New Roadside America: The Modern Traveler's Guide to the Wild and Wonderful World of America's Tourist - Softcover

Mike Wilkins; Ken Smith; Doug Kirby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671769316 ISBN 13: 9780671769314

Publisher: Fireside, 1992

Synopsis

Guides travelers through many of America's most unusual roadside tourist attractions

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Review:

Roadside America is a Baedeker to the junkiest attractions on America's major, minor, and nearly forgotten highways. Planning to see Graceland? Why not let this delightful volume direct you on the complete Elvis tour, including a miniature "Elvis City" in Roanoke, Virginia; the Elvis-theme McDonald's in Elvis's birthplace of Tupelo, Mississippi; and the Elvis Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Learn about the Curse of the Pyramids, and see the many unfinished pyramids that litter America's heartland. Jump into the debate about which town has the largest ball of string, the biggest tree stump, or America's true weather-forecasting groundhog. The locations of giant statues of the Jolly Green Giant, an "African village" in South Carolina claiming to be an independent kingdom, and the mysterious "Thing" of the Sonoran Desert are all found here. Buy it and drive west, young trendies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fireside
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0671769316
• ISBN 13: 9780671769314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288