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.
Most Unusual Monument – Location 28.2916, -81.4046
In Kissimmee is where you’ll find what is locally billed as the World’s Most Unusual Monument, a 50 foot high, irregular quadrilateral pyramid…whatever that is. It’s called the “Monument of the States” and its 21 tiers contain 1500 stones and rocks from every state and 22 countries. The tall monument topped off by a 562 pound concrete eagle, was a project of the All-States Tourist Club of Kissimmee and was dedicated by the governor on March 28, 1943.
The estimated weight of the monument is 60,000 pounds, much of it in cement donated by local citizens. But wait, there are more than rocks stuck in this weird monument, upon close inspection you’ll see a meteorite, a cannon ball from Michigan, buffalo horns from Montana, petrified wood from Arizona, a rock from the Sahara desert, a human skull, glacier eggs, a petrified apple from Wisconsin, and a map of Holland.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: A pagophagiac is a person who love eating what?
A: Machine guns = N29° 26.323' W81° 45.988'
B: Ballistic missiles = N29° 26.333' W81° 45.988'
C: Ice = N29° 26.343' W81° 45.988'