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This entertaining guide directs travelers to the off-the-wall and offbeat destinations in Florida, home of gator wrestlers, school bus demolition derbies, Hemingway wannabes, the Fountain of Youth, the Nudist Hall of Fame, and a utopian community based on the premise that the earth is not round, but concave. Additional oddball attractions include a graveyard for roosters, the world’s largest strawberry, the world’s smallest police station, and museums dedicated to seashells, hamburgers, oranges, teddy bears, sponges, air conditioning, and one very old petrified cat. Documenting local oddities and forgotten history, this travel guide covers Florida in six regions with maps and detailed directions for each site as well as phone numbers, hours, websites, and various photographs.
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Jerome Pohlen is the author of Oddball Minnesota, Oddball Colorado, Oddball Indiana, Oddball Illinois, and Oddball Wisconsin. He is a regular travel commentator for 848 on WBEZ, the Chicago affiliate of National Public Radio. He lives in Chicago.
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Beneath the glossy sparkle of Disney World and the palm tree-lined sandy beaches, there's a lot of weird stuff going on in Florida. Pohlen, an oddball travel connoisseur (he's penned Oddball books on Minnesota, Colorado, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana), tells readers where to find, among other attractions, an art museum dedicated to painted bowling balls; a shop that sells shellacked alligator heads and google-eyed frogs made from clam shells; and a cemetery where dead fighting cocks are buried. Pohlen splits the book into regions and gives specifics for each site. While there are plenty of peculiar places listed here (e.g., a sinkhole in Winter Park, where, one night in 1981, an auto repair shop, a home, a Laundromat and a swimming pool all disappeared), many sites aren't odd at all. The Kennedy Space Center, for example, is "a place where nerds with pocket protectors, the ones who push the boundaries of human exploration, are given the respect they deserve." Other entries are just places where famous incidents took place, such as the mall where Jennifer Capriati got busted for shoplifting. Maps, b&w photos.
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