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Ohio Oddities: A Guide to the Curious Attractions of the Buckeye State
Ohio Oddities A Guide to the Curious Attractions of the Buckeye State Author:Neil Zurcher Ohioa bland and ordinary Midwestern state, right? Ha! You must never get off the highway. The Buckeye State has no shortage of strange, silly, goofy, quirky, eccentric, and just plain weird people, places, and thingsif you know where to look. And no one has looked in more places for Ohios oddities than Neil Zurcher, the popula... more »r Fox8 TV travel reporter who makes his living on the road seeking out unusual destinations. This book collects the most remarkable things hes found in and about the Buckeye State, including: Mysteries. Like the bottomless Blue Hole of Castalia and Ashtabulas famed Headless Chickenwho lived without a noggin for 38 days. Big things. Like the Worlds Largest . . . Crystal Ball . . . Gathering of Twins . . . Easter Basket . . . Cuckoo Clock . . . Peculiar claims to fame. Like the Oldest concrete road in America, the Worlds fastest pumpkin carver. Strange collections. Like the Objects Swallowed by Citizens of Lima; the nations only vacuum cleaner museum; and the worlds largest collection of popcorn poppers and peanut roasters. Notable citizens. Like Balto the Wonder dog, cheesemaking firewalker Komar the Magnificent, and Buckeye Chuck, the weather rodent. And the just-hard-to-explain. Like the Wellington ATM shaped like a Victorian horse and buggy or Ohios strange attachment to the bathtub from the U.S.S. Maine.« less