Zippo Lighter Visitors Center: Bradford, Pennsylvania – Offbeat Roadside Attractions
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You can buy your Zippo, take a look at the Zippo Collection, the Zippo-Car and very interesting is the big observation window…

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Moody’s Diner: Waldoboro, Maine – Offbeat Roadside Attractions
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Lovely and delicious diner, go inside and wait till they call your name, get seated and… hmmmm my breakfast tasted good.

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Looney Lagoon: Bath, Maine – Offbeat Roadside Attractions
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Sorry, the Looney Lagoon is no longer available — the attraction may have closed or be gone. When I visited the Lagoon, there were lots of tin sculptures.

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Mr. Bill Muffler Man: Jersey City, New Jersey – Offbeat Roadside Attractions
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A Muffler Man dressed as a lumberjack now clutches burger sign in front of a fast food restaurant. It looks a bit like Alfred E. Neumann from MAD.

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Gorilla Holds Aloft A VW Beetle: Leicester, Vermont – Offbeat Roadside Attractions
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It is a huge Gorilla in front of a car dealer. King Kong is carrying a VW Beetle. Nice idea for a “billboard”.

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Maine Discovery Museum: Bangor, Maine – Offbeat Roadside Attractions
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We have’t visited the Museum, we just took a picture of the Frog-Clock on the outside of the building.

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Space Farms Zoo and Museum: Beemerville, New Jersey – Offbeat Roadside Attractions
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This place is really special. Famous for Goliath, the World’s Largest Bear. A zoo with animals and a museum with a lot of crap…

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Ray Murphy’s Chainsaw Show: Hancock, Maine – Offbeat Roadside Attractions
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Ray Murphy a great chainsaw sculptor, gives tour-de-force live performances in his custom-built sound-proof booth. We just stopped and saw some of those sculptures – no cance to watch the show.

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Holding the Cloud : Forced Perspective Photography
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Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.

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Strictly Moose: Gorham, New Hampshire – Offbeat Roadside Attractions
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“Everything for the moose lover”. Established in 1997, this unique shop is right in the heart of moose country. It was closed when we arrived.

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