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5 months ago 06th Aug 16:31
From the landmarks that will make you do a double take, to the places that will provide the best traveller’s tales or photo opportunities, FemaleFirst are proud to present a guide to North America’s best off-the-beaten track sights.
Thanks to the leading group adventure tourist company in North America, TrekAmerica knows more than most about the continent’s quirkiest sights.
On Saturday 9th August, the Minnesota town of Darwin celebrates its annual Twine Ball Day to commemorate its greatest landmark – a giant ball of twine, four metres in diameter.
The ball was made by one man, Francis A. Johnson, who spent 23 weeks in 1950 painstakingly wrapping twine for four hours a day. Nowadays, the ball is proudly displayed in a Plexiglas gazebo so it can be viewed from all sides.
Forty years ago, in 1968, London Bridge was disassembled from its position over the Thames and reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
It remains one of the city’s most popular tourist attractions, largely spurred on by the urban myth that the American owner thought he was buying Tower Bridge…
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