Gross America
Author: Faulk, Richard
ISBN: 9781585429417
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 11 Oct 2012
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
Part "Weird U.S." and part "Roadside America," GROSSAMERICAoffers families a road trip through the USA that would delight the King of Bad Taste John Waters and the unflappable guys on MTV's "Jackass."p>/p>p>Sure, you could use your vacation days to take the family to the beach again. Or, you could plan a trip to see brains in jars, frozen dead guys, and visit a factory that makes candy-coated insects. You can-br>ul> li>head down to Houston, Texas, and walk inside a 27-foot model of the human intestinal system/li> li>visit a Civil War battlefield embalming diorama/li> li>head over to explorers Lewis Clark's latrines/li> li>look at the world's largest fungus/li> li>visit the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City/li> li>touch the oldest human turd/li> li>recoil from a massive human hairball that grew for seven years before it was surgically removed from the stomach of a 12-year-old girl who suffered from compulsive hair nibbling/li> li>see the corroded mandible of a Tyrannosaurus Rex at the nation's largest natural history museum in Chicago/li> li>visit the first funeral home to offer flameless cremation services/li> li>make a pilgrimage to Chicago to visit America's last remaining plastic vomit factory/li> li>journey to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to see a dog poop-fueled streetlamp/li> li>travel to Nederland, Colorado, for "Frozen Dead Guy Days," an annual celebration of at-home cryogenics experiments/li> li>spend some time among the preserved human brains at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum/li> li>take in the acclaimed cockroach dioramas of Plano, Texas/li>/ul>p>/p>p>b>Gross America/b> is a coast-to-coast catalog of the most grandly gross science experiments, beautifully bizarre art, and delightfully disgusting historical sites that America has to offer. Part travel atlas, part trivia guide, b>Gross America/b> presents these United States as you've never seen them before-weird, wonderful, strange, and totally, utterly gross./p>/p>
ISBN: 9781585429417
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 11 Oct 2012
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
Part "Weird U.S." and part "Roadside America," GROSSAMERICAoffers families a road trip through the USA that would delight the King of Bad Taste John Waters and the unflappable guys on MTV's "Jackass."p>/p>p>Sure, you could use your vacation days to take the family to the beach again. Or, you could plan a trip to see brains in jars, frozen dead guys, and visit a factory that makes candy-coated insects. You can-br>ul> li>head down to Houston, Texas, and walk inside a 27-foot model of the human intestinal system/li> li>visit a Civil War battlefield embalming diorama/li> li>head over to explorers Lewis Clark's latrines/li> li>look at the world's largest fungus/li> li>visit the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City/li> li>touch the oldest human turd/li> li>recoil from a massive human hairball that grew for seven years before it was surgically removed from the stomach of a 12-year-old girl who suffered from compulsive hair nibbling/li> li>see the corroded mandible of a Tyrannosaurus Rex at the nation's largest natural history museum in Chicago/li> li>visit the first funeral home to offer flameless cremation services/li> li>make a pilgrimage to Chicago to visit America's last remaining plastic vomit factory/li> li>journey to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to see a dog poop-fueled streetlamp/li> li>travel to Nederland, Colorado, for "Frozen Dead Guy Days," an annual celebration of at-home cryogenics experiments/li> li>spend some time among the preserved human brains at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum/li> li>take in the acclaimed cockroach dioramas of Plano, Texas/li>/ul>p>/p>p>b>Gross America/b> is a coast-to-coast catalog of the most grandly gross science experiments, beautifully bizarre art, and delightfully disgusting historical sites that America has to offer. Part travel atlas, part trivia guide, b>Gross America/b> presents these United States as you've never seen them before-weird, wonderful, strange, and totally, utterly gross./p>/p>
