Of course it does. Just behind the original city is the old one with added facades..... It is a tourist mecca of its region. Just never was a true German founded or mostly inhabited city. It re-made itself from a plan..... You can look it all up in Wikipedia by typing the name in....
@@t.bartley5768 Then it is all good. My comment on Leavenworth was just truths. another commented nonsense and I was hating on the city. Still if that person is a local? Apparently, they do not know its history as another city and recreated to the tourist city it is.
There's videos about the people of Tangier Island that I think you would also find fascinating. For one thing, they retain an accent (even a dialect) that many associate with southern England and some say is even a throwback to Shakespearean English. This is because the island was among the first places in North America settled by the English in the 17th century and it's so isolated they retained their speech patterns until very recently when TV, radio and the internet may be slowing wiping them out
Yeah, there are other German towns besides Leavenworth, one absolutely fantastic one on the East Coast is Helen, Georgia. It's gorgeous!! There's also Frankenmuth, Michigan; Hermann, Missouri; and Fredericksburg, Texas!!
Leavenworth is wonderful!!!! I live in SE Washington, and it’s a fantastic destination for a day trip or weekend getaway. So quaint, great food, good shopping, and lots of activity options.
It's funny to see Gibsonton, Florida on here. My sister and her husband live there now. They moved to help with his family, which happen to be ex circus performers.
I was born and lived around there most of my life. I remember a great number of carnies lived there. They used to put on a free circus for the locals in the winter. We used to rent a mobile home from the "half woman" Jeanie Tomaini. Her husband was Al Tomaini, who stood 7 ft. 4 in. They owned the Giant's Camp fishing camp. Although, he was not the tallest person to live in Gibsonton. I later became friends with Johann Peturssen, who stood 7 ft 8 in. I helped him sell postcards and copies of a ring he wore to supplement his income in his senior years. The Gibsonton Post Office had the first in the US with extra-low counters for little people. I have lots of funny and interesting stories about the people of that area.
Growing up as a kid in Seaside was amazing. Used to be a lot more deserted and separated from surrounding areas and the animal life was amazing. Swam with dolphins and sharks and all manner of sea life all the time. Fell asleep to the sound of the wind and water, and woke up to the birds singing. Moved away a few years before the Truman Show was filmed there, but was fun seeing it pop up in a movie at the time.
Too bad he didn't mention Solvang, California. It's a Danish town that looks straight out of Denmark. It is the cleanest place I've ever seen. I had lunch in a smorgasbord (Scandinavian buffet). There was a picture of a former Danish monarch on the wall. There is an amazing clock store and other cool stuff in the town.
Many cruise ships visit Whittier, Alaska for Glacier Cruises. The Alaska Railroad operates the Glacier Discovery Train from Whittier to Anchorage and back.
Since the advent of the highway systems across North America, there have been a lot of towns which adopted aesthetics or themes, meant to appeal to tourists. There are numerous towns that trace their histories back to battles, mines, or landmarks, too. Lots of Canadian towns have quirky themes and aesthetics, as well.
Leavenworth WA is beautiful! In the summer or winter. A small town designed to look like a Bavarian village nestled right into the mountains.. You look up all you see is sky and giant mountains surrounding you in every direction. I live in the Seattle area and visit often, usually for camping in the summer. Lots of outdoor recreation.
I live about 3 hours drive from Leavenworth, Washington. There was nothing CGI about the photos though there could have been a better selection of photos used to show it off . Been there many times fun little town
I'm surprised Casey, Illinois wasn't on here. I grew up not far from there so I've been there a few times. It's a town with a lot of the World's Largest things. Largest rocking chair, wind chime, pencil, mailbox, and a few others. It's just a tiny town with these huge sculptures everywhere. There's about 2,500 people that live there and I think the real estate price there would be under $100k. Most of Southern Illinois is cheap because everyone is moving out like I did. Just no jobs there unfortunately.
I have been to Levenworth several times. It is built authentically. I think originally it was a logging town, but to help the economy they bought in Germans to guide in the rebuilding or design of the city. There are people there from Bavaria who run restaurants. It is not a facade. A nice place to visit. It is touristy as far as the some of shops that are there for tourists.
I’ve been to 2 of these places, Salem and Pigeon Forge. Salem is far from what you would call “spooky”, it’s just a tiny village with a museum and a handful of tacky souvenir shops. Pigeon Forge is fun and if you’re not into rides and games it’s a short distance from Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
I've been to Leavenworth, WA, many times. It's a fun town to visit. Background: it was a logging town and the city fathers decided in the 1960s to revamp the town into a Bavarian themed town. Consider most of the town to be a tourist trap. It doesn't matter, it's still a lot of fun.
The photos of Leavenworth are all real. It is especially decorated and lighted during the Christmas season. I live about 50 miles from Leavenworth, Washington state.
Little mining towns, or what is left of them, are generally fascinating. I've been to several of them in Arizona. Oatman is one of my favorites because wild donkeys wander in to get food when tourists are in town. Although they are wild, they like interactions with people. You can also get ferry rides from Beaufort to see where wild ponies live on the Outer Banks of North Carolina although they aren't as likely to interact with people like the donkeys in Oatman do.
In case you want to impress friends and family some day, towns you described as deserted are what we call ghost towns. They're sure to say, "Oooh! How does he know all this stuff?"😀 Pigeon Forge, NC is just to the north of Great Smoky Mtns. N.P. When he described Leavenworth, WA, as being its own slice of Bavaria, he meant there's a strong influence of southern Germany, which is evidenced by the Rococo (Fachwerk in German) architecture. Consider this: if he were saying what he's saying here, and it was an outright lie, wouldn't his site be taken down? What reason would there be for him to lie? By the way, Munich is in . . . Bavaria. On the subject of Whittier, AK, he neglected to mention an important fact about the tunnel. It's shared in shifts by vehicle and rail traffic. He left out what I consider to be the most interesting detail about Tangier Is. Due to their isolation, they have an accent that sounds like English from 250 years ago, which is somewhat akin to the barrier islands of NC, among them Kitty Hawk, where the Wright Brothers flew the first airplane. Lastly, he mentioned Leavenworth and its German heritage, but left out a little town in southern WI by the name of New Glarus, which is full of descendants of Swiss immigrants who settled there long ago. Like Leavenworth, it's built in the Swiss style, like Leavenworth is in the German style. If you want to hear/see more about this type of thing here, go to Geography King, and search for his videos of several years ago, in which he featured a number of enclaves in cities around the country that are entirely populated by immigrants from 1 country, to the point that it makes you feel like you're in that country.
I visit Leavenworth from time to time. I live in the same state. I'd love to go there in the winter when they have all the Christmas stuff going, but the weather on the highway is usually terrible and I chicken out.
Jerome AZ, grew there my history teacher was building his house on the mountain, we had a huge storm and his house literally slid down the hill😂, we had our high school prom at the old mental hospital❤. Good times.
How about The Villages Florida? World’s largest retirement community, most holes of golf at over 900 & counting (14 championship & 54 executive courses) about 110k full time residents & 40% second homes. Estimated to be home to about 80k golf carts as primary vehicles, including a secondary road system separating cars from carts. Still building, about 60k more in the works, one of the fastest growing cities in North America. With that many senior citizens, what could go wrong? 😜
I visited Point Pleasant WV a few years ago and it was...sad. The area is beautiful but depressed and the story behind the Mothman is very sad. I hope they can find a way to revive the town through the folklore.
If you visit Intercourse Pennsylvania, you can buy a license plate there that says in bold letters I love Intercourse and in small letters at the bottom of the plate you will find Pennsylvania.
Thurston - do us a favor -- mingle with us in the comments. An occasional comment to someone about their good comment. On occasion. It would make some folks feel good - and not feel like a sitting robot. Not me = I am old and over it --- the youngins on here need the attention - especially these days of daily bad news ---
Leavenworth is not AI pictures, that is what it really looks like.
Of course it does. Just behind the original city is the old one with added facades..... It is a tourist mecca of its region. Just never was a true German founded or mostly inhabited city. It re-made itself from a plan..... You can look it all up in Wikipedia by typing the name in....
@@davidw7 I don’t need to look it up, I live near there and know the story of the town quite well, that’s why I commented in the first place.
@@t.bartley5768 Then it is all good. My comment on Leavenworth was just truths. another commented nonsense and I was hating on the city. Still if that person is a local? Apparently, they do not know its history as another city and recreated to the tourist city it is.
Bar hopping in Leavenworth is awesome, so many great microbreweries
It looks beautiful
There's videos about the people of Tangier Island that I think you would also find fascinating. For one thing, they retain an accent (even a dialect) that many associate with southern England and some say is even a throwback to Shakespearean English. This is because the island was among the first places in North America settled by the English in the 17th century and it's so isolated they retained their speech patterns until very recently when TV, radio and the internet may be slowing wiping them out
Glad to have you back making new content, Thurston.
VERY glad you’re back to us Thurston. Love your reaction vids.
Yeah, there are other German towns besides Leavenworth, one absolutely fantastic one on the East Coast is Helen, Georgia. It's gorgeous!! There's also Frankenmuth, Michigan; Hermann, Missouri; and Fredericksburg, Texas!!
The waters off of North Carolina are known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" due to the shifting sandbars and the many shipwrecks that they caused.
None of that’s is AI imaging. I live a few hours from Beaufort and that’s what it looks like .
Pigeon Forge is where the best moonshine is made.
Leavenworth is wonderful!!!! I live in SE Washington, and it’s a fantastic destination for a day trip or weekend getaway. So quaint, great food, good shopping, and lots of activity options.
It's funny to see Gibsonton, Florida on here. My sister and her husband live there now. They moved to help with his family, which happen to be ex circus performers.
I was born and lived around there most of my life. I remember a great number of carnies lived there. They used to put on a free circus for the locals in the winter. We used to rent a mobile home from the "half woman" Jeanie Tomaini. Her husband was Al Tomaini, who stood 7 ft. 4 in. They owned the Giant's Camp fishing camp. Although, he was not the tallest person to live in Gibsonton. I later became friends with Johann Peturssen, who stood 7 ft 8 in. I helped him sell postcards and copies of a ring he wore to supplement his income in his senior years. The Gibsonton Post Office had the first in the US with extra-low counters for little people. I have lots of funny and interesting stories about the people of that area.
Growing up as a kid in Seaside was amazing. Used to be a lot more deserted and separated from surrounding areas and the animal life was amazing. Swam with dolphins and sharks and all manner of sea life all the time. Fell asleep to the sound of the wind and water, and woke up to the birds singing. Moved away a few years before the Truman Show was filmed there, but was fun seeing it pop up in a movie at the time.
Jerome has loads of old buildings that are now T-Shirt shops and Cafe's, with tons of scenery.
Too bad he didn't mention Solvang, California. It's a Danish town that looks straight out of Denmark. It is the cleanest place I've ever seen. I had lunch in a smorgasbord (Scandinavian buffet). There was a picture of a former Danish monarch on the wall. There is an amazing clock store and other cool stuff in the town.
Many cruise ships visit Whittier, Alaska for Glacier Cruises. The Alaska Railroad operates the Glacier Discovery Train from Whittier to Anchorage and back.
Since the advent of the highway systems across North America, there have been a lot of towns which adopted aesthetics or themes, meant to appeal to tourists. There are numerous towns that trace their histories back to battles, mines, or landmarks, too.
Lots of Canadian towns have quirky themes and aesthetics, as well.
Leavenworth WA is beautiful! In the summer or winter. A small town designed to look like a Bavarian village nestled right into the mountains.. You look up all you see is sky and giant mountains surrounding you in every direction. I live in the Seattle area and visit often, usually for camping in the summer. Lots of outdoor recreation.
To be fair, in North Carolina, you can't really not find a pirate connection at most most port towns.
I live about 3 hours drive from Leavenworth, Washington. There was nothing CGI about the photos though there could have been a better selection of photos used to show it off . Been there many times fun little town
I'm surprised Casey, Illinois wasn't on here. I grew up not far from there so I've been there a few times. It's a town with a lot of the World's Largest things. Largest rocking chair, wind chime, pencil, mailbox, and a few others. It's just a tiny town with these huge sculptures everywhere. There's about 2,500 people that live there and I think the real estate price there would be under $100k. Most of Southern Illinois is cheap because everyone is moving out like I did. Just no jobs there unfortunately.
I have been to Levenworth several times. It is built authentically. I think originally it was a logging town, but to help the economy they bought in Germans to guide in the rebuilding or design of the city. There are people there from Bavaria who run restaurants. It is not a facade. A nice place to visit. It is touristy as far as the some of shops that are there for tourists.
That's not AI imagery.
I've been to Salem, MA. It's a lot of fun! Very quirky!
There's a town of psychics called Cassadaga, Florida.
I’ve been to 2 of these places, Salem and Pigeon Forge. Salem is far from what you would call “spooky”, it’s just a tiny village with a museum and a handful of tacky souvenir shops. Pigeon Forge is fun and if you’re not into rides and games it’s a short distance from Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
I've been to Leavenworth, WA, many times. It's a fun town to visit.
Background: it was a logging town and the city fathers decided in the 1960s to revamp the town into a Bavarian themed town. Consider most of the town to be a tourist trap. It doesn't matter, it's still a lot of fun.
The photos of Leavenworth are all real. It is especially decorated and lighted during the Christmas season. I live about 50 miles from Leavenworth, Washington state.
Little mining towns, or what is left of them, are generally fascinating. I've been to several of them in Arizona. Oatman is one of my favorites because wild donkeys wander in to get food when tourists are in town. Although they are wild, they like interactions with people. You can also get ferry rides from Beaufort to see where wild ponies live on the Outer Banks of North Carolina although they aren't as likely to interact with people like the donkeys in Oatman do.
In case you want to impress friends and family some day, towns you described as deserted are what we call ghost towns. They're sure to say, "Oooh! How does he know all this stuff?"😀
Pigeon Forge, NC is just to the north of Great Smoky Mtns. N.P.
When he described Leavenworth, WA, as being its own slice of Bavaria, he meant there's a strong influence of southern Germany, which is evidenced by the Rococo (Fachwerk in German) architecture. Consider this: if he were saying what he's saying here, and it was an outright lie, wouldn't his site be taken down? What reason would there be for him to lie? By the way, Munich is in . . . Bavaria.
On the subject of Whittier, AK, he neglected to mention an important fact about the tunnel. It's shared in shifts by vehicle and rail traffic.
He left out what I consider to be the most interesting detail about Tangier Is. Due to their isolation, they have an accent that sounds like English from 250 years ago, which is somewhat akin to the barrier islands of NC, among them Kitty Hawk, where the Wright Brothers flew the first airplane.
Lastly, he mentioned Leavenworth and its German heritage, but left out a little town in southern WI by the name of New Glarus, which is full of descendants of Swiss immigrants who settled there long ago. Like Leavenworth, it's built in the Swiss style, like Leavenworth is in the German style.
If you want to hear/see more about this type of thing here, go to Geography King, and search for his videos of several years ago, in which he featured a number of enclaves in cities around the country that are entirely populated by immigrants from 1 country, to the point that it makes you feel like you're in that country.
I visit Leavenworth from time to time. I live in the same state. I'd love to go there in the winter when they have all the Christmas stuff going, but the weather on the highway is usually terrible and I chicken out.
Jerome AZ, grew there my history teacher was building his house on the mountain, we had a huge storm and his house literally slid down the hill😂, we had our high school prom at the old mental hospital❤. Good times.
Bisby is another town in AZ like Jerome.
@@BTinSF Bisby a is cute, fun lil town, is it haunted too? lol
Was just there at Leavenworth a day ago. A short drive from Seattle. I just drive there when I a want yet another scenic day trip around Washington
i've been to leavenworth its a really fun town i like all the shops they have especially the tea shop i got some good tea.
My boyfriend when I was 18-19 lived in Beaufort. He still does actually but now he's an ex lol.
Leavenworth WA is the place for Christmas, it is absolutely beautiful in winter🤘 really all year round!
I avoid Pidgeon Forge and Gattlinburg as much as possible. I head to the Great Smokey National Park.
Michigan's Version of Leavenworth, WA is Frankenmuth.
How about The Villages Florida? World’s largest retirement community, most holes of golf at over 900 & counting (14 championship & 54 executive courses) about 110k full time residents & 40% second homes. Estimated to be home to about 80k golf carts as primary vehicles, including a secondary road system separating cars from carts. Still building, about 60k more in the works, one of the fastest growing cities in North America.
With that many senior citizens, what could go wrong? 😜
Leavenworth looks so nice and we have plenty cities that look European, Aylas beach and Tarpon springs looks like Greece.
Strange to have Tangier in the video and not display they unique dialect spoken there by the locals.
I visited Point Pleasant WV a few years ago and it was...sad. The area is beautiful but depressed and the story behind the Mothman is very sad. I hope they can find a way to revive the town through the folklore.
As a Beaufort Resident I assure you it’s not AI and it is a quite nice place to live 😊
Leavenworth is even prettier in the winter. They decorate the whole town for Christmas.
If you visit Intercourse Pennsylvania, you can buy a license plate there that says in bold letters I love Intercourse and in small letters at the bottom of the plate you will find Pennsylvania.
You mentioned Venice, that will be Miami if sea levels keep rising. Several other low lying costal cities & towns as well.
There's a little German or maybe Swiss town in Colorado as well.
Beaufort is NOT AiI CREATED....That pic was real, i have been there
Many towns are incoporated many years or centuries after founding of first habitation. It can be deceptive some times.
None of that was AI images!
I haven to Leavenworth Warshington it is a beautiful town.
I'm surprised Seaside, FL isn't inland. . .
It’s real 12:54
Mentions a German town in Washington, ignores the Danish town (Solvang) in California. . .
Or the Bavarian town in Georgia, Helen.
LoL. Just because you haven't seen something before doesn’t mean it isnt real.
the most unique town in the UK is probably Milton Keynes, and that's for how weirdly uniform it is 😂😂
Jerome isn't really all that hot. yeah gets a little warm in the summer but not like the desert south of the Mogollon rim.
I haven't watched it yet, but Frankenmuth had better be on the list... 🧐
Why do you keep saying AI? Some photos bc appear a little color saturated but they do look like that
Not AI, just the USA in all its quirky unique-sameness. :)
Washington has more than one German town that's just the most famous one.
THESES ARE NOT AI
No AI imagery necessary, my friend. Everything is as you see here.
none of its AI
Its not ai two brothers built an entire German town
9:40 It's not AI. It's real, you donut
Thete ate no AI.
Leavenworth IS NOT AI......we are not in the UK...life is different here...we are different...get over it
11:48 It is not AI. Get it through your thick skull
None of these images were AI generated, my man.
Maybe the saturation, I pissed a lot of people of either that when if anything it’s a compliment 💀
Author of video: list of semi interesting places I happen to have visited
Can you react to the Henry the 8th oversimplified?
thurston make more sports reactions again to revive your channel
lol "he's been using a lot of AI images" NOPE. none of the pics of these towns are AI-generated
Thurston - do us a favor -- mingle with us in the comments. An occasional comment to someone about their good comment. On occasion. It would make some folks feel good - and not feel like a sitting robot. Not me = I am old and over it --- the youngins on here need the attention - especially these days of daily bad news ---
I just drove through Gibsonton a couple of hours ago. Weird.
I was raised in Whittier. . . . . . . .
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