Metropolis, Illinois - Home of Superman

Our son Derek has collected comic books for many years and in his research he found that the small town of Metropolis was the home of Superman and on our way home to Ontario. We had spent the night in Paducah, Kentucky just across the Ohio River. First thing on Friday morning, we headed to the Superman Museum and store. We found a huge 15' stature of The Man of Steel right in the town square and took several pictures of each of us in front of him. Derek spent the next 2 hours in the museum - they had EVERYTHING Superman! Derek even bought a piece of green glowing Kryptonite. Jack and I walked around town - population 6000 - looking at several murals painted on the sides of buildings depicting the history of the town. We got on the road late in the morning and drove across Illinois and into Indiana - spending the night at a Lowe's on the outskirts of Indianapolis.