FIND QUIRKY TOURIST ATTRACTIONS NEAR YOU

Perhaps you’re going on vacation somewhere and want to find offbeat and unusual attractions to visit, or maybe you’re just looking for something new and different to do close to home. Well, RoadsideAmerica.com has just what you need. Their Map-a-City function at http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/about helps you find oddball and over-the-top tourist attractions in your home town, or next road trip destination. When you select a city, map pushpins provide information on attractions and link to stories, trip reports, and visitor sightings within 75 miles of that city.

For example, when you click on Los Angeles, CA, over 100 offbeat attractions appear on the map and there’s not one with the name Disney among them. The Porn Star Walk of Fame, in front of Larry Flynt’s Hustler’s of Hollywood, a coffee and porn shop in the heart of the Sunset Strip, has the hand prints (yes just hand prints) of Ron Jeremy and Marilyn Chambers among others.

If you are in the mood for a little shopping try the L.A. Coroner’s Office’s gift shop called Skeletons in the Closet where you can buy t-shirts, golf balls, and door mats emblazoned with a chalk outlined corpse. If you’re planning a trip to the fourth dimension, stock up on everything you’ll need at the Echo Park Time Travel Mart. There you can load up on humorous time travel relics from the past, present, and future.

Should you have the kids with you on your trip to L.A., there’s also a 20 foot-tall statue of the cartoon characters Rocky and Bullwinkle. It was originally erected in front of the cartoon’s producer’s offices to honor their most successful cartoon. Their offices have long been closed but the stature remains in front of the location’s current occupant’s dog care business.

It could be fun to make a list of all of the oddball attractions in you market and then put together a station-sponsored day-tour of them. Rent a bus and call it the Oddball Express and take a busload of listeners on a tour of the best of the best oddball attractions near you.

FIND QUIRKY TOURIST ATTRACTIONS NEAR YOU

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