Oddball Michigan : : a Guide to 450 Really Strange Places

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Call Number: 977.4 Po, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Travel / United States / Midwest / Michigan
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"There's more to Michigan than beautiful forests, shuttered factories, and miles and miles of stunning shoreline. Armed with this offbeat travel guide, you'll soon discover the strange underbelly of the Great Lakes State. Michigan has monuments to fluoridation, snurfing, the designer of the Jefferson nickel, and the once-famous Mr. Chicken, as well as festivals honoring tulips, Christmas pickles, and a 38-acre fungus. It's where you'll find the World's Largest Lugnut, the Nun Doll Museum, Joe's Gizzard City, the Teenie-Weenie Pickle Barrel Cottage, Howdy Doody, and Thomas Edison's last breath. The state also has its share of weird history--it's where Harry Houdini perished on Halloween night in 1926, where skater Tanya Harding's posse whacked Nancy Kerrigan, and where the Kellogg brothers invented popular breakfast cereals and less-popular yogurt enemas. Along with humorous histories and witty observations, Oddball Michigan provides addresses, websites, hours, fees, and driving directions for each of its 450 entries. "-- Provided by publisher.

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Very Odd submitted by sara on July 23, 2014, 6:54pm This book makes me think that Michigan does not have as many cheezy attractions as other states. The "oddities" listed in Ann Arbor are: Birthplace of the Peace Corps, Giant Garlic at Quarter Bistro, The Wave Field on North Campus and UM museums. Hum. I was looking for giant elephants, tacky buildings, and such.

Roadtrip Helper submitted by Bethybeth07 on August 3, 2016, 10:27am I was expecting more roadside attractions than this book had to offer, but there are still enough fun ideas in here worth adding to your Michigan road-trip.