1:11 PM - More Atlas9, plus Great Wolf Lodge and Toot Toot. (posted by Allen )
Well, I don't expect anyone to know what Toot Toot is, but after 20 years of passing by billboards for "Bethany's Famous Restaurant", Toot Toot, I finally took the bait and stopped in to see what it was.

Atlas9 is a "Meow Wolf-like" attraction in Kansas City, Kansas. I have resorted the gallery to split out all the locations, and then add sub-galleries showing doorways, paths, and crawls with a folder name of where they lead. For example, in The Speakereasy, you can exit to the Letter Hallway or the Projection Room, so that gallery has sub-folders for "toLetterHallway" and "toProjetionRoom". It ain't pretty to look at, but it is slowly turning into an organized collection of photos that will help you understand the layout. Which is crazy.

We also visited a Great Wolf Lodge. I have been aware of these family resorts for almost 20 years and maybe have seen one from the outside, but never set foot inside. This place is more Disney than most Disney resorts these days (not in way of Disney IP or characters, which is has none of, but in theming and attention to detail). Very impressive.

More to come. Photos are in the MISC gallery. Click [more] below, or copy/paste this:

https://www.disneyfans.com/photos/misc/OtherPlaces/index.html

10:37 PM - Atlas9 photos added, and a "review"? (posted by Allen )
I have done a quick sort to my Atlas9 photos (a Meow Wolf-like attraction in Kanas) and placed them on my Misc/OtherPlaces gallery.

I also did a writeup about the experience which you can find on my ParkHopping.com blog:

https://parkhopping.com/2026/06/17/atlas9-a-meow-wolf-like-attraction-in-kansas/

Much more to say about this place, but that may have to wait until I can drive down and visit it again.

4:51 PM - 144 "lost" Disneyland photos from 1997 located... (posted by Allen )
In 1997, I created the "Virtual Disneyland" tour and put it up on my website. That ancient tour is still there today, on this site:

https://www.disneyfans.com/dlmstour/index.htm

This week when I was doing blog post on my ParkHopping.com site about how taking photos has changed between 1996 when I got my first digital camera and 2026, thirty years (!) later.

I realized ... I did not have those tour photos in my gallery. They were not "photos of specific stuff" so I never added them. But, hey, preserve! A bad photo is better than no photo.

I have revised the Disneyland gallery and added these photos to the 1997 album.

4:30 PM - A 100+ old "haunted" Inn in Hollister, Missouri... (posted by Allen )
...and more photos added to the Misc photo gallery:

The Branson galleries have been reorganized, and now over 10,000 photos are available. Some new spots where visited this road trip, so drop by and explore:

https://www.disneyfans.com/photos/misc/

10:57 AM - USA's #1 Aquarium photos added. (posted by Allen )
Ever notice how so many theme parks and other places state they are the "#1" in America? There are so many polls from places like USA Today that are referenced. Well, here is another one... According to whatever poll they use, the #1 aquarium for many years is ... Wonders of Wildlife in Springfield, Missouri.

This is operated by the "Walt Disney of nature attractions", Johnny Morris. He started Bass Prop Shops and is no stranger to elaborate theming. Even their restrooms are highly themed/decorated. Remember when top-dollar theme parks used to do that?

Photos from Wonders of Wildlife, as well as the nearby ride-thru Fantastic Caverns, have been added to my Misc gallery in the Missouri section:

https://www.disneyfans.com/photos/misc/OtherPlaces/Missouri/Springfield/index.html