I'm sure every locale has its selection of places that are a bit, shall we say, odd. Around here, there are a bunch of them.

One example is found in the town that is just north of here. Everyone has heard of Graceland, at least most Americans have. But how many have heard of Graceland Too?

Here are some photos of it, taken near sunset so a certain color wasn't quite so vibrant.









Yes, it's an Elvis museum, but cut from a different cloth. Here's an article on the place from Roadside America. Nope, haven't been inside, not yet.

BTW, Roadside America is a fascinating site. For example, its reviewers pull no punches when writing about the various ID/Creationist museums that litter the American landscape. Each must have had a course in critical thinking before being accepted as members of the Roadside America team.

So, does anyone out there have any strange and unusual places that are in their vicinity?

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Yes!

I havn't got any photo's atm though...

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If this writing is blue you're going too fast!

Most people have heard of Stonehenge, did you know there is a Woodhenge, 1/2 a mile away from the Stonehenge?

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Round...everything is always round!

Three blocks from my house, there's this.

"We had a wood'enge around here once, but it rotted." :P

Anyways, a city near here has a statue of an elephant, however, a few years ago now he needed to be repainted, so they put on the undercoat, which was bright pink, and left him like that for a couple of weeks.

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Not in my neighbourhood. But I once visited Scotland, and there is this statue of Wellington in Glasgow which always grows a strange conical protrusion every night.

I suggest we start a project to find out which alien race is giving us hints about our impending doom with this unusual message .

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The site where I work used to be owned by ICI. Many years ago, it was a very large chemical plant, but it is now occupied by several different companies. It has "streets", laid out in a grid pattern (rather unusual for the UK) - those going north-south are Roads and have numbers, while those going east-west are Avenues, and have actual names.

Before a certain section of the site was fenced off a year or two ago, we could get to the on-site fire station (for extinguisher training, you know) by walking down Ammonia Avenue, along Road 13, then turning right onto Nitrate Avenue. It's just a shame they never put the names on any maps...

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The quarrelsome oarsmen were rowing,
The great violinist was bowing;
But how is the sage
To tell, from the page:
Was it pigs or seeds that were sowing?

I used to work in Glasgow. Somtimes the traffic cone would be on Wellington's head, and sometimes it would be on his horse's head. I once saw the statue with two traffic cones.

I think there is even a postcard that features a photo of that statue complete with traffic cone.

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The quarrelsome oarsmen were rowing,
The great violinist was bowing;
But how is the sage
To tell, from the page:
Was it pigs or seeds that were sowing?

When I visited, the horse had the traffic cone on its, errr, bum (sadly, no photo).

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Saw this in Lewistown, Montana and I always thought is was a bit of an odd combination. Of course, that is how niches get filled in small towns.

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Don't have a picture of it, but years ago when I was stationed at Barksdale AFB, there was a sign in front of an office building that said, "Food Services, Mortuary Services."

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http://www.rrac.org

http://www.texastwisted.com/attr/pecan/

When we moved here I thought this was really weird; kind of used to it now.

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I saw this back when I was a travelin' musician:

Carhenge

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An unarmed man is a subject"

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I did, but it has nothing on this...

Which is posted directly above me. Wups. I really have to wait for the page to finish loading before assuming I've hit the end.

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"The plan does not involve mayonaise."
"... I knew there was a catch."

You can't take the sky from me.

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And the "driving on the freeway on a scooter" analogy still holds true because the pilots are sitting in 7 to 30 ton aircraft o' doom and you are running around them in your very own Meatbody, Mark I. Beep, beep.
Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

Wow, that's some pecan!

Speaking of nuts, my wife and I spent an afternoon one weekend during the 1970s being entertained by this lady. We even got to hear her rendition, with piano accompaniment, of her "Nuts Are Beautiful" song.

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In the spring of 2002, I was in Tupelo on business. While pulling out of a side street on to South Gloster Street, I noticed this gas station sign. My immediate reaction was, "Aha, so that's why Ted and Jane Fonda split up!"



Then I realized it was an ad for a gallon of Turner-brand homogenized milk for $2.49...

Gas prices were a bit lower four years ago, weren't they?

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Then there's Foamhenge.

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A no-kidding castle (quite a large one, too) sits about half a mile from where I live. Whenever I get restless I walk there, once around it, and return.

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Whoever says "perception is reality" is daft. It's merely an abstraction, and often not a very good one.