We drove around Branson to see the various oddities and famous landmarks. This place reminds us of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge ~ just lots of show places, water parks, mini golf, to name a few ~ everything geared to taking ones money. Most of the museums are over priced so we did not see them, even though they did sound interesting.
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| Ripley's Believe it or Not |
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| Huge Ferris Wheel |
No - we did not go on the ferris wheel. I just got a picture of it as we were driving by.
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| Airplane on a building |
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| Can you name the stars? Hollywood Wax Museum |
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| King Kong |
Yakov Smirnoff has a theater here in Branson and inside are his paintings. He is quite the artist and the middle picture below was displayed at Ground Zero.
Yakov calls this painting the "Face of Freedom." He states "This is how I remember her as I stood in her shadow, as fireworks lit up her face. I looked up into her eyes and realized that I was now an American and I had become a member of the most wonderful country club in the world! What a Country!
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| Yakov self portrait |
We went on a "tour" for a time share and sitting on the hillside of the subdivision was the actual police car that was used during the early years of The Andy Griffith Show in the sleepy make believe North Carolina town of "Mayberry." (A few years later, we visited Mt. Airy, North Carolina, home of Andy Griffith's Museum.)
Branson is situated right in the Ozark Mountains and rolling hills. Some of the roads are quite long and steep. The rock formations are pretty cool.
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