Weird New York: Your Travel Guide to New York's Local Legends and Best Kept SecretsNew 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. |
Contents
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 |
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Acknowledgments | |
Roadside Oddities | 139 |
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Weird New York: Your Travel Guide to New York's Local Legends and Best Kept ... Chris Gethard No preview available - 2010 |
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