Road trip across these Weird United States!

Ah, summer vacation. Time for lemonade, a run through the sprinkler and road trips!

But I am not here to talk to you about your typical road trips to national parks or nearby cities. While those road trips are truly great and highly recommended, I am here to talk up a book with some of the strangest destinations you could possibly think of visiting. The best part? These are all real places and things you can actually visit!

Here are a few suggestions from the book:

Destination # 1:

The World's Largest Basket in Newark Ohio.

Look to your right. That is actually an office building made to look like a giant basket!

This is no joke, renowned basket maker, Dave Longaberger began his career making regular size baskets. Soon Dave found he was thinking bigger. Longaberger created a 30 foot model of an apple basket which is located in Frazeyburg Ohio.

In 1999, prior to his death, Dave Longaberger designed his masterpiece, an exact copy of his company's trademark Longaberger Medium Basket 160 times the size of its model! This giant basket came in the form of a 7 story office building which employs a workplace of about 500 people!

How do you like them apples?

Destination # 2:

Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska

England a little too far of a plane trip to see the real Stone Henge? Not to worry, artist Jim Reinders with the help of his very kind family has recreated the ancient monument in Alliance, Nebraska using used automobiles!

38 cars were positioned, some partially buried in pits about 5 feet deep, in order to mirror the actual proportions of Stone Henge which lies outside of London England.

Carhenge is actually also a memorial to Reinder's father who once resided on the farmland where the sculpture stands today.

Destination # 3:

The Giant Duck in Flanders, New York on Long Island

I must confess, this destination is not actually in the Weird America book, however it is the easiest of its type to travel to as it is right in our very own backyard!

This 20 foot tall, 30 foot long bird was designed by a duck farmer named Martin Mauer in Riverhead New York. Mauer had been tickled pink when he had visited California and seen oddly shaped buildings such as a Giant Coffee Pot.

In 1931, Mauer built The Duck and began selling eggs and livestock out of it as a shop. To this day The Duck is a favorite of Long Island residents. Why not take a Sunday with the family drive out east, stop at a few farm stands and visit our very own roadside oddity?

Posted by Miss Jessikah