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Mar 29, 2006, 05:14 PM
 
Some odd things to be found on this site.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map.html

- Home of America's First Space Monkey, Independence, KS
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/sight..._AttrId==11873

- Shell-shaped Gas Station, Winston-Salem, NC
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/NCWINshell.html

- World's Tallest Grandfather Clock
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/sight..._AttrId==11922

- World's Smallest Church
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/NYONEchurch.html
     
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Mar 29, 2006, 05:35 PM
 
I live in Northern California. Sunday I went with a friend who is looking at buying 320 acres of land. While hiking, we found four plots someone had used to grow pot last year.
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Mar 29, 2006, 05:49 PM
 
Hitler's Beer Steins
Big Doughnut in Bagel Disguise
50-Foot-Tall Woman with Visible Organs
Clown in a Dress
Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum
Banana Museum
Star Trek Gorn Battle Rocks
Skeleton of World's Tallest Man
Brownie The Railroad Dog

All for real, according to roadsideamerica.com. I need to get out more, never heard of any of them.

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Mar 30, 2006, 03:59 PM
 
Here's the whole list. My favorites in bold...
Kentucky Attractions:

Bardstown: Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
Bardstown: World's Largest Crucifix
Big Bone Lick State Park: And sister destination - Big Beaver Lick
Bowling Green: National Corvette Museum
Cave City: America's Best Dead Cave Explorer
Cave City: Big Mike's Mystery House. Mystery Spot
Cave City: Dinosaur World
Cave City: CLOSED - Golgotha Biblical Mini-Golf
Cave City: Gun Town Mountain
Cave City: Mammoth Cave Wax Museum
Cave City: Wigwam Village Motel
Clermont: Jim Beam Distillery
Covington: Largest Stained Glass Window
Elizabethtown: Approximate Cannonball
Elizabethtown: Schmidt's Coca-Cola Museum
Fairview: Jefferson Davis Obelisk
Florence: Wildwood Tropical Dome and Theme Motel
Fort Knox: Patton Museum of Cavalry & Armor. Off US 31W (Fayette Avenue)
Fort Mitchell: Venthaven Ventriloquist Dummy Museum
Frankfort: Daniel Boone's Grave?: Battling over bones with Defiance, MO.
Hazard: Mother Goose Market
Horse Cave: American Cave Museum: Atop a former stinkhole.
Lexington: Bible-themed Miniature Golf Course. 54 holes, first 18 are Old Testament, last 18 are Christ's toughest miracles...
Lexington: Mortar and Pestle-shaped Pharmacy
Lexington: Man o' War, race horse,
Louisville: Big Coffee Pot
Louisville: Birthplace of the Cheeseburger
Louisville: Louisville Slugger Museum and World's Largest Baseball Bat and Glove
Louisville: World's Largest Bottle of Booze
Marion: World's Largest Collection of Fluorite
Mayfield: Wooldridge Monuments.
Paducah: former "Home of the Atomic Bomb"
Pineville: Boulders chained above town
Russellville: Lightning Portrait of Startled Bather
Trappist: Bourbon Fudge Monks
Versailles: Abandoned Castle
     
   
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