An abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini…

All that exist now are a handful of indistinguishable ruins that were once a thriving tourist town called Holy City, as well as a single building owned by the ghost town’s only remaining resident, who operates the Holy City Art Glass Sign shop…

Holy City was the realized vision and crackpot creation of a certain “Father” William E. Riker, who billed himself as “Chief Comforter” and “Wisest Man on Earth” as he broadcasted religiously racist rants from his Holy City radio station.

Ourgazetteer.org was established to enumerate the vast array of implicit European American communities and in particular to find physical space where we can feel safe to voice our own identity. Neat idea!

An interesting look at a Florida-based utopian colony that believed the Universe existed in a hollow sphere.