What's the Strangest Place You've Visited?

[Virgo10]

Ever go some place that's so different from where you live that you feel like you've left the planet?

For me it would have to be Oregon/Crater Lake. Living in the Northeast where we have people shoulder to shoulder I found this whole area to be bizarre. Nobody's Home!

Crater Lake is magnificent but, wow, what a strange landscape. I felt like I was on the moon.

Anyone else?

Roberta

 

[kpgclark]

I can't remember the name of this place but it is near St. Louis. Many years ago it was a mine but has since filled up with water-- perfectly clear water. Everything is still in the mine as it was when the miners were there. It is really unusual and you can scuba dive there!

 

[browneyes]

My dd's bedroom.

 

[GoofItUp]

My in-laws house.



Just kidding....sort of!

Edited to say: Ahhh, Browneyes. Looks like we have the same sense of humor!

 

[Bob Slydell]

Torture and S&M Museum in Amsterdam.

 

[monkeyboy]

I had a summer job reading water meters

I have been to some odd places. One I swear was a crackhouse, another was a house of "ill repute", and a bookie joint


That was an odd summer

 

[themepark]

The Flintstones Bedrock City in Arizona. It is located on the road between Williams, Arizona and the Grand Canyon. It is a roadside attraction built like a Flintstones village complete with statues of Fred, Barney and the gang. There was even a dinosaur slide like the dinosaur Fred slides down when he gets off work. It was really run down and just sat out in the middle of nowhere in the desert. Very bizarre.

 

[barbeml]

Bedrock City.

A long time ago (20 years?) my brothers, Dad and I went to the Grand Canyon. We kids studied the AAA guidebook ahead of time and saw an ad for "Bedrock City," advertised as a "recreation" of the Flintstones' home town. Altho we were all in our young 20s, we grew up with the Flintstones and thought it would be fun to stop.

The worst, lamest, most broken-down pathetic tourist trap you can imagine. Somewhere we still have video tape of this place. We were literally bent over laughing at how bad it was.

Barbe

 

[themepark]

OMG Barbeml! We posted about the same bizarro place at exactly the same time! LOL! We were there 3 years ago and it was very rundown and operated by some "interesting" characters who looked like they may have just been released from prison. Funny to hear that it was rundown 20 years ago.

 

[Harley Chick]

We have a small town near us called Madrid (pronounced Maaa-drid). The first sign that something is "different" is that there is a message painted on the road on the way into town that reads "Don't freak out the locals". It's just one strange community of artisans and hippies. It gives me the creeps.

 

[AirForceRocks]

The strangest place I've been to is some town in Florida (can't remember the name) where stuff appears to roll uphill rather than downhill. It was many, many years ago, and I think it's in the northern part of the state, but I can't remember the name of it. I just remember that it was really, really strange.

 

[CEDmom]

We went to Bedrock too! And how about the Corn Palace, has anyone else been there?

 

[Pam]

And how about the Corn Palace, has anyone else been there?

Yep - we've been to the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD.

In Virginia we stopped at a roadstop place that had giant dinosaur figures and a crocodile exhibit.....

 

[kasar]

Originally posted by AirForceRocks
The strangest place I've been to is some town in Florida (can't remember the name) where stuff appears to roll uphill rather than downhill. It was many, many years ago, and I think it's in the northern part of the state, but I can't remember the name of it. I just remember that it was really, really strange.

We went to a place like this in Canada (St. John's, I think). You're supposed to drive to this hill and put the car in neutral and it feels like you're driving backwards up a hill. I don't really remember it but I do remember my DH being so fascinated by the whole thing and I remember my own "so what"? reaction. It was really strange - I think it's called "Magnetic Hill" or something.

That whole trip was strange, we went to the Bay of Fundy which was beautiful but during low tide you can walk on the ocean floor. When the tide comes in a couple of hours later, it's completely under water. It's really cool but not many people (around here, at least) have heard of it. Different but fun.

 

[Microcell]

From the plains to the mountains is always jarring to me. It is nice, but so amazing to see the Rockies just coming out of nowhere. For those of you who have not been from the Kansas side it is literally flat as a pancake until you hit Mountain and then huge mounds of earth! I believe there is no more beautiful place in this country. Feel free to flame!

 

[dianeschlicht]

Definitely the top of Haleakala! This is a dormant volcano on Maui, and it is much like the moon with very strange plants that are only known to grow there and nowhere else on earth. Watching the sun rise out of that crater is a very strange sight!

 

[Virgo10]

Originally posted by kasar
We went to a place like this in Canada (St. John's, I think). You're supposed to drive to this hill and put the car in neutral and it feels like you're driving backwards up a hill. I don't really remember it but I do remember my DH being so fascinated by the whole thing and I remember my own "so what"? reaction. It was really strange - I think it's called "Magnetic Hill" or something.

That whole trip was strange, we went to the Bay of Fundy which was beautiful but during low tide you can walk on the ocean floor. When the tide comes in a couple of hours later, it's completely under water. It's really cool but not many people (around here, at least) have heard of it. Different but fun.

There's a place like that in Florida. Spook Hill in Lake Wales.
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf079/sf079g13.htm

I saw a bit about it on TV once. Really freaky!

Roberta

 

[WDWLVR]

Strangest place - Haiti. Years ago cruise ships used to stop there as one of their ports. It was very strange and very sad. The young boys would swim out to the ship and beg for money to be tossed over board and then dive for it. Their "factories" were people sitting under trees carving furniture.

 

[skuttle]

The strangest place I ever visited was when I was in Paris, I visited the catacombs (sp?)...I even took pictures! Lots and lots of bones underground..very strange...creepy.

 

[browneyes]

Originally posted by GoofItUp
Edited to say: Ahhh, Browneyes. Looks like we have the same sense of humor!

LOL! And we had the same sense of humor at the same time. I liked your answer better though.