Oddball Indiana: A Guide to 350 Really Strange Places

by Jerome Pohlen

Overview

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— let Oddball Indiana, now fully updated and expanded, take you where you really want 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 Story Town, 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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613738498
Publisher:	Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/01/2017
Series:	Oddball series
Edition description:	Second Edition, Second edition
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	617,484
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 Northern Indiana 1

Map of Northern Indiana 59

2 Central Indiana 61

Map of Central Indiana 117

3 Southern Indiana 119

Map of Southern Indiana 183

4 Indianapolis and Suburbs 185

5 John Dillinger Diapers to Death Tour 215

Epilogue 233

Acknowledgements 237

Recommended Sources 241

Index by City Name 249

Index by Site Name 261

Editorial Reviews

"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

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