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The Internet’s Most Questionable Roadside Attractions
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Museum · Osgood Flats, Nevada
Inflatable Brick Museum
A museum dedicated to objects manufactured to look heavy while remaining light: film-prop bricks, foam boulders, balsa anvils, and hollow stage safes. Founded by a theatrical props supplier in a former borax warehouse, it maintains a strict policy that visitors lift everything.
“First described after midnight, never confirmed since.”
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The Bequest Bandstand
You are looking at the only bandstand in Hawaii where the program has not changed since March 1948. Under the will of a sugar-company paymaster, the Kapalima Community Band performs the same eleven songs, in the same order, on the first Sunday of each month, and the bequest still pays for it. You will want to be seated by 6:40.
Michi-no-Eki Memorial Annex
A roadside rest station on Prefectural Route 261 whose principal exhibit is the previous rest station: a 1974 timber rest hut preserved intact, indoors, in a purpose-built annex hall. Travelers may buy pickles at the stand inside the old station on national holidays, or identical pickles at the counter of the new one on any day.
World's Largest Decorative Culvert
A nine-foot-diameter, 66-foot corrugated steel culvert set into a landscaped berm on the highest ground in the township. It connects to no waterway, carries no drainage, and was installed, per the dedication plaque, 'for the look of it.' Visitors may walk through.
The Former Mill Whistle
Mounted on its original steel post beside the roofless boiler house of the former Kapalima Sugar Company, a cast-iron steam whistle last sounded on July 13, 1979, the afternoon the mill's boilers were banked for the final time. A laminated card wired below it, refreshed on what residents describe as an irregular basis by the Kapalima Community Association, still carries a testing schedule — first Monday of the month, 6:45 a.m. — although the whistle has had no steam to sound with since decommissioning, and the schedule is understood locally to record when the test would occur, were there a boiler to supply it. One hook detail needing confirmation: several residents maintain the post was straightened and the bell repainted after a 1994 storm, a repair nowhere reflected in the county's capital improvement records for that fiscal year, and that whoever did the work has never been identified by the Association. Full documentation will likely require a correspondent willing to sit through a monthly meeting.
The Last Hose Tower in Colfax County
The last hose-drying tower in Colfax County stands behind the Prosser Bend fire hall, retired from drying in 1965 and converted into a museum of fire hose that same year, largely because demolishing it was quoted at more than keeping it. It houses hoses from nine decades, displayed vertically, the way the tower prefers.
The Left-Handed Lane
Lane 13 at Tolvana Bowl was laid mirror-image during the dark of a 1961 winter build and sanctioned for left-handed league play in 1967 rather than repoured. It is the only lane of its kind under continuous certification, in an eight-lane house that stays open to 2 a.m. for the freight trade. That is how it was found.
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