Welcome to the Farewell to Finder’s Fest geo-art, brought to you by the Forest Minions! This series celebrates weird and unusual things throughout the Sunshine State. Please do not go to the posted locations. Rather, solve the challenging quiz found at the bottom of each page, for the final location. For the letterbox caches, please leave the stamp in the cache. They are not trade items. For the discerning traveler, we’ve included the GPS coordinates for these bizarre locations, when we were able to establish them.
The Phillips Mausoleum – Location 30.4526, -84.2851
Calvin C. Phillips of Tallahassee believed in planning ahead, even for his death. In 1900 Phillips built the first mausoleum in the city’s Oakland Cemetery. The strange tomb was twenty feet tall and topped in the center with a minaret. It was so large that if he had not died, he could have lived in it. After constructing his mausoleum, Phillips hired a carpenter to build a fancy cherry wood coffin. Phillips then had the coffin placed inside the mausoleum and then crawled inside his coffin and died. In his planning he had given a key and lock to a friend so the vault could be locked after his death. And that was the end of Calvin Phillips…or was it? It is known as a haunted crypt where some say you can feel the presence of Calvin’s ghost.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: Specially designed grooves, carved in the surface of this US highway, between Albuquerque and Tijeras, play the song America the Beautiful, if you drive over them at 55 MPH.
A: Sesame Street = N29° 28.878' W81° 48.589'
B: The Yellow Brick Road = N29° 28.888' W81° 48.589'
C: Route 66 = N29° 28.898' W81° 48.589'