Interesting Lists

U.S Dark Sky Parks

• Big Bend National Park (U.S.)
• Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park (U.S.)
• Blue Ridge Observatory and Star Park (U.S.)
• Canyonlands National Park (U.S.)
• Capitol Reef National Park (U.S.)
• Chaco Culture National Historical Park (U.S.)
• Cherry Springs State Park (U.S.)
• Clayton Lake State Park (U.S.)
• Copper Breaks State Park (U.S.)
• Dead Horse Point State Park (U.S.)
• Death Valley National Park (U.S.)
• Enchanted Rock State Natural Area (U.S.)
• Flagstaff Area National Monuments (U.S.)
• Geauga Observatory Park (U.S.)
• Goldendale Observatory Park (U.S.)
• Grand Canyon National Park (U.S.)
• Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (U.S.)
• Great Basin National Park (U.S.)
• Headlands (U.S.)
• Hovenweep National Monument (U.S.)
• Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park (U.S.)
• Natural Bridges National Monument (U.S.)
• Oracle State Park (U.S.)
• Pickett CCC Memorial State Park & Pogue Creek Canyon State Natural Area (U.S.)
• Staunton River State Park (U.S.)
• UBarU Camp and Retreat Center (U.S.)
• Weber County North Fork Park (U.S.)

Ice Cream Stores List from TV

• Coolrick’s Pharamacy (1863), Fredericksburg, VA (soda fountain 1912)
• Homer’s, Wilmette, IL 1935
• Mitchells Ice Cream, San Francisco 1953
• Cliff’s Ice Cream, Ledgewood, NJ 1975
• McConnels, Santa Barbara, CA 1949
• Crown Candy Kitchen, St. Louis, MO 1913
• John’s Drive Inn, Montauk, NY, 1967
• Graeters, Cincinnati, OH 1870
• Four Seas, Centerville, MA 1934
• Basetts Ice Cream, Philadelphia, PA 1861
• The Red Rooster Drive In, Brewster, NY 1963
• Doumar’s, Norfolk, VA 1907 opened by inventor of ice cream cone (1 of many claims)
• Wilton Candy Kitchen, Wilton, IO  1860
• Coles Drug, Big Timber, MT 1935
• The Parrot, Helena, MT (suggested by Dan Krivit)

Odd Museums

• Marion, OH Wyandot Popcorn Museum
• Logan, OH Columbus Washboard Co. & Museum
• Hocking Hills, OH Pencil Sharpener Museum
• Culver City, CA Museum of Jurassic Technology
• Independence, MO Leila’s Hair Museum
• LaCrosse, KN Kansas Barbed Wire Museum
• Watertown, MA Plumbing Museum
• Bardstown, KY Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
• Plano, TX Cockroach Hall of Fame and Museum
• Portland, OR Stark’s Vacuums/Vacuum Museum
• Santa Claus, IN Santa Claus Museum
• RV Hall of Fame, Elkhart, IN

Great Train Rides

These great train rides were copied from an Internet list on “Bing.”

• Fläm – Norway
• The Devil’s Nose – Ecuador
• Royal Scotsman
• The Ghan – Australia
• Palace on Wheels – India
• Bernia Express – Char to Tirano
• The Rocky Mountaineer – Vancouver to Calgary
• Glacier Express – Zermat to St. Moritz
• West Highland – Glasgow to Mallaig
• Coast Starlight – Seattle to Los Angeles
• Venice-Simplon Orient Express – London to Vienna and Paris to Istanbul
• El Chope – Chihuahua to Topolobampo
• Eastern Orient Express – Malasia to Singapore
• Winnipeg to Churchill
• Trans Siberian

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