Since June 20th, 1921, the Department of Inexplicable Travel & Attractions has been entrusted with the care of our nation’s most peculiar and fickle landmarks. President Warren G. Harding formally established the department shortly after advisors had informed him that the Axiom War Monument had suddenly “developed an attitude” and was adamantly refusing to be seen in public. The sudden and inexplicable refusal of this beloved monument to be in the public eye demonstrated a clear and immediate need for such a department to exist and managed the nation’s more temperamental attraction. The Axiom War Monument was not the first and certainly would not be the last national site to develop a crisis of confidence.

Initially headed by Morris Halverson - the previous senator from the now obliterated former-state of New Belgium - the department’s early years were a series of success. The artful handling of the Mother’s Day Mountain Crisis, the disappearance of Lockwood National Ballpark, and the scandalous rehab attempt of the Statue of Tolerance firmly established them as the most effective federal agency. Halverson would have been a prime presidential candidate after President Harding had it not been for his own mysterious disappearance in 1923.

Today, D.I.T.A. oversees more than 227 various parks, monuments, and attractions.