When Adriana Cardona-Maguigad started talking to homeless men in the Chicago neighborhood
she works in, she discovered that many of them had the same, very strange backstory. Adriana tells
Ira how she stumbled upon this. (7 1/2 minutes)
Civil War reenactments, wax museums, simulated coal mines, fake ethnic restaurants, an ersatz Medieval castle, and other re-created worlds that thrive all across America.