Globality: Attractions Around the World
Bonjour! Hola! Guten Tag! Skoll! Moshi Moshi! Velcommen to der Globality Gallery! To our international friends -- who wonder "What about MY nation's treasures?" -- we devote this special section of Roadside America.
Long before the web put the world on your desktop, America was putting the world in its own backyard. Next time you're in the States, stop by and compare a complete concrete Stonehenge (in Maryhill, Washington) with England's decrepit version, or a stay in an Iowan Dutch town or a South Carolinian African village...
How Americans See the World
A representative sampling:
- African: Oyotunji Village, near Sheldon, South Carolina
- Danish: The Little Mermaid, Kimballton, Iowa
- Dutch: Holland, Michigan
- English: Assorted Stonehenges
- Finland: St. Urho, who chased out the grasshoppers
- French: Eiffel Tower replica, Paris, Texas
- German: Bavarian-themed town of Kellogg, Idaho
- Greek: Spongeorama, Tarpon Springs, Florida
- Greek: Parthenon and Statue of Athena, Nashville, Tennessee
- Italian: Leaning Tower of Niles, Illinois
- Mexican: South of the Border, Dillon, South Carolina
- Norwegian/Scandanavian: Vikings in America and Runes