March 03, 2008
Alternate History
Michael Eastman's Vanishing America
Worth 1000 Alternate History
Breaking news: Oral sex-related cancer at 30-year high
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February 13, 2008
No shirt, No Shoes, No Service
Selected World War I Draft Registration Cards: Famous, Infamous, and Interesting. (From Great War Fiction)
From “Twenty million illegals can’t be wrong” to “Some are more equal than others”, and 1200 plus others - Stephen Dubner (of Freakonomics fame) organizes a contest: Write a six-word motto for the USA
Detroit is beautiful, a flickr set. (From Natali Fisher)
Florence (Owens) Thompson, otherwise known as the Migrant Mother, as told by her grandson
Feb. 5, 1897: Egged on by an amateur mathematician, the Indiana General Assembly almost passes a bill adopting 3.2 as the exact value of pi (or π)
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November 30, 2007
PIN’s Revealed
A virtual tour of four historic homes in the Atlanta - If These Walls Could Speak
Every teenager dreams of working in a giant warehouse full of discarded nuclear test equipment… The Los Alamos Laboratory Salvage Yard
Top 101 U.S. Cities, Counties, and Zip Codes Lists
Everybody's PIN Number Revealed: Someone actually wrote in requesting an explanation as to how this thing works.
"Sorry, we do not reveal our trade secrets."
How to wear a American Flag Pin
Jimmy Carter, cat murderer
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October 05, 2007
Code of the West
I know there are state songs, but I thought it might be a lot more interesting to compile a list of songs that mention states in the title. 50 states in 50 songs. Also, sharing the beauty of 50 states
The tourist guy, one of the world’s most famous photos
First chronicled by the famous western writer, Zane Grey, in his 1934 novel The Code of the West, no "written" code ever actually existed. However, the hardy pioneers who lived in the west were bound by these unwritten rules that centered on hospitality, fair play, loyalty, and respect for the land. (From Maggie’s Farm)
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July 18, 2007
And the rocket's red glare - Lots of bombs in the air
10MPH, a documentary about 3 people crossing the US on Segways
Colorful Newsstands Around Houston. (From All Things Cool)
Can you name all the U.S. Presidents?
(Also, Enrico Palazzo Sings the Anthem)
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June 21, 2007
The story of Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi
In 1791 and 1792, Andrew Ellicott and his surveying team placed 40 boundary stones around the perimeter of the District of Columbia, one at each mile of the original diamond shape…
Brookline ♥ U on Google Earth
Artist Kim Dingle asked teen-aged school kids in Las Vegas to draw their country in the shape they thought it had. The result is The United Shapes of America
The True Story of the Statue of Liberty, at Neatorama
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May 01, 2007
Pop. 100
The Theodore Roosevelt Renovation of 1902. (From The White House Museum. Thank you, BW)
The rivalry between The Jets & The Sharks - West Side Story: America
The Library of Congress has purchased the only known copy of a rare World Map that sheds a teeny ray of light on the discovery and naming of America. The price tag was $10 million. Often referred to as America's Birth Certificate, this 1507 Waldseemüller Map was the first to show the continents of North and South America, and the first to show the name America. (From the new Library of Congress Blog)
Complete List of Old West Gunfights
The Official Website of The United States of America (USA. From Link Bitch)
Design of the New U.S. e-Passport
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March 30, 2007
New Life For Biloxi's Live Oaks
Four live oak trees in the median of U.S. Highway 90 Biloxi that died as a result of hurricane Katrina received new life at the hands of a skilled chain saw artist
Flood Wall. New Orleans artist Jana Napoli collected hundreds of drawers from the flooded and abandoned neighborhoods in the days and months that followed
Map your planned trip from Fort Dick, California to Dickeyville, Wisconsin, and other interesting road trips you can make in the United States
4/30/07 Update: Chainsaw artist above is Dayton Scoggins
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February 16, 2007
I also have a dream
Map of U.S. Highways in 1927
Test your Typing Speed with the Gettysburg Address
The Federalist Papers: Pamphlets published by Madison, Hamilton and John Jay
Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence
What would happen if you were to connect all the ZIP codes in the US in ascending order? Is there a system behind the assignment of ZIP codes? Are they organized in a grid? The result is surprising and much more interesting than expected
Historic trees of Texas. (From Texas Escapes)
1924: a group portrait of members of Canon City KKK on and around the ferris wheel in Canon City, Colorado
Welcome to Google U.S. Government Search
20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA. No 1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. No 3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers
Armed america: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes
(No time to blog tonight. Sorry)
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January 16, 2007
Bisonheads
In October 2003 the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission placed 200,000 of Enron's internal emails from 1999-2002 into the public domain as part of its ongoing investigations. The archive offers an extraordinary window into the lives and preoccupations of Enron's top executives during a turbulent period
Photograph from the mid-1870s of a pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer
Old buildings that have been moved in Montgomery, Alabama
Old Humarock, MA Post Card Presentation
New York Songlines. A Virtual Walking Tours of Manhattan Streets. (From Miss Representation)
Re-post: Talking to Americans - Aussie Edition
Breaking news: A man who won $315 million on Christmas 2002 is now broke!
** Unrelated: What Happened to Me on Friday **
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November 09, 2006
Dip Dogs & Caramel Corn
Sideshows, carnivals and circuses at Sideshow World
Chicago pet store or strip club - can you tell?
Anchorage at the PM
Ground Zero, September 13, 2001
American Neon & TV at The National Portrait Gallery
The infamous Soapy Smith was an American 19th century bunco man, par excellence. King of the frontier confidence men, organizer of gangsters and grifters, master crook, and overlord of the criminal underworld in Denver and Creede, Colorado. The Soapy Smith Preservation Trust
Welcome to Middle-Class Lockdown, by Joe Bageant
Did you say goodbye to The Habeas Corpus Act of 1679?
(Pix above from Society for Art of Imagination)
Unrelated Cute Kitten YouTube Post
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October 07, 2006
Western Avenue
The Punch Below The Belt is a 1945 U.S. Military pamphlet, designed to train soldiers in the waning days of the war in the Pacific. Specifically, the text focuses on the nature of the tactics employed by the Japanese, characterized as deceptive & underhanded
Chicago’s Western Avenue And Vicinity Gallery. Chicago's most vibrant art scene is not to be found in the galleries of River North or Wicker Park, but stretching along the city's longest street, Western Avenue. The work in this spontaneous gallery is unpretentious and, for the most part, unheralded
From the book Trademarks of the 20s & 30s, 80-year-old goatse
“Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology” and 14 other top Quotes about Americans
Free Idiocracy. Read the Movie you can't see
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September 08, 2006
11/10/01
Shocked Witness Reactions to the second plane. From Killtown’s WTC Crash Videos site
9/11 flythrough Cockpit view of AA flight 11
Views of Ground Zero at approximately 9:00 AM on September 11, 2001
102 Minutes - Chronology of the towers
Space Imaging of digital archive of pre- and post-attack images of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. (Click on each pix to biggify)
The 5 minutes gap at The Emma T. Booker Elementary School
In other news: Vanna Whitewall, The Giant Bikini Woman of Peoria, Illinois
Over 150 of Vermont's Painted Theater Curtains
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July 23, 2006
“God Loves Americans”
America The Beautiful - State Flowers by Jacquie Lawson
Thirty years ago, if two 15-year-old girls were hitchhiking through Yellowstone, unaccompanied, it would be incumbent on them to prove THEY were harmless. Not the driver picking them up
Scott LoBaido, the only patriotic conceptual artist is painting American flags on fifty rooftops in fifty states. (From Pajamas Media)
Flickr pool of Martin Luther King Jr. Ways across the country
Photos from Denali National Park. (Thank you, Charlotte)
Your Don't Have to Be A Star, sung by Jan and Greg Brady (?). YouTube
An exhibit of panoramic photographs from The National Archives
The Leaning Tower of Niles and other enchanting eccentricities that make Chicago unlike anyplace else
God Loves Marines (and he hates the people they kill)...
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July 02, 2006
The Buck Stops
In a similar vain to the Cows and Pigs and Penguins on parade that I posted last week, here is “The Presidential Walk” in Rapid City, South Dakota Life size American Presidents
(Last month I read David McCullough's wonderful biography of Harry Truman. What a dedicated personality & vision in a president)
Hi Resolution Gallery of The Twin Towers on 9/11/01
History of The Pennsylvania Turnpike. (From John's Blog)
White Sands, New Mexico
After the Flood - New Orleans in September 2005
Gathering of Nations Native American Powwow, including Miss Indian World
10 foods that make America great
Travels With Charley: In Search of America
Do you have what it takes to become a US citizen? I scored 85% - Woot
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June 01, 2006
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing
Memorial Day Special at “Swapatorium”
Here Comes Summer. (Click "next" again & again)
How Well Do You Speak Cowboy?
America Two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956
I can't stand my own mind
Presidential Zippos. Zippos were often used as presentation gifts and to commemorate Presidential events
The White House Tapes. Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations
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April 29, 2006
Loss of natural teeth
Zacarias Moussaoui's INS arrest photo and all public exhibits from the Moussaoui trial documents. (Thank you, Avi Solomon)
Outtakes - Remote villages in the New England countryside
Whatever Happened to Standard Oil? A History of the Standard Oil Company
Facsimile of Walt Whitman's 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass
Motorcycling from California to the East Coast and back
Comparative chart of Oral health in all 50 states
Jim Pendleton's Barnhouse is no more. One of Owen County's more unusual landmarks has been reduced to ashes.The five-story, 70-foot-tall Barn House, on County Road 850 West just off Ind. 46, burned to the ground
Vote for Kinky. Thank you, Derek
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March 10, 2006
I'll be waiting at the station
Where will you be if you catch the last train to Clarksville?
“I'm doing an article on US State Tattoos - tattoos that include a picture of the state outline in one form or another. If you have one and are willing to talk about it, please email me…”
According to NetState, twelve U.S. states have an official State Dinosaur official dinosaur, nine have an official dog-breed and two have an official doughnut. (From "Quotidian Hell”)
From “Images of American Political History”, a letter of 1626 stating that Manhattan Island had been purchased for the value of 60 guilders
I went to the Billy Graham crusade at Flushing Meadows Carona Park up in Queens this June knowing that the Westboro Baptist Church would be there
Welcome to Intercourse, Lancaster County
New American Farmers. Photographs by M. Scott Brauer
In Mid-Air. A small show of photos of people (and animals) caught hanging in mid-air. (From Square America Snapshots & Vernacular Photography)
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January 30, 2006
Democracy in America
Seattle Waterfront 2002-1907. Two panoramic photographs of the waterfront of Seattle, Washington, taken from the same vantage point - 95 years apart
Squint Eyes, artist and Indian Scout
Charts, diagrams & information graphics from Karl Hartig
Top 100 Lists of cities, including highest income, least crime, newest houses, most females, shortest commute, best educated residents, and many more
Erik Gauger’s Notes from the Road, a project in experimental travel writing
Motel Hell. Tacky and trashy Motel postcards of the 1950's, 60's and 70's
Due to the popularity of "The Smart-Ass Guide to NYC", Dan Meth created this national version of Smart-Ass Guide to the USA
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Stabilized version of the Zapruder film of the Kennedy Assassination. (From Kottke. Slow load)
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November 26, 2005
The 51st state: The state of denial
The Farm. Their parents left San Francisco 30 years ago to build a utopia in rural Tennessee. Now some of the products of that grand experiment - their children - have come back. (From ”Whippleworld”)
Christian Exodus is coordinating the move of thousands of Christians to South Carolina for the express purpose of re-establishing Godly, constitutional government. It is evident that the U.S. Constitution has been abandoned under our current federal system, and the efforts of Christian activism to restore our Godly republic have proven futile over the past three decades. The time has come for Christians to withdraw our consent from the current federal government and re-introduce the Christian principles once so predominant in America to a sovereign State like South Carolina
The History of 4-H in Florida! (From Happy Palace)
The Field Guide to the North American Bird
Invented landscapes by Carlos Diaz
Another American I’m not familiar with: Stephen Sondheim
Robert Clark travels around the US taking photos with a Sony Ericsson s710a
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September 11, 2005
The insanity is over
Standin' On The Corner in Winslow, Arizona
A great Andy Rooney eulogy to New Orleans
Photography by Christa Renee
A Most Merry and Illustrated History of the Hippies
Texas Bird’s-Eye Views, over 300 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century “bird’s-eye views”. (From ”Just Orb”)
The annual Re-post of "Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over" - Now more than ever, even more eerily accurate. Read & weep
Junk Train by Troy Paiva
Smalltown, USA. Photographs by Michael Jang
Photograph above from Crazy Canadian girl. Many More Unusual Stories about America Here
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September 05, 2005
'My Pet Goat' -- The Sequel
The Flood of 1973. (From Elaine Duvekot)
The last line of defense - The old levees & flood gates of New Orleans
Gone with the water - "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees". Dated: October 2004
Thinking Big About Hurricanes- It's time to get serious about saving New Orleans. Dated: May 23, 2005
Making dreams possible. Enter a world where the time you spend with an Arabian horse is the best part of your day
FEMA Rap for Kidz:
Disaster . . . it can happen anywhere,
But we've got a few tips, so you can be prepared
For floods, tornadoes, or even a 'quake,
You've got to be ready - so your heart don't break.
Disaster prep is your responsibility
And mitigation is important to our agency
(From ”J-Walk”)
Preparing America: In the event of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other large-scale emergency, the Department of Homeland Security will assume primary responsibility on March 1st for ensuring that emergency response professionals are prepared for any situation
“This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times
We told you so - Steve Gilliard is extremely angry. And so is Paul Krugman: The Can't-Do Government. So is Michael Moore: The Vacation is Over ... an open letter to Bush
Meanwhile, Halliburton hired for storm cleanup, and American People Shrug, Line Up For Fingerprinting. At least, "New Orleans is now Mardi Gras free!"
Hurricane Katrina on flickr
Many More Links about America Before Katrina Here
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July 19, 2005
All Along The Water Tower
Needlepoint pillows of six South American Communist Heroes
Early 20th-century postcards manufactured for the Fourth of July were very popular. Thousands of colorful cards featured such themes as Uncle Sam, the Goddess of Liberty, eagles, cannons, flags, liberty bell, fireworks, Statue of Liberty, Native Americans, Revolutionary War figures, nautical subjects, and the nation's founders. (From ”Neurasthenia”)
Water Towers from Across the US
1856 – The Arabia Steamboat Museum
North Dakota Governors, from “The State Historical Society of North Dakota”
Yankee or Dixie? Quiz: 0% is pure Yankee and 100% is pure Dixie. (From Hattie’s blog)
A little late: 4th of July Celebrations from around the world
The United States Christian Flag - Let the redeemed of the Lord say so! (From ”Bifurcated Rivets”)
"Healing Field" of 3,031 Flages in Sandy, Utah remembers the victims of September 11
Farnsworth House Inn, Gettysburg, PA
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June 26, 2005
Flag Day
Abandoned Railroads of the US. Thousands of miles of railroads have been abandoned in the United States, much of it in the last 30 years. All of these railroad lines have a history and a story. This web site is dedicated to the preservation of the history of each of these former railroad lines. (From Brian Sherrill)
Odes to Detroit. It's not quite as ubiquitous a topic as love, but Detroit has been the subject of more than 80 songs in the past 50 years
Historical Images from Palisades Amusement Park, Fort Lee, NJ
Freedom Rides. Recollections of Montgomery, AL by David Fankhauser
Matthew Baldwin’s Proposed Constitutional Amendment
"Grain Prices Suck!" North Dakota farmer expresses dissatisfaction with crop prices by carving a message in grain field
The Gallery of American Documentia of the 80’s from the Gonzo® Institute. “The 1980's was like having your computer crash over and over again...”
A cameraman at Yalta tells what it was like to spend a few days in claustrophobic luxury with Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt—and to be offered a job by Joseph Stalin
Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803). One of 100 Milestone documents
Happy Flag Day - “Officer, arrest this man!” Also, Flag infographics by Brazilian artist Icaro Doria
Wanted Cowgirls. If you're lookin' for a pistol packin' cowgirl, lady gunfighter, western bad girl gunslinger, woman outlaw, bandit queen, two gun female sharpshooter, Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Cattle Kate or Belle Starr - you've come to the right place
Nebraska - in single frames by “Robots on strike”
Today's top three examples of Americans being dumb
Searching Google Images for gangsta gets you more pictures of white people making gang signs than you can shake a stizzick at…
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June 07, 2005
Hippie Salad
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded in 1925 by A. Philip Randolph and others. It was the nation's first African-American union. The Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters “George” (SPCSCPG)
Mill Ends Park, Portland, OR: Smallest park in the world - 452 square inches
Images of Walt Whitman
Trippie Dick. (From “Worth 1000” contest If Hippies Ruled)
Charles Phoenix’s “God Bless Americana” slide shows
Mom, Home & Apple Pie Songs. “Molecular Expressions” Microscopic shot of Apple Pie Yogurt
A map reducing the U.S. to 38 States
The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Welcome to the Republic of Cascadia Homepage. Now is the time for the citizens of Cascadia to demand their freedom from the oppressive governments of Canada and the United States. For too long have our people put up with indifference and condescendence from distant seats of power. We have been subject to francophonic imperialism and wasteful spending of our tax money. Our entrepreneurs have been attacked by the so-called justice system for merely doing their jobs and growing our economy. When will we say enough is enough? (From Charlie ‘Vruba’ Loyd)
Life in the USA, a complete guide to American life for immigrants and Americans. By Elliot Essman
The Evolution of the American Front Porch
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May 21, 2005
America in the 30’s
America as it was, a tour of the US in Vintage Postcards, (By Atlanta Realtor Pat Sabin. It’s odd that only a few other Realtors bothered to develop extensive sites for the areas where they sell homes. A nice exception is the local Historic Anaheim Colony by Meghan Shigo)
Also, Old Postcards of Motels
Strange detail on the West Palm Beach FL Google map
Welcome to the Michigan Accent Pronunciation Guide: it is DAMNED cold in Michigan, so you have got to conserve energy. Consequently, the right way to speak "Michigin" is to
1. talk fast,
2. slur your words together, and
3. clip all your hard consonants, like "t". Someone smarter than me calls this a "glottal stop".
“I love the 30’s” Presents Episode 1: The Lindberg Baby Kidnapping
Animation of county boundaries for 1650, 1700, 1750, and census years from 1790 onward
North American Railcar Operators Association. (Thank you, Michael)
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March 01, 2005
The Taming of the Sioux
Our wonderful escrow lady, Angela Curran, is the grand-daughter of journalist and photographer Frank Bennett Fiske who lived in Fort Yates, Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota, and who was famous at the beginning of the last century, documenting the lives of the local Indians there. Here is some information about his art and life:
The Frank Bennett Fiske collection at The Library of Congress
Mandan Medicine Lodge about 1900
Elsewhere: Famous Native American Indian Chiefs, Warriors and Shamans: 170 Chiefs & Leaders listed
Vietnam War Zippos (From Zippo Gallery, a site for Zippo lovers)
The Dirty 30s!, a pulp sourcebook for any RPG based in the 1930s, by Paul Romine
Intolerable Beauty — Portraits of American Mass Consumption, by Chris Jordan. (From Wood s lot)
The Geographic Center of the U.S., near Lebanon, KS
2 from “Pratie Place”: Jewish pirates save Louisiana and “He waits on his porch for his teacher to pick him up”, 100-year-old George Dawson learns to read
The Salem Witch Trials: Transcription of the Court Records
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Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “Robot Wisdom”. Jorn Barger, The original weblogger, is back in business. I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish
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February 10, 2005
Covered Bridges
Here’s a good one: Over time there have been anywhere from 3,000 to 16,000 covered bridges in the US, depending on who's doing the estimating. Today fewer than 800 remain. Here’s a bunch of links about the subject from various states:
The Covered Bridges of Madison County - of the original 19 covered bridges, five remain today
Covered Bridge Facts from engineer consultant Phillip C. Pierce
From New England: Vermont's Covered Bridges, the Covered Bridges of New Hampshire, of Maine and Connecticut's historic bridges
Kentucky Covered Bridge Association
New York State Covered Bridge Society
Covered Bridges from Ohio Barns
In Virginia, only eight covered bridges are known to still stand. Five have been preserved as landmarks and three are on private property. The total number of covered bridges built in West Virginia is unknown. There were still more than 54 remaining in the 1950's. By 1979 only 19 remained. Today, there are 17
Dilapidated and Former Covered Bridged in Tennessee
The 23 covered bridges in Columbia County, PA. Others: Bedford County, PA and Lehigh County
Round Barns and Covered Bridges by Dale J. Travis. Don’t overlook the Mona Lisa on barns, Flags on buildings and Interesting Tractors sections
flickr slide show of covered bridges in Georgia. Historic Covered Bridges of Georgia
A Guide To Covered Bridges in Lane County, Oregon
Covered Bridges of Chester County PA – Photographs by Steve Fredrick. Stock photographs by John S Murray
Covered Bridges of California Counties: Californians can flaunt the uniqueness of their covered bridges: the tallest; the only one with three distinct roof lines; the only covered bridge installed backwards and the longest covered bridge. Bridges of Santa Cruz
And elsewhere, in Canada: Covered Bridges in New Brunswick
The Covered Bridges of Nova Scotia
The Hartland Covered Bridge, the longest covered bridge in the world
Virtual evening panorama of the Kapellbruecke in Lucerne, (Switzerland)
Cecil Adams answers: Why are covered bridges covered?
The National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges
A Smithsonian Institution Tour: Spanning the American Landscape