Welcome to Southern California, where residents take their pooches out for ice cream at the Hydrant Café, attend an annual Blessing of the Cars, and then climb aboard a hearse for a Grave Line Tour to find out how, when, where, and sometimes why Hollywood's finest died. If you're a sports fan, visit the Baseball Reliquary, home to a partially smoked cigar of Babe Ruth, a fragment of skin from the inner left thigh of baseball pioneer Abner Doubleday, and the gold-plated shovel used by Angels owner Gene Autry during groundbreaking ceremonies at Anaheim Stadium in 1964. And don't forget the world's largest champagne glass, still bubbling away at the Lawrence Welk Museum. With this book in hand, readers will be sure to laugh as they learn what lies way off the beaten path in this part of the Golden State.

Southern California Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities, & Other Offbeat Stuff (Curiosities Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Rubin, Saul

Humor

Globe Pequot

A guide to Northern California's offbeat and wacky people, places, and events.

Insiders' Guide Northern California Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

Globe Pequot Pr

An entertaining collection of 101 quintessential places, people, events, customs, lingo, and eats that help define the personality of the Golden State.

You Know You're in California When...: 101 Quintessential Places, People, Events, Customs, Lingo, and Eats of the Golden State

Reference

The definitive collection of San Francisco's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for San Francisco residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.

San Francisco Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (Curiosities Series)

Offbeat Museums contains profiles of the curators and collections of America's most unusual museums. From the Banana Museum in California to the Tragedy in U.S. History Museum in Florida, Saul Rubin takes you on a guided tour of the United States' strangest institutions, and introduces you to the offbeat people who run them. Included among the places you will visit are: Cockroach Hall of Fame The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices Mister Ed's Elephant Museum The Museum of Jurassic Technology The Mütter Museum Houdini Historical Center UFO Enigma Museum The Museum of Menstruation Nut Museum 50 museums in all! In the age of cable television and the World Wide Web it's easy to smugly believe that we've seen it all. Such institutions as the Museum of Death, the Museum of Bathroom Tissue, and the Glore Psychiatric Museum suggest otherwise. By stepping outside the mainstream, these offbeat museums meet and even surpass the promise of more traditional museums: To amaze, inspire and enlighten the public. So turn off the TV, log off the Net, and let Offbeat Museums take you on a journey of unexpected wonder and discovery!

Offbeat Museums: The Collections and Curators of America's Most Unusual Museums

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Santa Monica Press

From the Liberace Museum in Nevada to the Banana Museum in California to Leila's Hair Museum in Missouri, this illustrated guide carries readers into the most unusual collections ever gathered and put on display--and into the minds of the men and women who obsessively assembled them. Think you've "been there, done that?" Well maybe you haven't quite seen it all. Saul Rubin's enthusiastic journey through the showcases of our country's weirdest wonders suggests that there are modern cabinets of curiosities all around--if you just know where to look. So take a step into these pages and be amazed to find The Cockroach Hall of Fame, The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, Mister Ed's Elephant Museum, The UFO Enigma Museum, The Museum of Bathroom Tissue--and forty-five others! Each entertaining listing features photos, descriptions, history, profiles and all of the essential information you need to plan a visit to one of these unique sites.

Offbeat Museums: A Guided Tour of America's Weirdest and Wackiest Museums

Black Dog Leventhal

An entertaining look at the historical, legal, political, medicinal, and social aspects of what has been called the world's most versatile plant. This fascinating tour of the marijuana universe is for friend and foe alike. Offbeat Marijuana chronicles the history of the world's most versatile plant. From its use by the Chinese in 3,000 B.C.E. to battle malaria, to the burgeoning American Hemp industry of the 17th and 18th centuries, to the politically-motivated demonization of the 1930s, to the U.S. Government's schizophrenic directive to farmers to grow "Hemp for Victory" during World War II, to its enduring presence in late-20th century popular culture, Offbeat Marijuana dares the reader to judge the true nature of this controversial plant.

Offbeat Marijuana: The Life and Times of the World's Grooviest Plant

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

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