A Traveller’s Guide · First edition
You have already driven past most of it.
Within an hour of where you are sitting, something happened that you have never heard of. The building is still there. It is open. And you have gone past the turning for it more times than you can count.
This is the book that tells you which turning, and the story behind it. One hundred and five places across all fifty states, nine hundred words on what really happened at each one, and exactly how to walk in if you ever want to.
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What you are missing
If two of those four mean nothing to you, that is the entire argument for this book.
One is the largest city that existed in North America before Columbus, and it is eight miles from St Louis. One is a town the state of California deliberately stopped repairing and left exactly as it was. One was founded by freed slaves on the Kansas plains and is still there. One you have to see to believe.
None of them is hidden. All of them are open. Every one of them is either a drive you could make on a Saturday or an hour with your feet up, and the only reason you have done neither is that nobody ever told you they were there.
That is what you are buying: the list of turnings you have been driving past.
What people say
Real comments, real names, from under the films this book came out of. You can go and find every one of them.
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I’m 50 yrs old from Cleveland Ohio. And never knew this history of Euclid Beach. I just knew of a amusement park. Great informative Video
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Thoroughly enjoyed this! It should be mandatory viewing for those who ask: “How could our parents/grandparents have a house, car, kids, and take a vacation on a single salary?” Now you know.
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The year it closed was the year I graduated high school… a bunch of us went there after graduation… I only knew some of this history, but this historical video of the park is awesome. Thanks for posting!
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I’m 70 and spent my entire childhood and adult life of summer vacations in Wildwood. The very best of every memory I’ll ever have!
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This is possibly the best telling of this story. Well done. Good job!
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Well-done. I live here, and it’s been a great view and a chance to review their history. Learned new things.
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The book is new, so nobody has reviewed it yet. These are comments on the films, which is the same work in a different form and the only honest proof there is today. Buy it, tell me I am wrong, and take the refund.
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If you are not going anywhere
A hundred and five stories, nine hundred words each. The travelling is optional, and it always was.
Most people who buy this will get to five or six of them. A good many will get to none, and it will still be the best nineteen dollars they spend this year, because the stories are the product and the directions are the bonus.
Read one a night with the television off. Start with your own state and find out what happened where you have lived the whole time, usually inside an hour of your own front door.
Then you are the one at the table who knows that the oldest federal reserve in America is a row of bathhouses in Arkansas, and that everybody else has it wrong.
It is built to be read in pieces. Each place is a two-page spread, the story on one side and the practical half on the other, so you can read one and put it down, or read nine and lose the evening.
Nothing has to be read in order and nothing assumes you have been anywhere. No entry ends by telling you to go; each one ends by telling you what of the story is still standing, which is the satisfying part whether or not you ever see it.
And if it does put you in the car one Saturday, treat that as a bonus rather than the requirement.
Get it for $19.99Who wrote it
I make films about American places for a hundred thousand people, and this book came out of the same work.
Going somewhere ordinary, finding out what actually happened there, and discovering that the version everybody repeats has drifted a long way from the record. Three hundred films and thirty million views later, the thing that still surprises me is how often the true story is the better one.
Every entry was written from the place’s own sources. The national park, the state park, the museum, the railway, the city. Not from other guidebooks.
Because I would rather it was in a hundred thousand cars than in a thousand. A guidebook that nobody takes with them is a coffee-table book, and this one is meant to be open on the passenger seat with a coffee ring on it.
The launch price is the low one. It is not a permanent one, and the timer at the top is real.
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Most buyers will not, and it is still worth it. This is a hundred and five stories first and a set of directions second, written to be read in an armchair — one place a night, in any order, starting with your own state. If it never gets you further than the sofa it has done its job. The road trips are there for the minority who want them.
You can find some of it, mixed in with the version that is wrong, spread over forty tabs, with no opening hours and no idea which of it is true. That is the work this book already did. It is nineteen dollars.
Hours and prices change and the book says so plainly rather than pretending otherwise. Everything in it was checked in 2026, updates are free, and the buildings do not move.
Seven days, full refund, no questions, no form to fill in. You keep nothing and you lose nothing. The only thing you can actually lose here is the launch price.
No. Nothing in here is designed to make you feel bad about the country. These places are in the book because they are still standing and will still let you walk in.
It is a PDF, laid out at 7 by 10 inches. It reads well on a phone or tablet in the car and prints cleanly at home if you want a chapter with you. You get it immediately.
Last call
Every place in here survived, which is rarer than it sounds and is no promise about the next ten years. $19.99 today, $34.99 when the timer stops, and a seven-day refund either way — so the only decision you are really making is whether to pay the higher price later.
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