Pictures courtesy of Huge Nicely Museum

Are you craving a novel journey? Then head to Greensburg, Kansas, the positioning of the Huge Nicely Museum.

Right here you’ll discover the USA’ largest hand-dug nicely and an incredible testomony to human fortitude.

Town, positioned roughly 110 miles west of Wichita, was hit by a 1.7-mile-wide twister eighteen years in the past. The tornado’s practically 200 mph winds flattened many of the city, however, miraculously, the midwestern metropolis’s nicely, which measures 32 toes large and 109 toes deep, survived. At the moment, standing over the nineteenth-century nicely is a museum chronicling each its and Greensburg’s unbelievable comeback.

Journey down the nicely’s sunlit spiral staircase to the cool depths under. After making your means again up prime, soak up reveals that showcase town’s historical past and rebirth, together with a clock stopped on the precise time the catastrophe struck. Then get pleasure from chook’s-eye views of the rebuilt metropolis from the crow’s nest above.

Yet one more surprise right here is the half-ton Area Wanderer, the world’s second-largest pallasite meteorite. Composed of sparkly olivine crystals and steel, it was found in a close-by subject by a farmer greater than seventy-five years in the past. You too can study Greensburg’s many inexperienced initiatives—the group is now sustainability centered, boasting LED streetlights, electrical energy generated solely by wind energy, and a number of other LEED-certified public buildings, together with its metropolis corridor, Okay-12 college, and county hospital. It doesn’t matter what attracts you to this little midwestern city and its massive nicely, although, you’re positive to get pleasure from an expertise like no different.

For more information, go to bigwell.org