Weird & Wacky Washington Places by Bree Coven Brown, Lisa Wojna, Lisa Wojna

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Washington State has a little bit of everything. It has the only rainforest in the United States; the only gas station designed as a reminder of Warren Harding's Teapot Dome Scandal; its very own replica of England's Stonehenge; and a curiosity shop crammed with shrunken heads, a two-headed calf, a mermaid, and other bizarre curios. Local journalists Bree Coven Brown and Lisa Wojna have spared no effort in tracking down the state's weird and wacky places; they even counted the 786 islands in Puget Sound, many of which appear only at low tide.

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This book explores Washington's truly peculiar and odd places-natural and supernatural phenomena, bizarre roadside attractions and places whose stories must be experienced to be believed: A full-scale replica of England's Stonehenge on a hill over-looking Maryville was built to commemorate soldiers killed in World War I, Seattle's famed Ye Olde Curiosity Shop boasts shrunken heads from Ecuador, a two-headed calf and a mermaid, In Skamania County, it is a crime to shoot or slay Bigfoot, and in Metropolitan King County, Sasquatch is a protected species, The town of Conconully, population 200, hosts the Testicle Festival and Cowboy Caviar Fete contest in homage to the prairie cowboy delicacy of bull testicles, A self-kicking machine at Rockport Country Store gives curious visitors a kick in the pants-an unlikely way to attract customers, A 10-foot lizard holding a cross decorates the church of God-Zillah in Zillah, WA, that adopted Godzilla as its mascot and says, "We got him saved.", During the Omak Stampede and World Famous Suicide Race, Native American riders from the nearby reservation, race their horses down a nearly vertical 210-foot slope and through the icy Okanogan River. And so much more...

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