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Quirky America

24 images Created 4 Aug 2019

Along the roadsides, and even at the entrance to amusement parks, America continues to have a fascination with 'the quirky".

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  • Starship Pegasus, a now defunct gaming center, with an exterior that resembles a star trek-like spaceship, sits off of the highway in rural texas.
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  • Just off of the main road through McLean, Texas was this large sign saying: Rattlesnakes.
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  • Psychic Readings in a converted house along Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
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  • A monster truck parked with the front tires perched atop two very large rocks.
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  • Visitors to the viewing area for the Marfa Lights, arrive early and set up their chairs to relax, and have the best view.
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  • A scattering of people, from a range of ages, occupies the viewing platform, at the Marfa Lights Viewing Station, at dusk, on the outskirts of Marfa, Texas.
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  • In the parking lot of Fall Creek Falls State Park, in Tennessee, a pickup sits parked. Its bed is filled with a life-size plastic deer.
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  • Graham Hamrick, of Phillippi, West Virginia, was born in 1821, and died in 1899.<br />
He was known, by his own words, as a “Farmer, Inventor, Shopkeeper, Undertaker”<br />
He was the inventor of a modern-day mummification process, which was lost when he died. This was one of two women that he mummified, after acquiring their corpses from the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. They now reside in the Barbour County Historical Museum, in Phillippe, West Virginia.
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  • Graham Hamrick, of Phillippi, West Virginia, was born in 1821, and died in 1899.<br />
He was known, by his own words, as a “Farmer, Inventor, Shopkeeper, Undertaker”<br />
He was the inventor of a modern-day mummification process, which was lost when he died. This was one of two women that he mummified, after acquiring their corpses from the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. They now reside in the Barbour County Historical Museum, in Phillippe, West Virginia.
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  • The half-buried Cadillacs, at Cadillac Ranch, stand as sentries silhouetted on the distant horizon against the predawn sky.
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  • The half-buried Cadillacs, at Cadillac Ranch, stand as sentries silhouetted on the distant horizon against the predawn sky.
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  • The half-buried Cadillacs, at Cadillac Ranch, stand as sentries silhouetted on the distant horizon against the predawn sky.
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  • The half-buried Cadillacs, at Cadillac Ranch, stand as sentries silhouetted on the distant horizon against the predawn sky.
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  • A partially eclipsed moon hangs above the Half-buried Cadillacs, at Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, with the predawn light slightly illuminating the Cadillacs.
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  • A partially eclipsed moon hangs above the Half-buried Cadillacs, at Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, with the predawn light slightly illuminating the Cadillacs.
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  • The Half-buried Cadillacs, at Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, stand as partially lit sentries against the predawn light behind them.
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  • The rear portion of one of the Cadillacs, at Cadillac Ranch, in Amarillo, Texas, that is thickly coated with painted graffiti of many colors, and layers, juts upward into the predawn sky.
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  • The rear portion of one of the Cadillacs, at Cadillac Ranch, in Amarillo, Texas, that is thickly coated with painted graffiti of many colors, and layers, juts upward into the predawn sky.
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  • The Half-buried Cadillacs, at Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, stand as partially lit sentries against the predawn light behind them.
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  • A close up of the heavy paint, and graphic shapes of the Cadillacs at Cadillac Ranch, in Amarillo, Texas, with the light of the predawn sky in the background.
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  • A close up of the heavy paint, and graphic shapes of the Cadillacs at Cadillac Ranch, in Amarillo, Texas, with the light of the predawn sky in the background.
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  • A close up of the heavy paint, and graphic shape of the Cadillac’s multi-colored rim, at Cadillac Ranch, in Amarillo, Texas, with the light of the predawn sky in the background.<br />
A close up of the heavy paint, and graphic shape of the Cadillac’s multi-colored rim, at Cadillac Ranch, in Amarillo, Texas, with the light of the predawn sky in the background.
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