Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” Here we are hanging out in this place that we have not abandoned. And we have not abandoned it. But we’re talking about destinations that are abandoned. And some of them can be fake. Others can be real. And when they’re real, our minds will be blown. And when they’re fake, we’ll be like, “I knew it. I knew it couldn’t be real.” That’s exactly how it’s gonna go. I like looking at abandoned places on like Instagram. It’s called like Ruin Porn. Yeah, that’s what I watch. Merchicality, we land on this. We give somebody $30 to spend over at mythical.com. Oh wow, how generous of us. Because they’re repping that mythical merch in the wild. You can buy some key chains. This ones going out to Makenzie Mills. Makenzie, you done it again. Makenzie! Look at you. Wow, just doing it. Rep merch, get merch. There it is. Oh, it was the color changing mug. Yes it was, congratulations. Spend that $30 wisely. Makenzie drinking some tea. All right, so we got our paddles. We’re ready to go. Don’t you lie to me, it’s your birthday. How much do you know about abandoned places? Voices? Places, hmm, places. Well, if you go into an abandoned house like- I look at them on Instagram. In North Carolina and like next to a field, someone will have taken a full wall and drawn a really anatomically incorrect, very explicit woman. Yeah. Oh, I thought you were gonna say penis. No, actually it’s much less likely to see that. It’s much more likely to see someone’s approximation of a tunnel- Well, skip round one then. Okay, all right. Yeah, we saw that. Many times. Next to my nanny’s house, there was an abandoned house with murals. Hobbiton. Educational. Hobbiton in Phillipsvile, California. Erected sometime in the mid 1970s, Hobbiton, USA attempted to grab onto the then ascendant popularity of Tolkien’s fantasy novels. It was originally a short nature walk that took visitors through the story of the Hobbit. That’s cool. Via cement tableaus of key scenes and characters. But today, all that remains of the attraction are a sparse bit of faded ruins. I’m gonna go with Hobbiton. I think this is real. This is true because I mean, Lord of the Rings, you know, it’s old. I mean, it’s that many thousands of years old. And the type of person that would be into Lord of the Rings like before the movies is like they really, they’re real fans. And they like to work with- Enough to build something. Concrete visages and stuff like that, yeah. Yes, it was real and it was shut down in 2009. And you can still see that there’s, Oh, there’s a Gandalf statue. It kinda looks like a very sad, abandoned putt putt place, you know? The reason that it doesn’t work actually ironically is because of the movies, right? Before we saw Peter Jackson’s sort of imagined Hobbiton with the way the houses were, you might think, “Oh, it could have looked something like this like a cave.” But then he does it in a very particular way, and now this Hobbiton won’t work. Well, back then there was an animated version that was more vintage. But that, I don’t think that was in the ’70s though. I think it may have been early ’80s. I mean, there was a lot of artwork that then they based the movies off of so, like. That’s true. This is just… Did you watch that at school? I watched that as a kid. I watched it at home or at school. I never watched it, no. I watched the Hobbit. I remember just thinking that was the best thing ever. One for one, credit to Brenna for those photos. Yeah, Brenna. Thank you Brenna. The one and only, and she’s the Madonna of photography. The world’s largest toe ring, in of course, Portland. Toe ring Toe ring. What would this look like? And it’s been abandoned. In 2011. So there’s no toe in it. A giant sculpture of a human foot was erected in Downtown Portland. The foot was made to only have the middle toe pointed upwards with a large toe ring wrapped around it. Some found it offensive, but most just found it confusing. So it wasn’t long before it was removed and abandoned in the nearby woods. So the whole thing with the toe and the ring? Or just the ring was removed and thrown in the woods? I believe the whole thing, it was removed from where it was in Downtown Portland. And put in the woods? So it wasn’t abandoned, it was trashed. Well listen, we need to use loose definitions here. This feels, I don’t know. There’s a lot of holes in this. Are they gonna show us a picture of like a foot in the woods? This is a lie. I thought this was a good fake out, but apparently not. It didn’t get us, we’re so sly. Land of Oz in Beech Mountain, North Carolina. Oh, been there. Have you? Skiing. Oh to Beech Mountain? Land of Oz was a Wizard of Oz Theme Park that opened in 1970. It was a roaring success in the first year or so but the novelties soon were off and the park began to lose money. In December, 1975, the Emerald City section of the park burned down. Rumor has it that disgruntled former employees were responsible. Many artifacts were destroyed including Dorothy’s original dress worn by Judy Garland in the movie. No way, was it Dorothy’s original dress? Beech mountain? Beech mountain? No way, but you know what? I think it’s true. You think it’s true? There’s no way they would, I mean, Beech Mountain that’s where we would go on our like church ski trips. Are you locked in? You’re locked in no matter what I say now? Are you locked in or are you gonna change your answer? I’m locked in. This is real. You’ve been there? Somebody sent me, somebody sent this to me and was like “You guys should do something. There’s this Oz in North Carolina.” And I was like, I don’t know about this. I can’t believe they, all right, is it real? Yeah, it’s real. They had Judy Garland’s dress? Had a yellow brick road, yeah. So that yellow brick road that’s like a more recent picture. Like that’s still up there. Well, I guess that they, like some of the stuff’s still there and they use it like occasionally for an event, but like as an amusement park or as a theme park, it’s just non operational. I love stuff like this man. And it’s right there in Beech Mountain. We could just go right over there, because we used to live in North Carolina, which means we could fly to North Carolina where we used to live, and then travel to that. And be like, “Hey, we’re here. We used to live in this state.” With David Hill. Does that give us any rights to trespass? No. I love that you’re that intrigued by yellow bricks. I just, I love the idea of just doing unexpected weird stuff in woods. We loved, I mean, we would find like structures in the woods all the time, like farm structures, houses, all types of stuff. And we would go all through there. It’s just like building your own little fantasy. Like second stories of buildings that were crumbling. It’s like not smart, but we left on skate. We loved it, we learned a lot. I mean, I’ve told you this and I’ll tell you again, ’cause I’m about to say it. One time, even when we were like older, we were like we would take walks like when we worked over there in Cary and we would leave and we’d walk around and there was this abandoned two story house and we went in the second story and there wasn’t anything up there, except a pamphlet on the ground. And we picked it up and it said, “what you get with men.” And I love to talk about it. Right. Every time I get a chance, I’m talking about what you get with men. What you get with men. And I’ll tell you what you get with men. Like not a lot of clothes. But quite a bit of wiener. Yeah, I gotta say after looking at the pamphlet, I wasn’t interested. But I Totally agree with it. I don’t for some reason recall this story. So you’re not giving. What you get with men. What do you mean not a lot of clothes? They were making it, it was porn. It was a porn. It was a porn pamphlet. Called what you get with men? What you get with men. Yes. That was a pamphlet? It was like a pamphlet type thing. It was like a little- It was like a roadside advertisement. Like a little magazine, it had multiple pages. For men. But it was like shaped like this kinda. And it was a leaflet. It was a leaflet. You could leaf through it. I think it was dropped from a plane. Wow, were you already hitting that? What you get with men . That was so fast. That’s what you get. Yeah, that was dropped from Chase’s birthday plane, they call it. You know this is gonna be a gif. Area 69. I’m done. Twinkle fingies. That’s pretty funny. Got a real kick outta that. I’m just gonna go with abandon, but I love it. Tell us about it, Stevie Tell us all about it . It’s the first time he’s laughed. . Intergalactic Erotic Art Museum. It’s 10 miles outside of Area 51 in Nevada. This outdoor desert art installation featured sculptures in various stages of love making along with rocket ships resembling phalluses. After a surprising lack of public interest, the museum was shut down. Though eight years later, some sculptures can still be seen in the middle of the desert today. Desert folk will put some scantily clad. Are you locked in? ‘Cause I have something to tell you. I’m locked in, you been there? I really hope this exists. We found a naked lady statue out in the desert out near Death Valley. Remember that? Yeah. It’s like a 30-foot-tall naked lady with, she is not shorn, if you know what I mean. But you’re saying fake. I think this is fake. I was already locked in. Real. I was locked in. It is fake, but it should totally be real. It could totally be real. It would do great business. I think so. I’m not just saying this ’cause it’s Stevie’s birthday but check out a podcast with Neagheen. Season three is out. Who are you talking to over there on “Best Friend’s Back Alright,” Stevie? You never know. Some experts? Some experts, some celebrities, some just ourselves. Just a grab bag full of podcast fun. That’s the tag That got me interested. Grab bag full of podcast fun, live episode from Mythicon’s over there. Catch up on seasons one and two, “Best Friends Back All right.” Holy Land USA. You already know this one. We already know that one. This is true. It’s real, let’s just see the pictures. Okay, so this is, where is this? It’s in Connecticut, which seems old. So it’s Jerusalem. What’s the scale of this? What’s the other one say. It opened in the fifties and stayed in business for 35 years. I can’t, so the scale is like what like quarter size? Like it’s really hard to tell how big that is. Well, it has a 56-foot steel cross that can be seen for miles. Yeah, but that pro, you don’t have that in I bet you can walk through that. So it might be, I mean the one on the picture on the right kind of tells you this is all like in miniature Which kind of makes it cooler. Yeah, it does, makes it a lot cool. But it’s abandoned now. When was it abandoned? Like 85 ish. ‘Cause it said open the fifties, stay in business for 35 years. I would love- It says- To stumble upon this, this would be cool. They tried to open the park again in 2014 but it’s still not open. Oh, okay. There’s a lot of little things like this that in the couple of road trips that I’ve taken in the past couple years, you know, you go on Atlas Obscura and you try to find places to stop. I gotta say that- Hit or miss. Yeah, it’s almost very, very often a disappointment. You know, there’s like a little miniature, little town in North Carolina. Like as you’re coming down from like we stopped in Virginia and then we kind of came down and like you cross over the border and there’s like this little town, it’s like it’s on Atlas Obscura and it looks kind of cool and you get there and you’re kinda like in somebody’s yard and like it’s just like there’s a bunch of little houses and you’re kind of like, okay, let’s go, you know what I mean? So I don’t, this looks cooler than that. So you’re not recommending Atlas Obscura it sounds like? No, I’m just saying some stuff is cool but most of the time you get to something that’s really cool, they’re like, “Oh, you can’t go there, it’s closed to the public.” You know, like Area 69, closed to the public, Like going in like abandoned farm silos, always wanted to do that. Oh, we used to do that. Those silos over next to. They kept them at the Keith Hill’s golf course. They kept those. Oh, they’re still there. They like kept the silos up. Stone Cats Nike Missile Site in Richmond, California. Stone Cats. Stone Cats Nike Missile site was originally an anti-aircraft missile launchpad used during the Cold War. An anti-aircraft missile launchpad, okay? But today the abandoned site is home to several stone cat sculptures placed there by a mysterious artist. The equipment and structures were torn down and removed long ago. All that remains are the mysterious Stone Cats. And I don’t know the Nike part. Yeah, Nike Missile site, okay. Well, there’s lots of those. There’s some near here. What does that mean? Anti-aircraft missile launch pad. Like a sponsored site, it means something else. When did the shoe start? The shoes started in the like late 60s, early 70s I think. Okay. The missiles themselves are called Nike. It’s a Goddess. It’s a Goddess, right, or a God or something. Oh, you’re talking about a Goddess. I missed that, I was talking about a Missile. Nike, the name came from like a Greek goddess, right? But like, I think that it’s just a coincidence that- So independently of the shoe they named that as a Nike missile. I think this is true just because I know of abandoned Nike missile sites already. That part’s always true. When I used to live in Encino, you could go out, we went mountain biking up there on the like Mulholland goes on the ridge of Hollywood Hills. But then it keeps going, I guess that’s north. It might be West, Northwest. And it’s like it turns into a dirt road and you can mountain bike on it. And there’s an old missile site, like a platform and stuff. And it’s a Nike missile site. And they had ’em all up there where they’re like, it was like, you know, national defense. You see any cats? I didn’t see any cats at that one, and I would frequent that one. And it was, you could like again, it was one of those things I like to do. It’s like once I found this thing where, like we walked all up around it and there’s like ladders that go down into stuff but then there’s like locks over it. So you can look down into these ladders and all these like bunkers underground. Any naked ladies drawn over there? No naked ladies drawn on anything. And you could go up into the tower and like look for coyotes and whatnot. Coyote. Yeah, it’s real Pretty cool. Yeah. But the cats That’s real. The Cats is the, what somebody added Man, just a renegade artist. Just making stuff on putting it places. I mean to me it’s just three cats though. Like that an abandoned site makes- It’s pretty cool. Three cats? I’d like to put some stone cats in the woods. I wouldn’t leave my route to see this. Right, I understand that. Let’s hear another one. The Cheese Theme Park in South Korea. The Imsil Cheese Theme Park opened in 2004 and was a cheese heaven where one could learn about make and eat cheese to their heart’s desire. Visitors could also ride down a slide past some goats in the Cheese Playland. This is South Korea? And stroll the walkways, checking out the cheese wheel buildings and various cartoon statues. I don’t believe this is real South Korea. I just don’t think it’s real, right? I don’t think cheese is beloved enough- I know, well. In South Korea, I think Christy would’ve told me For there to be a museum. She’s obsessed with cheese. She, you know about all the cheese museums from your wife? Yeah, and she hadn’t told me about that one. Okay, how many have she told you about? At least, don’t put me on the spot like that. This is a trick question. It’s real but it’s not abandoned, that’s right. The cheese is holding it down and you can go to the Cheese Theme Park. Wow, look at that, wow. Imsil Cheese Theme Park. And look at that map, wow. That’s just a map to cheese. Just the places you can walk. Happy birthday Stevie. Thank you. I hope you enjoyed your trip to the cockpit, ’cause again, that was our gift to you. Right, that’s it. That was all we’re gonna give you for your birthday. Catch the video on demand of our stage show Rhett & Link: Live at Mythicon before sales close on Sunday, November 6th. Get tickets at rhettandlinklive.com.