Sinkhole at Corvette Museum Attracts Its Own Crowd

A sinkhole that gave way in February at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., swallowing eight valuable Corvettes, has become an attraction in and of itself, The New York Times reports.

Attendance at the museum is up 59 percent since March, compared with the same period the previous year, and sales at the museum shop and cafe have increased as well. The traffic is being driven by tourists who want to get a glimpse of the headline-grabbing 60-foot-deep hole, which has yet to be filled in. News of the calamity also prompted a surge of donations.

With the sinkhole proving to be an unexpected source of revenue, museum board members are now wrestling with various options, including leaving it as is, preserving at least a portion of it, or filling it in.