What's the Strangest Place You've Visited?

[cajunmommy]

It's a Paris memory for me too... The underground sewer tours! Of course, it has a much more romantic name in French. They actually even use a tie-in to the Phantom of the Opera story during the presentation.

While planning our trip, I jokingly suggested this to DH (a civil engineer) as a potential stop. Little did I know he'd take me seriously! Should've known from past vacations.....Look at that cool bridge.....Check out that huge pump station....let's go see the reservoir control structures....:yawn: Guess I shouldn't complain - it pays the rent!

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Originally posted by 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.

Whoa, I remember this! It was really weird

 

[Vivianne]

On our first trip to Maine we visited the Desert of Maine.

It's a tourist attraction in Freeport, Maine. You get a tour of the location explaining something about glaciers and how the owner of the land was an unsucessful farmer.

You can roam also around on your own. You get the feeling you are in the middle of the desert.



I actually liked it. I try to look for different things on my vacations.

 

[Keli]

There's a place near Glasgow, KY that was pretty cheesy nearly a decade ago (it's since been through a fire and bought by others so it might be much different now, I have no idea really). It was called Guntown Mnt. We went because my BIL and DH had fond memories of trips there as kids. Unfortunately at the time it was horribly run down. But there was one thing that cracked me up. When all the cowboys would pose with a family for pictures they'd have their six-shooters pointing up in the air. Then when they'd tell everyone to say cheese they would point their guns at the person's head that was closest to them and the families in the pics never seemed to notice. It made me laugh thinking about what those folks must have thought when they got their film developed.

 

[cats mom]

I have a daughter whose room also feels like a whole other universe

Have also been to Bedrock city - Yikes! I refused to pay for the place. My DH took the kids in the back for awhile and I just stayed in the 'gift shop' (just as scary) because I could see it was not worth giving them any more $$ than we had to!

Anyone been to big rock candy mtn. in Utah?
I vaugley remembered stopping there as a kid once - so told my family when we drove past there we would stop. Was not what I remembered. They were not at all impressed. They still give me a hard time about that one.
"Gee, if we're really good, maybe mom will let us stop at big rock candy mtn"

 

[Jolie C]

Craters of the Moon in Idaho is pretty cool, as are the Sand Dunes.

 

[Kimberle]

Hey! I've been to the CORN PALACE, too!!!

Those Flinstone's sure move around a lot! I visited them in Bedrock City in the Blackhills area of SD!

I don't know if I'd call it "weird", but it sure sticks in my memory! When I was very young (early 70's, shortly before the big Rapid City Flood), we vacationed in the Black Hills of SD. We went to a real live Indian ceramony. I remember sitting around a campfire, while the Indian men, dressed in their fine feathers, etc. did traditional native dances. VERY COOL and interesting!!

 

[two4ruff]

The geographical center of North American in North Dakota.

Very exciting. Yep. Exciting.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Got to be the Buckhorn Museum in San Antonio Texas. I had read about it so we checked it out. It had floors of dead , stuffed animals, fish, bears,etc. and chairs made out of animal horns. They had a little bar that you could get rootbeer etc at. too. I was getting a little freaked out after a while because it seemed no matter where we went we were being surrounded by tons of dead animals.

 

[BethanyF]

Rockome Gardens has to be the strangest place we have ever been. I was really glad that we got free tickets from our hotel, I would have been mad if we paid for this.
Everything was very run down, dirty, and just ick. They had this thing where if you put in money some poor chicken would come out and jump around. They called it the Dancing Chicken. It was just sad, I felt awful for the animals.
The gift shop carried the same tacky stuff we saw at rest stops in the 70's. Very dated and just strange.

 

[barbeml]

Just saw your post!! OMG, how funny is that!

The "talking" Fred and Barney statues made death-rattle sounds. I remember the Dino-slide--we all slid down it and fell off it laughing hysterically.

My brother and I still have our souvenir "Bedrock City" shot glasses.

Barbe

 

[Poohbear123]

The Coral Castle in South Dade, by far, the strangest. How did that guy do it???

 

[stevenpensacola]

It would have to be the thread on Brazilian Bikini Waxing.

 

[antbritt]

Originally posted by 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.

OMG I actually have pics of me at that place from like 20 years ago !!!! I always thought I was the only person who ever went there!!! What a dump I cant believe that it is still there!!!

 

[kild]

Originally posted by barbeml
talking" Fred and Barney statues made death-rattle sounds.

That is almost worth going for! That is funny.

 

[RNMOM]

Are we the only people here who have visited...Roswell, New Mexico???????

It was a nice town but I was all hepped up for a nice, splashy museum. What we got was a coverted movie theater that doubles as a senior center. Yep, the seniors run it for a fund raiser for their projects. The old candy cases hold some of the souveniers. They have curtains and partitians that divide off the exhibits.

Now, I have to tell you we stopped on our drive from albuquerque to Carslbad Caverns. The sad part is...we stopped in again on our way back to pick up a couple more alien guitar picks.

 

[CindysGusGus]

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.

I think this may be Spook Hill, it was featured on the Travel Chnl. for being something cheap to do in central FLA.

Strangest place for me was Provincetown MA, my husband and I accidentally got stuck DRIVING down a street through (not with) a gay pride parade. I was laughing so hard at my DH's reaction that I missed where he could turn to get out. We had all these men dressed in stillettos, lace stockings and trojan hats walking towards our car. My DH was telling me to get him out of there now and all I could do was laugh!

 

[JetMom]

Originally posted by Vivianne
On our first trip to Maine we visited the Desert of Maine.

It's a tourist attraction in Freeport, Maine. You get a tour of the location explaining something about glaciers and how the owner of the land was an unsucessful farmer.

You can roam also around on your own. You get the feeling you are in the middle of the desert.



I actually liked it. I try to look for different things on my vacations.

Hey -- I've been to the Desert of Maine too!

I have also been to Praire Dog Town in Kansas. It is the home of "the world's largest prairie dog." The thing is about 10 feet tall and made of concrete!

It was the saddest little roadside zoo, but after seeing signs for 200 miles, we had to see the praire dog!

 

[pjlla]

Maybe not real unusual, but I had never seen this before. We were in the Pocohnos about 18 months ago and visited some boulder fields....... large open areas covered with rocks and boulder, almost as far as the eye can seen. Definitely made by glacier movement or something like that, not man made. The kids had a ball walking on the rocks, but us adults were afraid we were going to twist our ankles!! Got some cool family photos......P

 

[grinningghost]

A town called Harleyville in South Carolina. Had to stop there on our way home from WDW. Very strange place.