The United States is a vast, beautiful country, graced with amber waves of grain and purple mountain’s majesty from sea to shining sea, but it also has its share of bizarre man-made marvels (The Corn Palace; an infinite mirror maze), mystifying museums (Spam; giant shoes) and hard-to-believe natural phenomena (musical rocks; synchronous fireflies). From California’s Mystery Spot, where gravity seems to go haywire to a Massachusetts house made entirely of paper; from Vermont’s Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard to Florida’s Underwater Museum of Art, this collector’s edition magazine highlights more than 70 strange and singular spots to visit across seven regions of the country that are astounding, baffling and fun for the whole family. They are all among America’s Weirdest Places!
The Northeast • SOME OF THE OLDEST PARTS OF THE NATION ARE ALSO HOME TO THEIR SHARE OF THE ODDEST ENTITIES, FROM ICE CREAM FLAVOR TOMBSTONES TO INVERTED GLOBES
Wild Blueberry Land
Desert of Maine
Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard
Museum of Bad Art
Salem
Mapparium
The Paper House
Pez Visitors Centre
Museum of Sex
Opus 40
The Mid-Atlantic • THIS U.S. REGION OFFERS STRANGE SIGHTS — AND SOUNDS! — FROM AL CAPONE’S PRISON AND A MUSEUM OF MEDICAL HISTORY AND MYSTERIES TO MUSICAL ROCKS
Eastern State Penitentiary
Mütter Museum
Ringing Rocks
DiscoverSea Shipwreck Museum
Brewmaster’s Castle
The Mystery Hole
The Presidents Heads
The Southeast • THIS REGION IS A HAVEN FOR THE BIZARRE AND UNEXPECTED, INCLUDING DISMEMBERED DOLLS AND SUBAQUATIC SCULPTURES
Rock City Gardens
Doll’s Head Trail
Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park
Museum of the Bizarre
Weeki Wachee Springs State Park
Underwater Museum of Art
Whimzeyland
The South • THE GREAT AMERICAN SOUTH IS NOT ONLY HOSPITABLE TO STRANGERS PASSING THROUGH, BUT ALSO TO SOME OF THE MOST UNUSUAL ATTRACTIONS IN THE COUNTRY, SUCH AS SYNCHRONOUS FIREFLIES AND AN ALLIGATOR CHATEAU
Vent Haven Museum
Dinosaur World
Synchronous Fireflies
The Parthenon
The Lost Sea
Billy Bass Adoption Center
Chaffee Barbershop Museum
Unclaimed Baggage Center
Marfa Lights
Museum of Death
Gator Chateau
The Midwest • SANDWICHED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY ARE A HOST OF WACKY PLACES — AMONG THEM, LANDMARKS DEDICATED TO SPECIFIC OBSESSIONS (HAIR! CORN! SPAM!) AS WELL AS SUPERSIZED OBJECTS (A ROCKING CHAIR! FISH! TWINE!)
The Corn Palace
Paul Bunyan Land
Spam Museum
The House on the Rock
Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame
Carhenge
High Trestle Trail Bridge
Big Things Small Town
Lucas
Largest Ball of Twine
Leila’s Hair Museum
City Museum
The West • WHEN THE PHRASE “GO WEST, YOUNG MAN” BECAME A RALLYING CALL OF THE WESTWARD EXPANSION, NO ONE COULD HAVE GUESSED THE REGION WOULD BECOME KNOWN FOR A CLOWN MOTEL AND ALIEN VISITATIONS
Joshua Tree National Park
Bombay Beach
Winchester Mystery House
Magowan’s Infinite Mirror Maze
Mystery Spot
The Neon Museum’s Neon Boneyard
Alien Research Center at Area 51
Republic of Molossia
The Clown Motel
Antelope Canyon
Arcosanti
Meow Wolf
Dole Plantation’s Pineapple Garden Maze
The Northwest • A HIDDEN SUBTERRANEAN CITY, A CELEBRATION OF IDAHO’S POTATOES AND A HOBBIT HOME ARE JUST A FEW OF THIS REGION’S WEIRDLY WONDERFUL DELIGHTS
World’s Largest Chocolate Waterfall
Hobbit House
Tree of Life
Giant Shoe Museum
Havre Beneath the Streets
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