UFO Welcome Center

On our recent trip we relied on a navigation system to help us find our way to our destinations.  Our navigation system monitors traffic and occasionally will re-route us to avoid congestion.  This can result in some interesting side trips.  On the final leg our trip we had one such re-route that took us past an all-American roadside oddity.  You know what I mean...."World's Largest Ball of String" or a giant cowboy statue or a the big Longaberger basket in Ohio.  This time we went by the "UFO Welcome Center".  At the time we wondered if it was a center to welcome aliens or if it was meant for earthlings to be welcomed BY aliens and several miles down the road we wished that we had stopped and taken a picture.  But......thanks to the wonders of the internet I can show you:

It even has it's own Wikipedia page.  It is located in Bowman, South Carolina.  We learned after we came home that we could have even taken a tour of this place.  And it IS meant to welcome aliens.  You can read all about it and it's creator on Wikipedia.  There are also several You-tube videos devoted to the place. I mentioned to son #3 that I thought South Carolina was a strange place to welcome aliens.  After all, wouldn't New Mexico (a la Roswell) make more sense.  But he pointed out to me that aliens coming to earth for the first time would probably just use Google to find a Welcome Center so location wouldn't really matter.  Of course.  Why didn't I think of that?