Wild Travels
Episode 203
LIBRARY STRADDLING US/CANADIAN BORDER Derby Line, VT
The US/Canadian border runs right through Vermont's Haskell Library & Opera House, which makes it the only place you can check out a book, catch a show and defect to a foreign country without ever leaving the building.
PROFESSIONAL GOLF BALL DIVER Kissimmee, FL
We found a guy who makes a living off the misery of others, specifically off their miserable golf shots. You see, Jeffrey Bleim is a professional golf ball diver, and he's been fishing balls (and golf clubs and loaded guns) out of murky golf course ponds for close to thirty years.
SCULPTOR DR. CHARLES SMITH Hammond, LA
Dr. Charles Smith is an avid sculptor who has turned his front yard into an open air gallery for his work. He calls it The African American Heritage Museum & Black Veterans Archive, and even that lengthy name can't begin to capture the breadth of his collection.
PALACE OF GOLD New Vrindiban, WV
The hills of West Virginia might seem an unlikely place for a Hare Krishna colony, but there it is, New Vrindaban, home to about 200 ponytails and the magnificent Palace of Gold.
WORLD'S ONLY SMOG MUSEUM Donora, PA
If environmental protection has a birthplace, it's probably this small town in Pennsylvania's Monongahela Valley, where 27 people died on an incredibly polluted weekend in 1948. You can find out all about it at a place we just had to visit -- The Donora Smog Museum