Secret Connecticut: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Secret Connecticut: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Author: Anastasia Mills Healy
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2021-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1681063050

Did you know that there’s a Connecticut hotel room with a real helicopter inside? Can you guess who inspired the character of Indiana Jones, who was president before George Washington, and who flew before the Wright Brothers? Find the state’s most interesting and offbeat stories in Secret Connecticut: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. Are you interested in taking a safari or racing a chariot? Had you ever heard that Martin Luther King Jr. spent two summers in Connecticut? Included are more than eighty engaging stories that provide insight into one of America’s oldest states. Inside are tales of pirates, an underground prison, and a possessed doll. Aren’t you curious about the spectacular stained glass church that was unknowingly built in the shape of a fish by a famous architect? From the world’s smallest Native American reservation to professionally coiffed cows and a replica of Marie Antoinette’s palace, you’ll find intrigue around every corner of this small but surprising state. Author Anastasia Mills Healy brings to life the long history of intriguing people, places, and events that will fascinate even life long residents of Connecticut.

Weird Maryland

Weird Maryland
Author: Matthew Lake
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2006
Genre: Curiosities and wonders
ISBN: 1402739060

GET WEIRD! “Best Travel Series of The Year 2006”—Booklist What’s weird around here? Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman asked themselves this question for years. And it’s precisely this offbeat sense of curiosity that led the duo to create Weird N.J. and the successful series that followed. The NOT shockingly result? EveryWeirdbook has become a best seller in its region! ((Series Sales Points)) This best-selling series has sold more than one million copies…and counting Thirty volumes of the Weird series have been published to great success since Weird New Jersey's 2003 debut

Secret California: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Secret California: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Author: Ruth Carlson
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 168106331X

How do you step into a live fairytale with aerial dancers, opera singers, and a huge rabbit? Where can you walk on a beach covered with broken pottery? What is the Institute for Abnormal Arts? Who will show you evidence Bigfoot is real? Find the answers to these questions and many more in Secret California: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. This is a book for travelers who love to meet quirky characters, discover oddities, and experience littleknown aspects of the Golden State. Learn the fascinating tales behind all the points of interest and discover some new places to look for adventure. Learn where to spend a night in a museum, explore an underground city, and watch silent movies in the same theater where Charlie Chaplin premiered The Tramp. Find out about the country’s only perfume museum, how a wall became covered in frogs, and why a colorful garden will not grow. Whether it’s an ancient society’s crypt or the second city underneath the capital, this guide leaves no stone unturned. Author Ruth Carlson uses her years of experience as a Californian to fill you in on the hilarious, the bizarre, and the beautiful in this unusual guidebook so you can experience the hidden treasures locals would like to keep to themselves—if only they knew about them!

Weird Washington

Weird Washington
Author: Jeff Davis
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1402745451

Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don't venture. These unique travel guides are chock-full of information about oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, and peculiar roadside attractions.

Weird Wisconsin

Weird Wisconsin
Author: Linda S. Godfrey
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005
Genre: Ghosts
ISBN: 0760759448

Secrets of Disneyland

Secrets of Disneyland
Author: Dinah Williams
Publisher: Union Square Kids
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Amusement parks
ISBN: 9781454908135

Collects facts about the Anaheim, California amusement park, from why gum has never been sold in the park to how many people have been on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

Weird Arizona

Weird Arizona
Author: Wesley Treat
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2007
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1402739389

Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don't venture, including oddball curiosities, local legends, crazy characters, and peculiar roadside attractions.

Secret Kansas City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Secret Kansas City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Author: Anne Kniggendorf
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1681062836

Most visitors know all about Kansas City’s barbecue, jazz, and football success, but there are hidden gems and wild pieces of trivia around every turn in Missouri’s largest city. Is the giant Hereford bull anatomically correct? Can a seed that’s been to outer space still grow into a normal tree? And who really killed President William Henry Harrison? You’ll find answers to the questions you didn’t know you had in Secret Kansas City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. Learn why three completely unrelated groups have chosen Kansas City as the center of the world and the place you want to be when the world ends. Between these covers, you’ll also find castles, a horse buried in a cul-de-sac, a ghost who likes a good laugh, and the world’s longest snake. This is not a tour guide for outsiders; it’s a scavenger hunt—insiders only, please. Longtime Kansas Citian Anne Kniggendorf is at your service to bolster your love and boost your respect for this middle-of-the-map city. With her eye for the odd leading the way, you’ll have a great time discovering Kansas City.

Strange Secrets

Strange Secrets
Author: Nick Redfern
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2003-05-20
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0743482018

IF YOU THOUGHT THAT THE X-FILES WAS ONLY FICTION, THINK AGAIN! For as long as extraterrestrial and paranormal phenomena have been investigated, the official government response to any events deemed "otherworldly" or unexplainable has been well documented: DENIAL. Not because they aren't interested in UFOs, monsters, and psychic abilities -- but because they have their own secret agendas for using this knowledge. In this thoroughly researched compendium of conspiracies and cover-ups, the remarkable findings that have been documented (and supposedly debunked) by the governments of the United States, Great Britain, and the former Soviet Union are finally revealed, including Attempts by the U.S. Air Force to build a fleet of nuclear-powered flying saucers... The British military's files on the Loch Ness monster and other mysterious beasts... The Cold War race between the CIA and the KGB to create the perfect psychic spy/assassin... The real story behind the enigmatic "Men in Black," who terrify UFO witnesses into silence... For anyone who wants to know the truth -- or the truth behind the truth -- Strange Secrets is the ultimate resource to understanding exactly what the government doesn't want us to know -- and why they want to keep us in the dark.

Strange Secrets

Strange Secrets
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1895
Genre: Ghost stories
ISBN: