Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peru, Indiana, is known as the "Circus Capital of the World" and has a circus history that dates back over 100 years. In the ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - From a mining town, to a proposed pot town to eventually a circus town. That is what Spiegelworld is planning to turn the tiny town of Nipton into. “It will be an active ...

Though the first modern circus was born in 1770s England, the tented attractions didn’t become an American tradition until around the mid-to-late-1800s. The traveling circus graced wide swaths of the ...

Most people associate Indiana with corn, racing, and basketball. But head about 75 miles north of Indianapolis, and you'll discover a town with an entirely different claim to fame: the "Circus Capital ...