Oddball Indiana: A Guide to 350 Really Strange Places

Description

There is more to Indiana than the Indy 500, interstate highways (seven cross its borders), and basketball! The Hoosier State is teeming with fascinating people, one-of-a-kind places, and things with unique and bizarre histories. Skip the scenic dunes and cozy bed-and-breakfasts- let Oddball Indiana, now fully updated and expanded, take you where you really want to go. See: The World's Largest Ball of Paint, Peggy the Flying Red Horse, Square Donuts, James Dean's Grave, Historic Outhouse Collection, Museum of Psychophonics, Brain Sandwiches, Hillbilly Rick's Campground, A Christmas Story Town, Mr. Bendo, And Many, Many More Sites. This book belongs in your glove box-you never know when you'll be in range of an oddball adventure!

Jerome Pohlen is the author of the Oddball series and a regular travel commentator for 848 on WBEZ, the Chicago affiliate of National Public Radio. He is a recent recipient of the Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Award for Best Essay. He lives in Chicago.

"Travel with a twist." -- Bloomsbury Review "They run the gamut from cheap and tacky to mildly amusing to downright peculiar." -- Associated Press "Reads like a cross between Fodor's and Ripley's Believe It or Not." -- The Journal Gazette "What's a vacation without a little off-the-highway adventure?" -- Kokomo Tribune