Budget Travel's Guide to Roadside Attractions
August 19, 2007. So, you're driving to a luxury vacation rental when it appears on the horizon: a giant pair of scissors. Then, you see the Eiffel Tower. Next, a 40-foot-tall Paul Bunyan.
You could be in anywhere in America, with its affinity for eye-catching roadside attractions. RoadsideAmerica.com , self-dubbed "Your Online Guide to Offbeat Tourist Attractions," highlights strange sights such as these all over the country. The aforementioned oddities can be found in Northern California .
Other sights include the world's largest ball of string, found in Missouri, and the largest Jackalope, spotted in Wyoming.
The website also features weird news tidbits related to roadside attractions, such as this item about a "vampire peacock memorial" in New York City:
"On the morning of June 28, 2007, a peacock wandered into the parking lot of a Burger King on Staten Island in New York City. The workers were astonished, and walked outside to feed it bread. What happened next was even more astonishing. A homeless man appeared, grabbed the bird by the neck, threw it to the ground, and stomped it to death… 'I'm killing a vampire!' he cried, and then ran away.
"Police caught the man four days later… He was identified as John Potts. His mother explained that he was a schizophrenic who actually loved animals, but who had also stopped taking his medicine. When the police asked him why he had killed the peacock, Potts replied, 'It had negative energy. It came out of the darkness and I kicked it.'"
