In America, a monument does not always begin with a government committee, an architect, or a very large budget. Sometimes it begins with a promise, a collection of stones, a pile of old cars, or a bulldozer blade stopping at exactly the right moment. Today on Strange America, three places built or preserved because ordinary people decided that something unusual was worth the work. A devotional complex in Iowa. A family memorial made from automobiles in Nebraska. And a South Dakota museum that began with a mammoth tusk beneath a housing development. They are strange places. They are also very American ones.
In this episode:
• The Iowa Priest Who Built a City Block Out of Stones
• The Nebraska Stonehenge Made From American Cars
• The South Dakota Housing Project That Became a Mammoth Museum
