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| Author | : Colleen Burcar |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2012-10-02 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0762790679 |
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Wolverine State has to offer! Whether you’re a born-and-raised Michiganite, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Michigan Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Colleen Burcar takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sites in theWolverine State. Experience some raucous festivals that celebrate everything from Elvis and Jimmy Buffett to bologna and chicken gizzards. Visit the home of the world’s largest burger, where you can still order a 100-pound Goliath burger, topped off with a one-and-a-half-gallon Colossal sundae—and don’t forget the 20-inch chocolate chip cookie. Discover where the law of gravity is broken, tour an actual glass house (the ultimate recycling project), and visit some amazing stone “hobbit” houses.
| Author | : Colleen Burcar |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2012-10-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0762790687 |
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Wolverine State has to offer! Whether you’re a born-and-raised Michiganite, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Michigan Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Colleen Burcar takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sites in theWolverine State. Experience some raucous festivals that celebrate everything from Elvis and Jimmy Buffett to bologna and chicken gizzards. Visit the home of the world’s largest burger, where you can still order a 100-pound Goliath burger, topped off with a one-and-a-half-gallon Colossal sundae—and don’t forget the 20-inch chocolate chip cookie. Discover where the law of gravity is broken, tour an actual glass house (the ultimate recycling project), and visit some amazing stone “hobbit” houses.
| Author | : Rick Yoder |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2010-01-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1461747384 |
Discover Nebraska’s curious underside with this oddly entertaining little guide! Travelers with a taste for the bizarre, tacky, and hilarious can visit the Avoca Quack-Off, learn about the inland Linoma Lighthouse, view a Roller Skating Museum, and pay a visit to the world’s largest covered wagon. Only true Cornhuskers could capture the essence of these and other authentic Nebraska phenomena, and Rick Yoder and David Harding do their home state proud.
| Author | : Eric Jones |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2009-11-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0762761601 |
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hawkeye State has to offer!
| Author | : Scotti Cohn |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2011-01-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0762774991 |
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Windy City has to offer! Whether you’re a born-and-raised Chicagoan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Chicago Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Scotti Cohn takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Windy City. Watch Daedalus and Icarus fly across the façade of the Savings of America Building—and wonder if the mural’s location might carry a message for the financial industry. . . . A baboon with wings? A predatory grasshopper? Figure out for yourself just what Picasso’s “gift to Chicago”—a sculpture unveiled in 1967—represents. Want to stand out? You can do so at the Ledge at Skydeck Chicago, an all-glass architectural wonder attached to the 103rd floor of the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower). Meet the man who travels the world impersonating President Obama.
| Author | : Colleen Burcar |
| Publisher | : Globe Pequot |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2012-10-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780762769780 |
This definitive collection of the Great Lakes State's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things is filled with quirky photographs throughout and maps for each region. Michigan Curiosities includes humorous state facts and amusing stories and serves as a combination almanac, off-the-wall travel guide, and wacky news gazette.
| Author | : Nichole Thieda |
| Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2003-07-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781403426819 |
Discusses what makes the state of Michigan unique, covering its government, major national parks, cultural attractions, landmarks, and cuisine.
| Author | : Jerome Pohlen |
| Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2014-05-01 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1613748930 |
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.
| Author | : Colleen Burcar |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2011-01-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0762767545 |
This book offers an inside look at over 25 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Great Lakes State.
| Author | : Richard Moreno |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2011-02-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0762774975 |
Whether you’re a born-and-raised Illinoisan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, IllinoisCuriosities will have you laughing out loud as Richard Moreno takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Prairie State. Take a date to the World’s Largest Laundromat, a 13,500-square-foot facility in Berwyn with 153 washers and 148 dryers in nearly constant use. Enter Chicago’s “sub” culture with a museum visit to the U-505, the only German submarine in the United States. Visit the site in Carthage where Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith was murdered on June 27, 1844. Learn about the strange case of H. H. Holmes’ notorious Murder Castle and the sad tale of Burr Oak Cemetery.
