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— letOddball Indiana, now fully updated and expanded, take you where youreallywant 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 StoryTown, 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!
"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
Jerome Pohlen is an editor and travel writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Reader, Readers Digest, and TimeOut Chicago. He is the author of the Oddball series and Albert Einstein and Relativity for Kids among others. He lives in Chicago.