Metropolis is a quaint little town that realizes its bread and butter is Superman tourism. The whole town can be visited in half a day, but it's adorable that the area has embraced the Man of Steel in every way they can. The most famous landmark is the Superman statue outside of the courthouse, but there are plenty of photo op places around town.
The Lois Lane statue is a few blocks up the road, but the lesser known landmark is the Kryptonite the other direction outside the abandoned Hollywood Museum. There used to be a Daily Planet globe outside of the newspaper, but that sculpture has been moved in front of Lois now since I think the newspaper went out of business.
The Super Museum has plenty of photo ops outside of the building and a wide array of Superman souvenirs inside. The museum itself has gathered just about every collectible item having to do with Superman you can imagine. And I'd forgotten how many shows based on some aspect of the Superman lore there actually were. The sheer volume of STUFF is overwhelming.
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One of the ride or dies and I went on a road trip through southern Illinois over the weekend. So many cool places there that I weren't expecting. We stayed maybe 10 minutes away from the Kincaid Mounds, a remote Native American site that is surprisingly untouched for it being so large. I've been to a lot of mound sites and generally the parks or historical societies go overboard trying to make the site a tourist attraction or informative. This site is really just in a field with some signs around it and nothing else, which wouldn't be so surprising except for how large the mounds are. These aren't burial mounds, but I've seen several parks built entirely around town mounds less impressive than this so I was surprised how untouched this site was.
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AuthorA librarian who likes to travel and experience life. CategoriesArchives
June 2022
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