Oddball Colorado

Oddball Colorado
Author: Jerome Pohlen
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2002-09-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 156976462X

A high-altitude alligator farm. A UFO watchtower. A monument to a headless chicken. While other travel guides tell you about tackling Pike's Peak, skiing the back bowls, or rafting down the Arkansas River, this quirky regional resource offers unusual travel destinations and little-known historical tidbits. Imagine regaling coworkers with unique Rocky Mountain adventures, like spending an evening at a drive-in movie . . . in a queen-sized bed, or visiting a vapor cave clad only in a towel. How about seeing a two-headed dragon made of car parts, or watching cliff divers while eating Mexican food?

Strange But True, Colorado

Strange But True, Colorado
Author: John Hafnor
Publisher: John Hafnor
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780964817531

Find out quirky facts and wacky trivia about Colorado.

Oddball Colorado

Oddball Colorado
Author: Jerome Pohlen
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 1556524609

Monuments to all that is bizarre are contained in this guide, with location, websites, open hours, cost, and directions included. Pohlen is ecumenical in his tastes, including really kitschy tourist traps as well as bizarre oddities such as the barber shop of a would-be messiah. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Oddball

Oddball
Author: Sarah Andersen
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1524876305

The newest Sarah's Scribbles collection from New York Times bestselling author and Goodreads Choice award winner Sarah Andersen. The fourth book in the enormously popular graphic novel series, the latest collection of Sarah's Scribbles comics explores the evils of procrastination, the trials of the creative process, the cuteness of kittens, and the beauty of not caring about your appearance as much as you did when you were younger. When it comes to humorous illustrations of the awkwardness and hilarity of millennial life, Sarah's Scribbles is without peer.

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.

Indian Placenames in America

Indian Placenames in America
Author: Sandy Nestor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

Arranged by state, provides information on name origins and histories of cities, towns, and villages in the U.S. that have Indian names. Includes population figures and county names.

Storm World

Storm World
Author: Chris C. Mooney
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2007
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0151012873

One of the leading environmental journalists and bloggers working today, Chris Mooney delves into a red-hot debate in global meteorology and weather forecasting: whether the increasing ferocity and frequency of hurricanes are connected to global warming. In the wake of Katrina, Mooney follows the lives and careers of the two leading scientists on either side of the debate through the 2006 hurricane season, tracing how government, the media, big business, and politics influence the ways in which weather patterns are predicted, charted, and even defined. Mooney written a fascinating and urgently compelling book that calls into question the great inconvenient truth of our day: Are we responsible for making hurricanes even bigger monsters than they already are?

Oddball Wisconsin

Oddball Wisconsin
Author: Jerome Pohlen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

Chatty Belle, the World's Largest Talking Cow. The Mendota Monster. Apostles on Parade. The UFO Capital of the World. Romeo, the clown-stomping elephant. Car-washing octopi. Other travel guides suggest the same old scenic driving tours, homey bed-and-breakfasts, and the best fall foliage—Oddball Wisconsin offers offbeat travel destinations and little-known historical tidbits. Where was Liberace born? What is a hodag and where do you catch one? Who invented the hamburger? And will a Polka Hall of Fame ever be built? This is the guide to the real Wisconsin, birthplace of the snowmobile, the typewriter, and the ice cream sundae, home to Jimmy the Groundhog and home of the Rudolph Grotto and Wonder Cave—the state where people proudly wear the moniker “cheesehead.”