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Oddball Wisconsin: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places

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by Jerome Pohlen


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. More details...

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by Jerome Pohlen


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. Pohlen's guide offers a description of each curiosity is both informative and humorous and is followed by an address, telephone number, hours, cost, directions, and web site. 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.

  • Chatty Belle, the World's Largest Talking Cow.
  • The Mendota Monster.
  • The UFO Capital of the World.
  • Romeo, the clown-stomping elephant.
  • Ed Gein's "Psycho" Grave Site
  • Car-washing octopi.



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Pages: 256
b/w photos & maps

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