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Our quest to seek out America’s most bizarre attractions continues to the Mid Western state of Illinois. While the typical Illinois vacation would have you taking in a Cubs game, dining on Chicago deep dish and journeying to the top of the Willis (Sears) Tower, we’ll have you experiencing everything but. So buckle up, put on your best Chicago accent, and journey with us to five of Illinois strangest attractions:
1. Funeral Home Mini Golf: Palatine, Illinois
When they're not embalming a corpse...
•5 Exceptionally Odd Pennsylvania Attractions
Pennsylvania holds a special place in the hearts of many Americans. The declaration of independence was signed here, the Liberty Bell sounded here and frankly some of the nation’s best bizarre roadside attractions make their home here.
1. Drive-Thru Strip Club: Congruity, Pennsylvania
American’s love their cars and no where is that more evident than the spread of its drive thru culture. America’s got drive thru restaurants, drive thru banks, drive thru wedding chapels, heck they’ve even got...
•5 Exceptionally Odd Florida Attractions
Some rave of Florida’s pristine white sandy beaches, others its endless array of world class theme parks and still others its equally endless array of senior citizens. For us however, there’s one thing to rave about above them all; its spectacular selection of bizarre roadside attractions. Here are some of its best:
1. World’s Largest Shuffleboard Courts: St Petersburg, Florida
Grab your friend Ethel, give Gertrude a call, heck, clear out all of Florida’s old age homes and bring the gang here...
•5 Exceptionally Odd New Mexico Attractions
Join us as we journey to New Mexico, to bring your more tales of the off-beat and bizarre from across the U.S.A. Spend a week or two in New Mexico yourself and you'll quickly understand why its earned the name, The Land Of Enchantment.
1. The Black Hole: Atomic Surplus Store & Museum: Los Alamos New Mexico
Put on your best radioactive suit, and head into the The Black Hole, a 17,000 square foot store and museum brandishing some of the great relics from Los Alamos’ radioactive past.
Need a...
•5 Exceptionally Odd Utah Attractions
Climb aboard as we cross the state border into Utah in search of more of America’s weird and wonderful attractions.
As always America, your penchant for the strange, failed to let us down.
1.World’s Largest Watermelon: Green River, Utah
For years, several U.S towns and cities have battled for the honour of being named “America’s Watermelon Capital (Green River, Utah being amongst the foremost contenders). While this prestigious title is in constant dispute, there’s no disputing that Green...
•5 Exceptionally Odd Colorado Attractions
Come with us as we make tracks Colorado and take in its towering alpine peaks, snow dusted landscapes, and spectacularly odd roadside attractions. This just might be the strangest place we’ve encountered yet.
1.Buckskin Joe’s Live Hangings: Cannon City, Colorado
The death penalty has long been a fixture of American justice, and here you can witness a live hanging, then snap a photo of the unfortunate victim as he swings lifelessly from his noose. The perfect post card to send home to mom.
If...
•Five Insanely Bizarre Missouri Attractions
From Kansas, our search for America’s weird and wonderful attractions takes us from the Great Plains to the Midwestern state of Missouri. With a little scratching beneath the surface, we discover that there’s much more to Missouri than the Gateway arch and the Blues. In fact, lush landscapes of spectacular oddities await the traveller around every corner; oddities much like these:
1. Glore Psychiatric Museum: St Joseph, Missouri
Located within the former State Lunatic Asylum, this ode to...
•4 Insanely Offbeat Idaho Roadside Attractions
While Idaho officially bears the name, The Gem State, unofficially it will always be known as the Potato State. In fact, from its potato museums, to its potato themed drive-ins, the state may very well have more spud based attractions than California has theme parks. But beneath the skin of its thick potato layers, lies a world of wonderfully strange roadside attractions. Here are four of its best:
1. Museum Of Clean: Pocatello, Idaho
Neat freaks rejoice. The soon to open 75,000 square foot...
•5 Weird But Wonderful American Hotels
With mega resorts and generic chain hotels increasingly asserting their rule on the American accommodation landscape, finding a unique hotel stay experience is getting harder than ever. Heck, even our beloved B&Bs are starting to suffer from the symptoms of sameness.
To renew your faith in American accommodation, we’ve checked into 5 of the country’s weird but wonderful hotels to bring you a good night’s sleep like no other.
1. Jules Underwater Lodge: Key Largo, Florida
Life is better under...
•5 Completely Wacky Washington Attractions
America’s Pacific North West is home to pristine natural beauty, world class attractions and delicious West Coast cuisine.
Well, we completely avoided any of that, and headed straight for Washington’s most bizarre and off-beat places. To us, weird is wonderful, and we hope you think so too.
1. Self Kicking Machine: Rockport, Washington
For those who enjoy self inflicting pain, Rockport’s Self Kicking apparatus just might be your life’s calling. Just point your rear end at the four rotating...
•7 American Diners to Eat at Before You Die
The diner is as much a part of the American experience as baseball and the SUV. Sure, they serve up more grease than a mechanic shop, but there’s nothing quite like the comfort of pulling up a chair at a classic diner after a long drive.
So grab yourself a napkin or two and come along with us as we explore 7 American Diners To Eat At Before You Die. That is unless of course, eating there kills you first.
1. Hillbilly Hot Dogs: Lesage, WV
Straight out of a trailer park cliché, this West...
•5 Exceptionally Odd Texas Attractions
Our quest to seek out America’s most bizarre attractions continues as we venture East from California to Texas. Shovel in hand; we’ve dug deep to unearth these five fabulously bizarre Lone Star State attractions:
1. Beer Can House: Houston, Texas
To build a home made of 39,000 beer cans is impressive. To drink a 6 pack every day for 18 years to get those 39,000 beer cans is superhuman. But that’s exactly what late owner John Milkovisch did, drinking down some 14,000 litres of beer to build...
•America's Spookiest Places: 5 Great Ghost Towns of the Wild West.
The Gold Rush sparked a mad dash for riches, sending thousands of men crisscrossing across the Wild West in search of the big score. As rumors of wealth in new places came about, whole towns were deserted and alas, the Wild West ghost town was born.
Today, hundreds of ghost towns lie scattered throughout the Old West, here are 5 worth a visit:
1. Bodie, California
Head East of the Sierra Nevada, about 75 miles South-East of Lake Tahoe, and you’ll stumble upon the abandoned ghost town of...
•7 American Museums Stranger Than You Are
They’re weird and they’re wacky, but they’ve got a charm and allure we can’t help but appreciate. Here’s our picks for the zaniest, looniest, nuttiest made in the U.S.A museums:
1. National Mustard Museum
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin (Moving Soon To Middleton, Wisconsin).
Excuse me do you have any grey poupon? This is one place where you’re all but guaranteed to get a resounding “Yes”. In fact, Mount Horeb’s National Mustard Museum is home to over 5000 mustard varieties, from 50 states and 60...
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