Weird New York: Your Travel Guide to New York's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2005 - Travel - 268 pages
New York is one of the world biggest metropolises. This guide talks about Long Island's Big Duck, Moan and Groan Road in, of all places, a town called Hope, and the Jell-O Museum in Le Roy. It tells you what to do in Spook Rock Road, how to find the world's largest pet cemetery, or what to do if you bump into the Lady of Lake Ronkonkoma.
 

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A Note from the Marks
6
Welcome to Weird New York
8
Local Legends and Lore
11
Unsolved Mysteries and Unexplained Phenomena
22
Fabled People and Places
42
Bizarre Beasts
68
Local Heroes and Villains
84
Personalized Properties and Visionary Environments
109
Roads Less Traveled
178
Haunted Places Ghostly Tales
189
Cemetery Safari
207
Abandoned in New York
231
Index
264
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Copyright

Roadside Oddities
139

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