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Venice Beach Freakshow

Uploaded to the Wacko Nation Flickr Group by:  cafesiren

$3 buys you admission to The Venice Beach Freakshow, where the owner boasts that you can see:

We have a LIVE Two Headed Turtle, a two headed raccoon, a two headed chicken, 2 two headed calves, a two headed pig with 5 legs, a squirrel with 6 legs, a rooster with 3 legs, a duck with 4 legs, a tarantula with 12 legs, 2 cyclops pigs ( born with one eye in the middle of their face), a pig with 2 mouths, a pig with 8 legs 4 ears and 2 tails, all types of Strange sea creatures, a CHUPACABRA, 3 Human shrunken heads, A Real Black Mamba (the Deadliest and Fastest snake in the World), a Two Headed baby skeleton with 3 arms, a cyclops baby skull, a 3 ft wide GIant Alaskan King Crab (it’s a baby), a duck with one head and 2 bodies, and on and on.

- From OddTodd.com

Venice, CA

World’s Largest Bottle of Ketchup
Uploaded to the Wacko Nation Flickr Group by cafesiren. Thanks!

The World’s Largest Catsup Bottle stands proudly next to Route 159, just south of downtown Collinsville, Illinois. This unique 170 ft. tall water tower was built in 1949 by the W.E. Caldwell Company for the G.S. Suppiger catsup bottling plant - bottlers of Brooks old original rich & tangy catsup. 

In 1995, due to the efforts of the Catsup Bottle Preservation Group, this landmark roadside attraction was saved from demolition and beautifully restored to its original appearance.

Recognized the world over as an excellent example of 20th century roadside Americana, the World’s Largest Catsup Bottle regularly garners national attention and attracts visitors and tourists every day.

In August of 2002 it was named to the National Register of Historic Places.

-From the: Official Website and Fan Club of the World’s Largest Bottle of Catsup

Behold the Two Story Outhouse
Photo on WackoNation Flickr Group, posted by cafesiren.

A two-story outhouse is located in the town of Gays, IL. It was built in 1869 for apartments that were attached to a general store. The top floor was used by the apartment dwellers while the bottom floor was used by patrons of the store. Although the store and apartments were demolished, the outhouse remained. Each level has two seats, so the outhouse could be used by four at a time. Waste from the top level dropped behind a false wall into a pit. It is now in a small public park which is dedicated for outhouse promoter and former Gays mayor Gene Goodwin.

West of the outhouse is the former site of what was claimed to be Hitler’s bicycle. A rusty bicycle once hung on a pole with a sign that read “Hitler’s Bike (1934).” However, the bike was not authentic and was put up by a prankster. The bike was stolen and as of May 29, 2005  and the bike has not been found.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Gays, IL

Handless Man

Originally uploaded by croz1007

Sandusky, Ohio

40 feet tall

New Orleans Square Art Colony
Originally uploaded to the Wacko Nation Flickr Group  by kelly-bell. Thanks!

For over 50 years, painters and portrait artists have been working and displaying their artwork on the iron fence that encloses Jackson Square. This somewhat bohemian colony of artists was not a contrived creation, but rather a spontaneous outgrowth of an ever increasing tourist economy in the French Quarter following World War II. Actually, there are some records and news articles that suggest that artists occasionally sold their work from the fence as far back as the late 1800’s.

The present art colony started small, in Pirate Alley, and, by the mid 1950’s, had already occupied the sidewalk that defined the perimeter of Jackson Square. At it’s peak, Jackson Square numbered over 300 artists, occupying every section of fence, much of Pirate Alley and the Cathedral fence on Royal Street.

From: AtNewOrleans.com