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    EvenBaggierTrousers4Kristin Wong
    7/18/16 12:59pm

    We used this website when we were preparing for our drive from Denver to Boston. Thanks to Roadside America we visited the Mother Featherlegs monument (the only monument dedicated to a prostitute), the world’s largest concrete prairie dog, a sculpture of a skeleton man walking a skeleton dinosaur, the grave of Roy Chapman (the only player to die during a baseball game. While there, we also stumbled across the grave of Eliot Ness) and the Sock Monkey museum.

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      Kristin WongEvenBaggierTrousers4
      7/18/16 1:30pm

      Ha! Sounds like a fun time.

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      OmegaUnlimitedEvenBaggierTrousers4
      7/18/16 3:56pm

      We used it for our trip from Kentucky to Denver. We found the birthplace of Kool-Aid (Hastings, NE) and Carhenge (Alliance, NE).

      We found the site by Googling “What to see in Nebraska”.

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    Blind WillyKristin Wong
    7/18/16 2:41pm

    Roadtrippers (which used to be associated with Kinja) is a much better website, IMO.

    This isn’t bad though.

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      GinSnobBlind Willy
      7/18/16 5:30pm

      Interesting, I find the opposite to be true. Roadtrippers is cluttered and their giant icons hide one another too easily. I like their categories in theory, but in practice they’re more annoying than helpful. Roadside America looks straight outta 10 years ago but their map interface is solid. For me, I’m only looking for The Weird Stuff, which is all they do, so it’s perfect. There’s also Atlas Obscura, but honestly their navigation for what I want (‘show me all the weird stuff in this geographic area’) is super annoying.

      As someone who just spent the last year in the heart of America trying to find excuses to drive their scooter out to the middle of nowhere: Roadside America is my go to. From atomic cannons to giant statues of local Paul Bunyan imitators to abandoned missile silos to insane grave monuments and so much more, it’s been a good year thanks to them.

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      Blind WillyGinSnob
      7/19/16 8:18am

      I’ll have to give it a better look then :)
      I like looking for the weird stuff too. I’m heading to Maine in less than 2 weeks and plan on driving around looking for fun and weird stuff.

      You’re right about their oversized icons, that’s probably my biggest complaint.

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    tag007Kristin Wong
    7/18/16 1:39pm

    aka, here’s a bunch of potential Pokestops.

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    UclyddeKristin Wong
    7/18/16 12:32pm

    After all the Pokemon Go news, I expected this to be a list of locations with lots of PokeStops.

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