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Metro-Maturity brands cutting-edge fashion and lifestyle trends AgeVenture News Service 10-27-06 |
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Hampton's Hidden Landmarks Site Discloses Spookiest
Places to Visit on Halloween. Ever go to a fake Haunted House
during Halloween season and wish you could experience
the real thing? Hampton Hotels' "Hidden Landmarks"
site (www.hamptonlandmarks.com) gives the
Halloween-hungry ideas of the creepiest places to go
sure to give goose bumps.
Hidden Landmarks discloses the exact locations of both obscure and infamous American pop-culture phenomena, mapping out hard-to-find landmarks across the country related to a variety of themes. "With the weather cooling off and unique themed displays, Halloween and fall is a great time for families to get out and explore together," says Judy Christa Cathy, vice president of Hampton brand marketing. "The spookiness of Halloween delights kids and adults alike." A few of the ghoulish places include: Salem Witch Museum , Salem, Massachusetts. Visit the fascinating museum dedicated to one of the most peculiar times in American history, propelled by hysterical young girls screaming out names in fits of hysteria. She's a witch! Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast, Fall River, Mass. Stay at the actual house where Lizzie Borden brutally murdered her stepmother and father with 40 whacks of an axe. They're waiting. Amityville Horror House, Amityville, N.Y. See the house that inspired the bestselling novel, The Amityville Horror'A True Story, and the box office hit, The Amityville Horror. It's supposedly haunted by the ghosts of Ronald DeFeo's mother, father, two brothers and two sisters, whom he murdered with a high-powered rifle. Do you believe in ghosts? Winchester Mystery House, San Jose , California. Visit the haunted Victorian mansion designed by the late Sarah L. Winchester, which she worked on for thirty-eight years, until her death in 1922. It has oddities like staircases leading to the ceiling, windows in the floor, and a door that opens to an eight-foot drop into a kitchen sink. It's no wonder it was featured in 'Ripley's Believe it or Not.' Spook Hill, Lake Wales , Florida. Feel gravity defied as your car rolls uphill while in neutral, pulled by invisible forces. Legend has it that an Indian Chief killed a huge alligator that was raiding his village. Pioneer mail riders first discovered their horses laboring down hill, thus naming the spot "Spook Hill." When the road was paved, cars coasted up hill. Is this the gator seeking revenge, or is the chief still trying to protect his land. More ideas of where to go this Halloween, as well as more than 1,000 other hidden and lesser-known pop-culture landmarks, can be found at www.hamptonlandmarks.com. This one-of-a-kind site was developed with Chris Epting, author of "James Dean Died Here, Locations of America's Pop Culture Landmarks." Consumers can access landmark descriptions and locations by going directly to the Hidden Landmarks database, or through the brand's homepage, www.hamptoninn.com, and clicking on 'Landmarks.' The site will bring back a selection of landmarks by selected criteria'theme, region and/or state. It will also locate the nearest Hampton Inn hotel to the site, and allow a user to book a reservation immediately. In addition, the site contains pre-mapped out road trips, or 'DriveAbouts,' which give Point A to Point B online mapping for travelers looking to take a deeper look at America's pop culture and history, as well as information on roadside landmarks and Route 66 as part of the 'Explore the Highway with Hampton®, "Save-A-Landmark" program, which has been refurbishing roadside landmarks and historic sites for more than six years. Photo credits: Hilton's Hampton Hotels. Branding tag-lines: Dr. David J. Demko, Metro-Maturity, AgeVenture News Service. Dr. David Demko is a columnist for Blender magazine, and author of "Youth'n your life", "Boomers Zoomers & Beyond," and "The Original Death Calculator," and "Metro-Maturity"tm. AgeVenture welcomes submissions of innovative events, products, and services designed for Aging America. E-mail submissions to: demko@AgeVentureNewsService.com |