Strangest place you've ever been in the US?

[Taverner]

And this is not a good or bad thing, just a strange place.

For me: Celebration, FL

Yes, THE Disney town. Kool aid city. People were nice, everything was perfect, hell I think they even managed to AC the atmosphere surrounding the city.

A little history, originally Walt Disney envisioned EPCOT to be the center of a "Disney City" which would use modern technology and nostalgia to create "the perfect American city." Eventually this became Celebration.

Everything is perfect here, literally. All of the women look like movie stars, all the men look like models, all the children look like the Brady Bunch. At the same time, the city has gone out of its way to attract upper middle class minorities, as to create the ultimate perfect city.

[Joe Fields]

1. Definitely Dinosaur, Colorado.

Lived and worked there for five years in the oil drilling industry. Population at that time, 400. All of whom were real characters. Could have written a book about them, but it would have seemed too improbable.

[Initech]

2. Any number of random roadside attractions of I-65 and I-40

It's amazing the kind of random shit you see driving through the deep south!

[MiniMandaRuth]

3. Anywhere in New Mexico.

That place is mystical. Some weird energy hopping through there.

[NewWaveChick1981]

4. The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in

Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN. Went there in 1996. It was in a hole-in-the-wall row of shops by the Mississippi River, but it was weird cool. :applause: I found out later that it was featured in Roadside America, but at the time, several of us there for a U. S. Dept. of Education workshop were just trying to kill some time and saw it listed in a "fun things to do" book. A guy had collected a bunch of quack medical items and machines over the years, and it was amazing what he had. He had an working antique phrenology machine, and I got a phrenology reading. I still have it somewhere! :P Now I know what all the bumps on my head mean... :rofl:

Found out a couple of years ago that the museum had merged with (I think) the Minnesota Museum of History. It's not the same as having it in that old location, though---we were on a quest to find it back then! :D

Weird but way cool.... :toast:

[deucemagnet]

5. I've never been there, but I'd like to visit the Oregon Vortex...

...and the House of Mystery. It looks pretty freaky.

http://www.oregonvortex.com/