, New York 10460

United States United States

& 650/325-7520 & 718/220-5100

www.globalheritagefund.org www.wcs.org

Greenforce World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature/
21 Heathmans Rd. World Wildlife Fund
London SW6 4TJ Av. du Mont-Blanc 1196
United Kingdom Gland, Switzerland
www.panda.org
& 44/207 384 30288
WWF United States
www.greenforce.org 1250 24th St. NW
Washington, DC 20037
Greenpeace International
Ottho Heldringstraat 5 & 202/293-4800
1066 AZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands WWF Canada
245 Eglinton Ave. E., Suite 410
& 31/20 7182000 Toronto, Ontario M4P 3J1

www.greenpeace.org/international & 416/489 8800

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WWF United Kingdom WWF-Australia

Panda House Weyside Park Level 13 235 Jones St.

Godalming Ultimo, NSW 2007

& 44/1483 426 444 & 61/2 9281 5515

United States

American Rivers National Audubon Society

1101 14th St. NW, Suite 1400 225 Varick St.

Washington, DC 20005 New York, NY 10014

& 202/347-7550 & 212/979-3000

www.americanrivers.org www.audubon.org

Defenders of Wildlife National Wildlife Federation

1130 17th St. NW 11100 Wildlife Center Dr.

Washington, DC 20036 Reston, VA 20190

& 800/385-9712 & 800/822-9919

www.defenders.org www.nwf.org

Environment America The Sierra Club

44 Winter St., 4th Floor 85 Second St., 2nd Floor

Boston, MA 02108 San Francisco, CA 94105

& 617/747-4449 & 415/977-5500

www.environmentamerica.org www.sierraclub.org

Environmental Defense Fund The Wilderness Society

257 Park Ave. S. 1615 M St., NW

New York, NY 10010 Washington, DC 20036

& 800/684-3322 & 800/THE-WILD (843-9453)

www.edf.org www.wilderness.org

Canada

Nature Canada

85 Albert St., Suite 300

Ottawa, OntarioK1P 5E7

& 800/267-4088 or 613/562-3447

www.naturecanada.ca

United Kingdom

The Wildlife Trusts English Heritage
The Kiln, Waterside, Mather Rd.
Newark, Nottinghamshire NG24 1WT 1 Waterhouse Square

& 44/1636 677711 138-142 Holborn

www.wildlifetrusts.org London EC1N 2ST

Natural England & 44/20 7973 3000
1 E. Parade
Sheffield S1 2ET www.english-heritage.org.uk

& 44/845 600 3078

www.naturalengland.org.uk

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Resource Index

Australia

Australian Conservation Foundation Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Floor 1, 60 Leicester St. P.O. Box 8070

Carlton, Vic 3053 Subiaco East, WA 6008

& 61/3/9345 1111 & 61/8/9380 9633

www.acfonline.org.au www.australianwildlife.org

New Zealand

Royal Forest and Bird
Protection Society

Level One, 90 Ghuznee St.

P.O. Box 631

Wellington 6140

& 64/4/385 7374

www.forestandbird.org.nz

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Indexes

Geographical Index

Alabama Luna Park, 437–438
Grand Bay Savanna, 244–245 Mabi forest, 190–191
The Gulf Coast, 3–4 Mission Beach, 61–62
Sand Island Lighthouse, 415 Portsea Beach, 113
Walls of Jericho, 156 Purnululu National Park, 212–213
Shark Bay, 122–123
Alaska Tasmania, 78–79
Denali National Park, 211–212 Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park,
Glacier Bay, 127–128 381–382
Kenai Fjords, 126–127 Warrumbungle National Park, 15
Wollemi National Park, 167–168
Albania Bangladesh
Gjirokastra, 362 Sundarbans National Park, 114–115
Belarus
Antarctica, 19–20 Bialowiel9a Forest, 171–172
Shackleton’s Hut & Scott’s Hut, Belgium
322–323 Waterloo, 314
Belize
Argentina Barrier Reef, 81
Buenos Aires, 330–331 Placencia Lagoon, 111
Cueva de las Manos, 263 Bolivia
Los Glaciares National Park, 202–203 El Fuerte de Samaipata, 271–272
Peninsula Valdés, 129–130 Tiwanaku, 293
Bonaire, 80
Arizona Botswana
Arcosanti, 337 Chobe National Park, 57
Canyon de Chelly, 286–287 Okavango Delta, 145–146
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, 220 Brazil
Taliesin & Taliesin West, 324–325 Amazon Rainforest, 7–8
Tutuveni, 264 Anavilhanas Ecological Station, 75–76
Western Hills Motel, 447 Mamirauá Nature Reserve, 187
Wigwam motels, 453 The Pantanal, 8–9
California
Arkansas The Alex Theatre, 423
Buffalo River, 155 Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, 220
Cache River Wildlife Refuge, 176–177 Cannery Row, 409–411
Terre Noire Natural Area, 248 Century Plaza Hotel, 449–450
Channel Islands, 72–73
Australia Death Valley, 251
Capri Theater, 423 The East Gate (Los Angeles), 446
Christmas Island, 77–78 The Egyptian Theatre, 422
Coober Pedy, 363
Daintree Rainforest, 189–190
Dampier Rock Art Complex, 265
Kakadu National Park, 117–118
Kangaroo Island, 94–95
Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, 265
Lord Howe Island, 95–96

Geographical Index China
Bifengxia Panda Base, 42
California (cont.) The Great Wall, 308–309
El Capitan Theater, 423 Gu Gong (The Forbidden City), 319–320
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Hong Kong, 342–343
124–126 Hukeng, 363
Googie Design, 443–444 hutong neighborhoods (Beijing),
Joshua Tree National Park, 220 344–345
Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuges, Jimingyi Post Town, 336
135–136 The Three Gorges, 139–141
Milestone Motel, 448–449
Mission San Miguel Arcángel, 394 Colombia
Mono Lake, 136–137 Malpelo Fauna and Floral Sanctuary, 27
Mount Williamson Preserve, 220 San Agustín Archeological Park, 375
Oldest McDonald’s, 442–443
Pinnacles National Monument, Colorado
252–253 Georgetown Wildlife Viewing Area, 221
Point Reyes National Seashore, 104 Great Sand Dunes National Park, 12–13
Redwood Forests of California, 164 Hovenweep National Monument,
Salk Institute, 424 285–286
Santa Barbara, 112 Mesa Verde National Park, 284–285
Santa Rosa Plateau, 239–240 Pawnee National Grasslands, 249
Watts Towers, 436–437 Rocky Mountain National Park,
Wigwam motels, 453 207–208
Wild Horse Sanctuary, 240–241 San Miguel River Preserve, 159–160
Yosemite National Park, 209
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Cambodia Okapi Wildlife Reserve, 38–39
Angkor Wat, 369–370
Connecticut
Cameroon Griswold Point, 152–153
Dja Faunal Reserve, 40–41 Merritt Parkway, 441–442

Canada Corsica, 37–38
Banff National Park, 221 Costa Rica
Columbia Icefields, 199
Cypress Hills Dark-Sky Preserve, 15 Cocos Island Marine Park, 91–92
Gordon’s Park, 15 Monteverde Cloud Forest, 185–186
The Great Lakes, 4–5 Tortuguero National Park, 26
Herschel Island, 71–72 Crete
Hudson Bay, 34–35 beaches of, 107–108
Kootenai River, 133–134 Cyprus
Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve, Famagusta/Magusa, 305–306
249 Czech Republic
Manitou Mounds, 397 Cesky Krumlov, 353–355
McDonald Park Dark Sky Preserve, 15 Delaware
Nottawasaga Island Lighthouse, 415 Delaware Bayshores, 120–121
Peace-Athabasca Delta, 146–147 Mispillion River Lighthouse, 414
Quill Lakes, 153 Ecuador
Torrance Barrens, 14–15 The Galápagos Islands, 20–22
Vaseaux Protected Area, 221 Egypt
Abu Mena, 275, 278
Chile Pyramids of Giza, 272–274
The Aysen Wilderness, 137–138 Valley of the Kings, 274–275
Cerros Pintados, 265 England
Easter Island, 403–404 Avebury, 276
Torres del Paine National Park, Battersea Power Station, 413, 416
203–204 Battle of Hastings, 314

458

Geographical Index

Bluebell Forests of East Anglia, The Gambia
169–170 Kokoli Beach, 113
Boscawen-Un, 276
Coronet Cinema, 423 Georgia
Hadrian’s Wall, 303–304 Cumberland Island National Seashore,
“high street” shopping areas, 350–351 86–87
Holderness Coast, 113 Ocmulgee Old Fields, 396
Letchworth Garden City, 337 Okefenokee Swamp, 148–149
Lyme Bay, 105 Sweet Auburn (Atlanta), 364–365
Red Routemaster buses (London), 445,
448 Germany
Rollright Stones, 276–277 The Berlin Wall, 425–426
Sherwood Forest, 170–171 Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 383
Spitalfields (London), 351–352 Prenzlauerberg, 352–353
St. Mary’s Church, 392 Reeperbahn clubs (Hamburg), 439–440
Stanton Drew, 276 Sylt, 70–71
Stonehenge, 268–269
Tower of London, 313, 316 Greece
Ethiopia The Acropolis, 295–296
Simien Mountains National Park,
213–214 Guatemala
The Falkland Islands, 76–77 El Mirador, 290–291
Finland Tikal, 289–290
Malmi Airport Terminal, 412–413
Sammallahdenmäki, 397 Haiti
Florida Sans-Souci Palace, 321–322
Apalachicola Bluffs & Ravines Preserve,
243–244 Hawaii
Big Cypress National Preserve, Hakalau Forest Refuge, 58–59
115–116 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park,
Biscayne Bay shores, 108–109 225–226
Biscayne National Park, 80 Kamakou Preserve, 184–185
Blowing Rocks Preserve, 102 Kawainui Marsh, 116–117
Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, Mauna Kea, 14
29–30 Mount Haleakala, 219, 222
The Everglades, 2–3 Pearl Harbor, 315
Gulf Boulevard’s vintage motels, 452 Puako Petroglyphs, 264–265
The Gulf Coast, 3–4 Waikiki Beach, 112
Hialeah Park Race Track, 431–432
Miami Beach, 112 Hungary
Tampa Theatre, 423 Old Jewish Ghetto (Budapest), 356–357
Weeki Wachee Springs, 435–436
France Iceland, 74–75
Abbey of Mont-St-Michel, 390–391 Idaho
The Camargue, 16–17
Carnac, 277 Great Basin National Park, 14
Caves of Lascaux & Valley of the Hell’s Canyon, 132–133
Vizérè, 258–259 Kootenai River, 133–134
Regional Nature Park of Corsica, 37–38 The Stinker Station, 446
Verdun, 315 Illinois
Gambia Cahokia Mounds, 396
Stone Circles of Senegambia, Gambia Cook County Hospital, 418
& Senegal, 276 Gateway Theater, 422
Nachusa Grasslands, 248
The Seven Dwarfs, 447
Superdawg Drive-In, 446–447
Unity Temple, 395
Uptown Theater (Chicago), 422
Wrigley Field, 429–430
India
Ajanta Caves, 385–386
Bhyundar Ghati National Park, 214–215

459

Geographical Index Leaning Tower of Pisa, 307–308
Matera, 362
India (cont.) Paestum, 299–300
Corbett National Park, 44–45 Pompeii, 297–298
Gir Wildlife Sanctuary, 57 Ponte Vecchio, 306–307
Great Stupa of Sanchi, 384 trulli district of Alberobello, 347–348
Keoladeo National Park, 154 Venice, 335, 338
Khajuraho Temples, 371–372 Jamaica
National Chambal Sanctuary, 31 Negril, 113
Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, 172–173 Japan
Panna National Park, 191–192 Machiya Town Houses, 343–344
Project Tiger Parks, 57 Matsushima, 17–18
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, 261 Ogimachi, 363
Sundarbans National Park, 114–115 Shiretoko National Park, 82
Taj Mahal, 400–401 Jordan
Wild Ass Wildlife Sanctuary, 45–46 Dana Biosphere Reserve, 256
Petra, 281–282
Indiana Kansas
Cressmoor Prairie Preserve, 248 Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, 237
Kentucky
Indonesia Bad Branch Preserve, 178–179
Bali, 65–66 Crescent Bowl, 447
Borobudur, 386–387 Cumberland Plateau, 177–178
Gunung Leuser National Park, 192–193 Wigwam motels, 453
Komodo National Park, 46–47 Kenya
Taman Sari Water Castle, 318–319 Lamu, 310
Ujung Kulon National Park, 48–49 Masai Mara, 56
Sambura National Reserve, 56
Iowa Latvia
Amana Colonies, 336 Riga, 355–356
Cedar River, 158–159 Lebanon
Effigy Mounds, 396–397 Ancient Byblos, 280–281
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Cedars of Lebanon, 166–167
248–249 Little Cayman Island
Booby Pond Nature Reserve, 59–60
Iraq Louisiana
Babylon, 278–279 Cypress Island Preserve, 149
The Gulf Coast, 3–4
Ireland Lower Ninth Ward (New Orleans),
Beltany, 277 357–358
The Burren, 13, 16 Madagascar, 64–65
Dun Aengus, 267–268 Maine
Hill of Tara, 266 Kennebunk Plains Preserve, 231
Newgrange, 397 Mount Desert Island, 84
Roundstone Bog, 246–247 Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge,
152
Israel Malaysia
The Dead Sea, 23–24 Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation
Masada, 300–302 Center, 43–44
Old Acre, 304–305 Turtle Islands Park, 32
Old Jerusalem, 376–377 The Maldives, 11–12
Mali
Italy mosques of Timbuktu, 373
Barumini (Sardinia), 362
Cimitero Acattolico per gli Stranieri,
402–403
Civita di Bagnoregio, 336
The Colosseum, 296–297
Crespi d’Adda, 337
Herculaneum, 298–299
The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci),
388–389

460

Geographical Index

Malta Montana
Fort St. Elmo, 269–270 American Prairie Reserve, 230–231
Ggantija, 374 Glacier National Park, 200–201
Koo Koo Sint Viewing Area, 221
Maryland Kootenai River, 133–134
Assateague Island, 85–86 Swan River Oxbow Preserve, 161–162
Baltimore’s Row Houses, 360–361
Cranesville Swamp Preserve, 182–183 Namibia
Monocacy, 315 Palmwag Concession, 57
Nassawango Creek Preserve, 147–148 Twyfelfontein Uibasen Conservancy,
265
Massachusetts
Cape Cod National Seashore, 99–100 Nebraska
Fenway Park, 428–429 Lake McConaughy, 153
Minute Man National Historic Park, 314 Oglala National Grasslands, 249
Oak Bluffs, 337
Sankaty Head, 414 Nepal
Walden Pond, 183–184 Chitwan National Park, 241–242
Wellfleet Drive-In, 434–435 Kathmandu, 380–381

Mexico The Netherlands
Baja California, 121–122 Texel Island, 123–124
Cancun, 112–113
Chichén Itzá, 311–312 Nevada
Colorado River Basin, 5–6 Great Basin National Park, 165–166
Cuatro Cienegas Biosphere Reserve, Valley of Fire, 264
253–254
Lake Chapala, 138–139 New Hampshire
Mexico City, 329–330 Ossipee Pine Barrens, 181–182
Michoacán Monarch Biosphere White Island, 414
Reserve, 49–50
Teotihuacán, 291–292 New Jersey
Veracruz River of Raptors, 50–51 Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge, 153
Delaware Bayshores, 120–121
Michigan Doo-Wop Motels, 451
Downtown Detroit, 327–328 Loew’s Jersey Theater, 422
Isle Royale National Park, 87–88
Saugatuck Dunes, 103 New Mexico
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Bandelier National Monument,
Lakeshore, 153 173–174
Mount Taylor, 224–225
Micronesia Petroglyph National Monument, 264
Palau, 92 Taos Pueblo, 348–349
The YAM Movie Palace, 423
Minnesota
Agassiz Dunes Preserves, 232–233 New York
Paul Bunyan Statues, 444–445 Coney Island, 432–434
Delaware Water Gap, 157–158
Mississippi Erie Canalway National Heritage
Beauvoir, 323–324 Corridor, 406–407
Grand Bay Savanna, 244–245 Esopus Lighthouse, 414
The Gulf Coast, 3–4 Fire Island National Seashore, 152
Vicksburg, 142–143 Flushing Meadows, 419–420
Little Italy (New York City), 358–360
Missouri Mashomack Preserve, 153
Harry S. Truman Historic District Montauk, 112
(Independence), 365–366 TWA Terminal at JFK Airport, 411–412

Mongolia New York State
Ulan Bator, 363 The Adirondacks, 179–181

New Zealand
Fiordlands National Park, 128–129
Kapiti Island, 60–61

461

Geographical Index Poland
Bialowiel9a Forest, 171–172
New Zealand (cont.)
Mount Cook National Park, 216–218 Portugal
Rotorua, 226–227 The Algarve, 106–107
Almendres Menhir, 277
North Carolina Coa Valley, 265
Bodie Island Lighthouse, 414–415 Laurissilva, 168–169
Cape Hatteras National Seashore,
100–101 Puerto Rico
Grandfather Mountain, 218–219 Isla de Mona Lighthouse, 415
Green Swamp Preserve, 245–246
Rhode Island
North Dakota Goosewing Beach, 152
John E. Williams Preserve, 153
prairie churches, 399–400 Romania
painted churches of Moldavia, 393
Ohio
Lynx Prairie Preserve, 248 Russia
Newark Earthworks, 396 Lake Baikal, 22–23
Over-the-Rhine neighborhood St. Petersburg, 339–340
(Cincinnati), 366–367 Wrangel Island, 69–70
Serpent Mound, 396
Saba, 80
Oklahoma Samoa
Pontotoc Ridge Preserve, 236
Rancho Grande Mexican Restaurant, Pulemelei Mound, 370–371
447 Scotland
Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, 249
Balranald, 96–97
Oregon Ben Lawers, 215–216
Dunstan Homestead, 160–161 Callanish, 277
Hell’s Canyon, 132–133 Edinburgh graveyards, 401–402
Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuges, Galloway Forest Park, 15
135–136 Red Deer Range, 36–37
Willow Creek Preserve, 238 Ring of Brodgar, 277
Senegal
Palestine Stone Circles of Senegambia, Gambia
Church of the Holy Nativity, 377–378 & Senegal, 276
The Seychelles
Panama Cousin Island Special Reserve, 93–94
Coiba Island, 90–91 Slovakia
Vlkolínec, 336
Papua New Guinea, 67–68 South Africa
Pennsylvania Cape Town Colony, 33–34
iSimangaliso Wetlands Park, 119
Bethlehem Steel Works, 408–409 Kruger National Park, 57
Cherry Springs State Park, 14 Wonderwerk Cave, 262
Cyclorama Center (Gettysburg), 417 South Carolina
Delaware Water Gap, 157–158 Morris Island Lighthouse, 415
Electric City, 446 South Dakota
Lancaster County, 361, 364 Badlands National Park, 233–234
Rivers of Steel Heritage Area, 407–408 Buffalo Gap National Grassland, 249
Valley Forge, 314 Custer State Park & Wind Cave
Peru National Park, 234–235
Chan Chan Archaeological Zone, 288 Spain
Colca Valley, 51–52 Alhambra, 317–318
Kuelap Fort, 270–271 Altamira Cave, 259–260
Lima Centro, 333 La Sagrada Família, 389–390
Machu Picchu, 312–313
Manu Biosphere Reserve, 188
Nazca Lines, 254–255
The Philippines
Intramuros, 338–339

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Geographical Index

Santiago de Compostela, 387–388 Utah
Toledo, 334 Canyonlands National Park, 221
Suriname Hovenweep National Monument,
Central Suriname Nature Reserve, 195 285–286
Sweden Natural Bridges National Monument,
Gamla Uppsala, 397 14
Gammelstads Kyrkstad, 336 Nine Mile Canyon, 264
Switzerland
The Jungfrau, 198 Venezuela
Syria Santa Ana de Coro, 332
Urkesh, 279–280
Tanzania Vermont
Mount Kilimanjaro, 227 Eshqua Bog & Chickering Bog, 250
Ngorongoro Crater, 56
Serengeti National Park, 9–10 Vietnam
Tennessee Phu Quoc, 68–69
Cumberland Plateau, 177–178
Walls of Jericho, 156 Virginia
Texas Assateague Island, 85–86
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware Bayshores, 120–121
54–55 Shenandoah National Park, 206–207
Big Thicket National Preserve, 175–176
Bracken Bat Cave & Eckert James River Wales
Bat Cave, 53–54 Newborough Forest, 35–36
Caddo Lake State Park, 150 Portmeirion, 337
Galveston Island, 328–329
The Gulf Coast, 3–4 Washington, D.C.
Houston Astrodome, 430–431 Martin Luther King, Jr., Library,
Padre Island National Seashore, 28–29 420–421
San Jacinto State Park, 314–315 Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, D.C.,
Thailand 398–399
Khao Yai National Park, 193–194
Mekong River, 141–142 Washington State
Pattaya Beach, 113 The Elephant Car Wash, 447
Tibet Hell’s Canyon, 132–133
Qomolangma National Nature Mount Rainier National Park, 223–224
Preserve, 197 North Cascades National Park,
Tunisia 201–202
Ksour District, 363 San Juan Islands, 88–90
Turkey Skagit River eagles, 55, 58
Aphrodisias, 283
Bin Tepeler, 397 West Virginia
Cappadocia, 362 Cranesville Swamp Preserve, 182–183
Ephesus, 302–303 Greenbrier Valley, 205–206
Gallipoli, 315 Harpers Ferry, 315
Istanbul, 340–341
Little Hagia Sofia, 379 Wisconsin
Uganda Leon’s Frozen Custard, 446
Bwindi Impenetrable Mountain Forest, Mink River Estuary, 144
39–40 Raspberry Island Lighthouse, 415
U.S. Virgin Islands Taliesin & Taliesin West, 324–325
Salt River Bay, 110
Wyoming
Whiskey Mountain Habitat Area, 221
Yellowstone National Park, 210–211

Yemen
Socotra, 83
Zabid courtyard houses, 346

Zambia
Lower Zambezi National Park, 56

Zimbabwe
Hwange National Park, 57

463

Alphabetical Index

Abbey of Mont-St-Michel, Assateague Island, 85–86 Big Cypress National
390–391 Astrodome, Houston, Preserve, 115–116
Abu Mena, 275, 278 430–431 Bighorn sheep, 220–221
Acre, Old, 304–305 Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn Big Thicket National
The Acropolis, 295–296 neighborhood, 364–365 Preserve, 175–176
The Adirondacks, 179–181 Avebury, 276 Bin Tepeler, 397
Agassiz Dunes Preserves, The Aysen Wilderness, Biscayne Bay shores,
232–233 137–138 108–109
Agia Galini, 108 Babylon, 278–279 Biscayne National Park, 80
Ajanta Caves, 385–386 Bad Branch Preserve, Black Hills Wild Horse
Alberobello, trulli district 178–179 Sanctuary, 235
of, 347–348 Badlands National Park, Blowing Rocks Preserve,
Aletsch Glacier, 198 233–234 102
The Alex Theatre, 423 Baikal, Lake, 22–23 Bluebell Forests of East
The Algarve, 106–107 Baja California, 121–122 Anglia, 169–170
Alhambra, 317–318 Balcony House, 285 Bodie Island Lighthouse,
Almendres Menhir, 277 Bali, 65–66 414–415
Altamira Cave, 259–260 Balranald, 96–97 Booby Pond Nature
Amana Colonies, 336 Baltimore’s Row Houses, Reserve, 59–60
Amazon Basin, Upper, 187 360–361 Borobudur, 386–387
Amazonian manatees, Bandelier National Boscawen-Un, 276
75–76 Monument, 173–174 Boulder Coastal Park,
Amazon rainforest, 7–8 Bandhavgarh National 33–34
American Prairie Reserve, Park, 57 Bracken Bat Cave, 53–54
230–231 Bandipur National Park, Bridalveil Fall, 209
Anaheim Convention 173 Bsharre, 166–167
Center, 443–444 Banff National Park, 221 Buck Island, USVI, 81
Anavilhanas Ecological Barumini, 362 Budapest, Old Jewish
Station, 75–76 Battersea Power Station, Ghetto, 356–357
Andasibe-Mantadia 413, 416 Buenos Aires, 330–331
National Park, 65 Battlefields, 314–315 Buffalo Gap National
Angkor Wat, 369–370 Battle of Hastings, 314 Grassland, 249
Antarctica, 19–20 The Beatles, 439–440 Buffalo River, 155
Anza-Borrego Desert State Beauvoir, 323–324 Bunyan, Paul, Statues,
Park, 220 Beltany, 277 444–445
Apalachicola Bluffs Ben Lawers, 215–216 The Burren, 13, 16
and Ravines Preserve, The Berlin Wall, 425–426 Bwindi Impenetrable
243–244 Bethlehem Steel Works, Mountain Forest, 39–40
Aphrodisias, 283 408–409 Byblos, 280–281
Aransas National Wildlife Bhyundar Ghati National Cache River Wildlife
Refuge, 54–55 Park, 214–215 Refuge, 176–177
Arcosanti, 337 Bialowiel9a Forest, Caddo Lake State Park,
Art Nouveau Riga, 171–172
355–356 Bifengxia Panda Base, 42 150
Cahokia Mounds, 396

Callanish, 277 Cincinnati, Over-the-Rhine Alphabetical Index
The Camargue, 16–17 neighborhood, 366–367
Cancun, 112–113 Civita di Bagnoregio, 336 Dark sky, places for, 14–15
Cannery Row, 409–411 Cliff Palace, 284–285 Dawlish Warren Nature
Canyon de Chelly, Coa Valley, 265 Reserve, 105
286–287 Cocos Island Marine Park, The Dead Sea, 23–24
Canyonlands National 91–92 Death Valley, 251
Park, 221 Coiba Island, 90–91 Delaware Bayshores,
Cape Cod National Colca Valley, 51–52 120–121
Seashore, 99–100 Colorado River Basin, 5–6 Delaware Water Gap,
Cape Hatteras National The Colosseum, 296–297 157–158
Seashore, 100–101 Columbia Icefields, 199 Denali National Park,
Cape May Migratory Bird Coney Island, 432–434 211–212
Refuge, 153 Coober Pedy, 363 Dja Faunal Reserve, 40–41
Cape’s Ningaloo Reef, 123 Cook County Hospital, 418 Doo-Wop motels, 451
Cape Town Colony, 33–34 Corbett National Park, Doubtful Sound, 129
Cape Verde Islands, 81 44–45 Downtown Detroit,
Cappadocia, 362 Coronet Cinema, 423 327–328
Capri Theater, 423 Courtyard houses of Dun Aengus, 267–268
Cap St. Vincent, 107 Zabid, 346 Dunstan Homestead,
Carnac, 277 Cousin Island Special 160–161
Cascade Pass Trail, 202 Reserve, 93–94 Dunstan refuge, 161
Caves of Lascaux, 258– Cozumel, 80 The Eagles of Skagit River,
259 Cranesville Swamp 55, 58
Cedar River, 158–159 Preserve, 182–183 Easter Island, 403–404
Cedars of Lebanon, Crescent Bowl, 447 The East Gate, 446
166–167 Crespi d’Adda, 337 Eckert James River Bat
Central Suriname Nature Cressmoor Prairie Cave, 53–54
Reserve, 195 Preserve, 248 Edinburgh, graveyards of,
Century Plaza Hotel, Cruz del Condor, 52 401–402
449–450 Crystal River National Effigy Mounds, 396–397
Cerros Pintados, 265 Wildlife Refuge, 29–30
Cesky Krumlov, 353–355 Cuatro Cienegas The Egyptian Theatre, 422
Chan Chan Archaeological Biosphere Reserve, El Capitan, 209, 423
Zone, 288 253–254 El Caracol, 311
The Channel Islands, Cueva de las Manos, 263 Electric City, 446
72–73 Cumberland Island The Elephant Car Wash,
Chapala, Lake, 138–139 National Seashore, 86–87 447
Cherry Springs State Park, Cumberland Plateau, El Fuerte de Samaipata,
14 177–178 271–272
Chesil Beach, 105 Custer State Park, El Greco Museum, 334
Chichén Itzá, 311–312 234–235 El Mirador, 290–291
Chickering Bog, 250 Cyclorama Center, 417 El Vizcaino Biosphere
Chitwan National Park, Cypress Hills Dark-Sky Reserve, 121
241–242 Preserve, 15 Encontra das Aguas
Chobe National Park, 57 Cypress Island Preserve, (Meeting of the Waters), 7
Christmas Island, 77–78 149 Ephesus, 302–303
Church of the Holy Daintree Rainforest, Erie Canalway National
Nativity, 377–378 189–190 Heritage Corridor,
Cibola National Forest, Dampier Rock Art 406–407
224–225 Complex, 265 Eshqua Bog, 250
Cimitero Acattolico per gli Dana Biosphere Reserve, Esopus Lighthouse, 414
Stranieri, 402–403 256 The Everglades, 2–3
Famagusta/Magusa,
305–306
Fenway Park, 428–429

465

Alphabetical Index

Fine Foundation Marine The Great Lakes, 4–5 Hukeng, 363
Centre, 105 Great Pyramid, 273 Hutong neighborhoods,
Fiordlands National Park, Great Sand Dunes National 344–345
128–129 Park, 12–13 Hwange National Park, 57
Fire Island National Great Sphinx, 272–273 Icefields Parkway, 199
Seashore, 152 Great Stupa of Sanchi, 384 Indian Rock Cultural Site,
Flushing Meadows, The Great Wall, 308–309 230
419–420 Greenbrier Valley, Intramuros, 338–339
Fort St. Elmo, 269–270 205–206 iSimangaliso Wetlands
Francois Peron National Green Swamp Preserve, Park, 119
Park, 122 245–246 Isla de Mona Lighthouse,
Fukuura Island, 18 Griswold Point, 152–153 415
The Galápagos Islands, Gu Gong (The Forbidden Isle Royale National Park,
20–22 City), 319–320 87–88
Gallipoli, 315 Gulf Boulevard’s vintage Istanbul, 340–341
Galloway Forest Park, motels, 452 Jackson Glacier, 200
15, 37 The Gulf Coast, 3–4 Jasper National Park, 199
Galveston Island, 328–329 Gulf Islands National Jerusalem, Old, 376–377
Gamla Uppsala, 397 Seashore, 4 Jewish Ghetto, Old
Gammelstads Kyrkstad, Gunung Leuser National (Budapest), 356–357
336 Park, 192–193 Jimingyi Post Town, 336
Gateway Theater, 422 Hadrian’s Wall, 303–304 John Day River, 160–161
Georgetown Wildlife Hagia Sofia, Little, 379 John E. Williams Preserve,
Viewing Area, 221 Hakalau Forest Refuge, 153
George Wyth Memorial 58–59 Jordan River, 23
State Park, 159 Haleakala, Mount, 219, Joshua Tree National Park,
Gettysburg battlefield, 417 222 220
Ggantija, 374 Harpers Ferry, 315 The Jungfrau, 198
Gir Wildlife Sanctuary, 57 Harry S. Truman Historic Jungfraubahn, 198
Gjirokastra, 362 District (Independence),
Glaciarium, 202–203 365–366 Jupiter Island, 102
Glacier Bay, 127–128 Hawaii Volcanoes National Kakadu National Park,
Glacier Grey, 204 Park, 225–226 117–118
Glacier National Park, Hells Canyon, 132–133 Kamakou Preserve,
200–201 Herculaneum, 298–299 184–185
Godaido, 18 Hermitage Museum, 339 Kangaroo Island, 94–95
Going-to-the-Sun Road, Herschel Island, 71–72 Kapiti Island, 60–61
200 Hialeah Park Race Track, Kate’s Mountain, 205
Golden Gate National 431–432 Kathmandu, 380–381
Recreation Area, 124–126 “High Street” shopping Kawainui Marsh, 116–117
Googie Design, 443–444 areas, 350–351 Kenai Fjords, 126–127
Goosewing Beach, 152 Hill of Tara, 266 Kennebunk Plains
Gordon’s Park, 15 Holderness Coast, 113 Preserve, 231
Grand Bay Savanna, Holoholokai Beach Park, Keoladeo National Park,
244–245 264–265 154
Grand Canyon, 6 Homosassa Springs Khajuraho, Temples of,
Grandfather Mountain, Wildlife State Park, 30 371–372
218–219 Hong Kong, 342–343 Khao Yai National Park,
Graveyards of Edinburgh, Houston Astrodome, 193–194
401–402 430–431 Khazneh, 281
Great Barrier Reef, 80–81 Hovenweep National Kilauea Caldera, 225–226
Great Basin National Park, Monument, 285 Kilimanjaro, Mount,
14, 165–166 Hudson Bay, 34–35 227–228

466

Alphabetical Index

Klamath Basin Wildlife Los Glaciares National Medanos de Coros
Refuges, 135–136 Park, 202–203 National Park, 332
Kofa National Wildlife Lost World Caverns, 205 Meeting of the Waters
Refuge, 220 Loutro, 108 (Encontra das Aguas), 7
Kokoli Beach, 113 Lower Ninth Ward, Mekong River, 141–142
Komodo National Park, 357–358 Merritt Parkway, 441–442
46–47 Lower Zambezi National Mesa Verde National Park,
Koo Koo Sint Viewing Park, 56 284–285
Area, 221 Luna Park, 437–438 Metropolitan A.M.E.
Kootenai Falls, 133–134 Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Church, D.C., 398–399
Kootenai River, 133–134 383 Mexico City, 329–330
Kruger National Park, 57 Lyme Bay, 105 Miami Beach, 112
Ksour District, 363 Lynx Prairie Preserve, 248 Michoacán Monarch
Kuelap Fort, 270–271 Mabi forest, 190–191 Biosphere Reserve,
Kuirau Park, 227 Machiya town houses, 49–50
Ku-ring-gai Chase National 343–344 Mile High Swinging Bridge,
Park, 265 Machu Picchu, 312–313 219
La Danta pyramid, Mackinac Island, 5 Milestone Motel, 448–449
290–291 The Maldives, 11–12 Milford Sound, 129
Laguna Madre, 29 Malheur National Forest, Mink River Estuary, 144
Lake Baikal, 22–23 161 Minute Man National
Lake Chapala, 138–139 Malmi Airport Terminal, Historic Park, 314
Lake Louise, 199 412–413 Mirror Lake, 209
Lake Martin, 150 Malpelo Fauna and Floral Mispillion River
Lake McConaughy, 153 Sanctuary, 27 Lighthouse, 414
Lake McDonald, 200 Mamirauá Nature Reserve, Mission Beach, 61–62
Lamu, 310 187 Mission San Miguel
Lancaster County, Mammoth Hot Springs, Arcángel, 394
361, 364 210 Moldavia, painted
La Sagrada Família, Manaus, 7–8 churches of, 393
389–390 Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Monocacy, 315
Lascaux caves, 258–259 Preserve, 249 Mono Lake, 136–137
The Last Supper (da Vinci), Manitou Mounds, 397 Montauk, 112
388–389 Manu Biosphere Reserve, Monteverde Cloud Forest,
Laurissilva, 168–169 188 185–186
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Martin, Lake, 150 Morris Island Lighthouse,
307–308 Martin Luther King, Jr., 415
Leonardo da Vinci, The Library, 420–421 Mosques of Timbuktu, 373
Last Supper, 388 Masada, 300–302 Mount Cook National Park,
Leon’s Frozen Custard, Masai Mara, 56 216–218
446 Mashomack Preserve, 153 Mount Desert Island, 84
Letchworth Garden City, Matera, 362 Mount Haleakala, 219, 222
337 Matmâta, 362 Mount Kilimanjaro,
Lima Centro, 333 Matsushima, 17–18 227–228
Little Hagia Sofia, 379 Mauna Kea, 14 Mount Rainier National
Little Italy (New York City), McConaughy, Lake, 153 Park, 223–224
358–360 McDonald, Lake, 200 Mount Taylor, 224–225
Loew’s Jersey Theater, McDonald Park Dark Sky Mount Williamson
422 Preserve, 15 Preserve, 220
Long House, 285 McDonald’s, Oldest, Movie theaters, 422–423
Lord Howe Island, 95–96 442–443 Nachusa Grasslands, 248
Loreto, 121–122 McGregor Museum, 262 Nassawango Creek
Preserve, 147–148

467

Alphabetical Index Panna National Park, Qomolangma National
191–192 Nature Preserve, 197
National Chambal The Pantanal, 8–9 Quill Lakes, 153
Sanctuary, 31 Papua New Guinea, 67–68 Rachel Carson National
National War Museum, Pattaya Beach, 113 Wildlife Refuge, 152
270 Patterson Park/Highland- Raleighvallen (Raleigh
Natural Bridges National town Historic District, 360 Falls), 195
Monument, 14 Paul Bunyan Statues, Rancho Grande Mexican
Nazca Lines, 254–255 444–445 Restaurant, 447
Neal Smith National Pawnee National Ranthambore National
Wildlife Refuge, 248–249 Grasslands, 249 Park, 57
Negril, 113 Peace-Athabasca Delta, Raspberry Island
Newark Earthworks, 396 146–147 Lighthouse, 415
Newborough Forest, Pearl Harbor, 315 Red Deer Range, 36–37
35–36 Peninsula Valdés, 129–130 Red Routemasters, 445,
Newgrange, 397 Perito Moreno Glacier, 448
New Orleans, Lower Ninth 202–203 Redwood Forests of
Ward, 357–358 Petra, 281–282 California, 164
Ngorongoro Crater, 56 Petroglyph National Reeperbahn, 439–440
Niagara Falls, 5 Monument, 264 Regional Nature Park of
Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Petroglyphs, 264–265 Corsica, 37–38
172–173 Phu Quoc, 68–69 Resurrection Bay, 126
Nine Mile Canyon, 264 Pinnacles National Riga, Art Nouveau,
North Cascades National Monument, 252–253 355–356
Park, 201–202 Piping plovers, 152–153 Ring of Brodgar, 277
Nottawasaga Island Pisa, Leaning Tower of, Rio Pinturas canyon, 263
Lighthouse, 415 307–308 Rivers of Steel Heritage
Oak Bluffs, 337 Placencia Lagoon, 111 Area, 407–408
Ocmulgee Old Fields, 396 Point Reyes National Roberts Prairie Dog Town,
Ogimachi, 363 Seashore, 104 233–234
Oglala National Pompeii, 297–298 Rock Shelters of
Grasslands, 249 Ponta da Piedade, 107
Ojima, 18 Ponte Vecchio, 306–307 Bhimbetka, 261
Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Pontotoc Ridge Preserve, Rocky Mountain National
38–39 236 Park, 207–208
Okavango Delta, 145–146 Portmeirion, 337 Rollright Stones, 276–277
Okefenokee Swamp, Portsea Beach, 113 Rotorua, 226–227
148–149 Prairie churches of North Roundstone Bog, 246–247
Old Acre, 304–305 Dakota, 399–400 Route 66, 440–441
Old Faithful, 210 Prairies, 248–249 Routemasters, red, 445,
Old Jerusalem, 376–377 Prehistoric mounds, 448
Old Jewish Ghetto 396–397 St. Mary’s Church, 392
(Budapest), 356–357 Prenzlauerberg, 352–353 St. Petersburg (Russia),
Ossipee Pine Barrens, Puako Petroglyphs, 339–340
181–182 264–265 Salk Institute, 424
Over-the-Rhine Puerto Pirámides, 130 Salt River Bay, 110
neighborhood, 366–367 Pulemelei Mound, Sambura National
Padre Island National 370–371 Reserve, 56
Seashore, 28–29 Purnululu National Park, Sammallahdenmäki, 397
Paestum, 299–300 212–213 San Agustín Archeological
Painted churches of Pyramids of Giza, 272–274 Park, 375
Moldavia, 393 Qadishyah plateau, 256 Sanchi, Great Stupa of,
Palau, 92–93 384
Palmwag Concession, 57

468

Sand Island Lighthouse, Sundarbans National Park, Alphabetical Index
415 114–115
San Jacinto State Park, Superdawg Drive-In, TWA Terminal at JFK
314–315 446–447 Airport, 411–412
San Juan Islands, 88–90 Swan River Oxbow Twyfelfontein Uibasen
Sankaty Head, 414 Preserve, 161–162 Conservancy, 265
San Miguel River Preserve, Sweet Auburn, 364–365 Ujung Kulon National Park,
159–160 Sylt, 70–71 48–49
Sans-Souci Palace, Taj Mahal, 400–401 Ulan Bator, 363
321–322 Taliesin & Taliesin West, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National
Santa Ana de Coro, 332 324–325 Park, 381–382
Santa Barbara, 112 Tallgrass Prairie National uMkhuze Game Reserve,
Santa Cruz, 73 Preserve, 237 119
Santa Rosa Plateau, Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Unity Temple, 395
239–240 249 Uppsala, 397
Santiago de Compostela, Taman Sari Water Castle, Uptown Theater, 422
387–388 318–319 Urkesh, 279–280
Saugatuck Dunes, 103 Tampa Theatre, 423 Valdés Peninsula, 129–130
Scott’s Hut, 322–323 Taos Pueblo, 348–349 Valley Forge, 314
Sepilok Orang Utan Tasman Glacier, 217 Valley of Fire, 264
Rehabilitation Center, Tasmania, 78–79 Valley of the Kings,
43–44 Taylor, Mount, 224–225 274–275
Serengeti National Park, Temple of Hera, 300 Valley of the Vizérè,
9–10 Temple of Karnak, 274 258–259
Serpent Mound, 396 Temple of the Warriors, Vaseaux Protected Area,
The Seven Dwarfs, 447 312 221
Seward Harbor, 126–127 Temples of Khajuraho, Venice, 335, 338
Shackleton’s Hut, 322–323 371–372 Veracruz River of Raptors,
Shark Bay, 122–123 Teotihuacán, 291–292
Shenandoah National Terre Noire Natural Area, 50–51
Park, 206–207 248 Verdun, 315
Sherwood Forest, Texel Island, 123–124 Vicksburg, 142–143
170–171 Three Gorges Dam, Vlkolínec, 336
Shiretoko National Park, 139–141 Waikiki Beach, 112
82 Tikal, 289–290 Wakatobi National Marine
Simien Mountains National Timbuktu, mosques of, Park, 81
Park, 213–214 373 Walden Pond, 183–184
Skagit River, eagles of, Tiwanaku, 293 The Walls of Jericho, 156
55, 58 Toledo, 334 Warrumbungle National
Skyline Drive, 206–207 Topkapi Palace, 341 Park, 15
Sleeping Bear Dunes Torrance Barrens, 14–15 Waterloo, 314
National Lakeshore, 153 Torres del Paine National Watts Towers, 436–437
Snake River, 132–133 Park, 203–204 Weeki Wachee Springs,
Socotra, 83 Tortuguero National Park, 435–436
South Fork Preserve, 160 26 Wellfleet Drive-In, 434–435
Spitalfields, 351–352 Tower of London, 313, Western Hills Motel, 447
Stanton Drew, 276 316 Whiskey Mountain Habitat
Stargazing, 14–15 Trulli district of Area, 221
The Stinker Station, 446 Alberobello, 347–348 White Island, 414
Stone circles, 276–277 Tschudi Palace, 288 Wigwam motels, 453
Stone Circles of Tumbalen, 81 Wild Ass Wildlife
Senegambia, Gambia & Turtle Islands Park, 32 Sanctuary, 45–46
Senegal, 276 Turtle Lake, 153 Wild Horse Sanctuary,
Stonehenge, 268–269 Tutuveni, 264 240–241
Willow Creek Preserve,
238

469

Alphabetical Index Wright, Frank Lloyd, Yosemite Fall, Upper, 209
324–325, 395 Yosemite National Park,
Wind Cave National Park, Wrigley Field, 429–430 209
234–235 The YAM Movie Palace, Zabid, courtyard houses
Wollemi National Park, 423 of, 346
167–168 Yellowstone Lake, 211 Zuiganji Art Museum, 18
Wonderwerk Cave, 262 Yellowstone National Park,
Wood Buffalo National 210–211
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