Traveling in the van, I made an effort to go to cultural events that were uniquely American, even if they weren’t necessarily my cup of tea.  So when I saw...

It didn’t seem right that I had traveled across the U.S. for years and not seen a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in-person. I decided to remedy that by visiting...

The Bunny Museum was weird as hell. If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know I do my best to refrain from disparagement-- everyone's just out there...

Outside of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, is a natural hot spring that is serene and beautiful. Lots of locals recommended that I go, so I set out on a perfect...

Heading through Blackfoot, Idaho, I saw a sign that read "Idaho Potato Museum" and knew I had to stop. I just hoped they would serve potatoes-- and they did!...

America has more ridiculous roadside attractions than almost anywhere— and somehow, in my time on the road, I’ve now been to TWO of the three Dinosaur World locations. (I am...

The first thing that hits you about The Toilet Seat Museum is the scale. The second thing that hits you is that ONE man-- Barney Smith-- made ALL of...

How can you say you're in Texas without saying you're in Texas? That's right. If you're at "The Best Darn Gun Shop in the World!" (exclamation point, to boot)....

They say ‘there’s no place like home.’ When you’re living on the road, there’s no place like Love’s. It sounds cheesy, but Love’s has become a basecamp for me in...

Roswell is one of "those" places that is a perfect stopover on a roadtrip. It's a place that makes little sense to visit as a standalone destination-- just a...

I had no idea what to expect when heading for the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History outside Albuquerque. And when leaving it, I still wasn't...

A longtime fan of burlesque shows (my friends and I had been going for decades), I couldn't resist the temptation (HEY-OH!) to go to the Burlesque Hall of Fame...

Funny what you run into when driving in the Sonoran desert. Goodyear, Arizona, is not a town I'd heard of prior to rolling through it on a spring day....

Did you know that Lisa Frank's vast 90s empire was run from a corporate office based in Tucson? Well, me neither-- until I read an insane article from Jezebel,...

There is a privately-owned meteor crater in the middle of the desert in Arizona. On the way to Flagstaff, on a staggeringly windswept stretch of arid desert, lies an...

Being a "Sign Reader" is really annoying for your passenger, but sometimes it has its benefits. When traveling on the highway 10 between Phoenix and Tucson-- I read a...

Neither of us had ever seen the movie "Tombstone." But why not take the chance to see grown men re-enacting a gun battle in which some town drunks were killed...

Traveling east from Southern California to Arizona, you will pass "The Center of the World." There's no mistaking it-- a massive black triangle sign beckons from the highway, and begs...

I absolutely love having a proper road atlas. Call me old-fashioned, but algorithms and Google searches are only going to provide the most popular destinations-- and in my experience,...

People who nerd out about things and take them to extremes-- that's really what roadside America is all about. In Hot Springs, Arkansas, the newly-opened "Robo World" was a...