Athens' double-barreled cannon still sits outside City Hall, where a Civil War-era inventor once hoped it could fire two cannonballs connected by a chain. The idea failed spectacularly, but the cannon survived — and became one of the city's strangest landmarks.
Athens' double-barreled cannon still sits outside City Hall, where a Civil War-era inventor once hoped it could fire two cannonballs connected by a chain. The idea failed spectacularly, but the cannon survived — and became one of the city's strangest landmarks.