A one-to-one recreation of the set for Star Trek the Original Series
-Ticonderoga, NY
-- "Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. It's - five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new - civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." -
+The past-and-present radar station on Cape Cod
-North Truro, MA
-- In spite of quite literally everything about the surrounding environment suggesting - otherwise, this is not in fact a secret government super weapon or the home of a - villain about to be thwarted by a British secret agent. Yes, the building is backed - by a hundred foot cliff to a desolate ocean beach on one side and by an abandoned and - overgrown military complex on the other. Yes, the low shrubs and thin trees - surrounding the field are twisted and tangled and filled with thorns. And yes, the - near constant wind and fog means the landscape seems to be constantly changing around - you. But I can assure you that the enormously foreboding dome fifty feet above the - ground serves a perfectly mundane and actually quite beneficial purpose. -
+Wreck of a B-52 bomber deep in the backwoods of Maine
-Greenville, Maine
-- A little after noon on a windy day in January of 1963 a B-52C Stratofortress strategic - bomber took off from Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts. The flight was a - routine training mission intended to test a new low altitude approach radar system - in mountainous terrain, a technique that could provide an edge in what was then the - very real possibility of a mission in Soviet air space. Two hours into the flight the - team began the first of their simulated low altitude approaches over the south side - of Elephant Mountain in northern Maine, and about twenty minutes later disaster - struck. -
+Even the longest roads have to start somewhere
-Fort Kent, Maine
-- Two thousand three hundred and thirty nine miles away from Key West Florida is the - very beginning of US Federal Highway 1. From Fort Kent Maine it is possible to drive - all twenty three hundred miles south to Key West entirely on Route-1 making this the - longest continuous north-south road in America. -
+A bit of Central Park in northern Vermont
-Shelburne, VT
-- Shelburne Farms is a fourteen hundred acre educational working farm space on the - eastern shores of Lake Champlain. Since it's establishment in 1972 the farm has - provided fresh produce and dairy to the local area and educational resources to - people from all over. The farmstead was built as a testbed of sustainable living and - offers educational programs on everything from bovine healthcare and grain storage, - all the way to solar panel installation and water recycling. -
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