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		<title>Nude For Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re constantly coming across reports of public protest over nude statuary. Townships are always abuzz over art au natural. Three recent undressed uproars demonstrate that demands for modesty are often directed at the least sexy of sculptures.

	
	No Longer Controversial: David, Sioux Falls, SD.
Take &#8220;Journey To The New&#8221; in Delray Beach, Florida. This serious and spindly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GPS Nav: Turning Map Hands Into Useless Flippers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn't long ago that a Roadside road trip meant dozens of paper maps and pages of printed-out, turn-by-turn directions. The job of map-reader on any given day was as vital as it was thankless.]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Still Standing: Living Statues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherever and whenever large flocks of tourists congregate in urban settings you are also likely to find those popular purveyors of motionless entertainment known as “living statues.”]]></description>
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		<title>Nature Calls: Talking Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these ecologically sensitive times, maybe we all should start listening to the trees. Unfortunately, real trees have a hard time communicating clearly with their limited vocabulary and poor diction.]]></description>
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		<title>Light Headed: Laserium</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attraction News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a tale of survival and resurrection. Of inspiration and beauty. Of teenagers discovering what awesomeness really means, perhaps with the help of a certain sweet-smelling herb. It is the story of the rebirth of…Laserium!
Yes, that staple of coming-of-age psychedelia has found a permanent home in the heart of Hollywood; Laserium CyberTheater has opened at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industrial Strength Sights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A factory closing is a sad affair: breadwinners are left reeling, communities go shrinking, and the sight of an empty architectural behemoth hovering over the landscape reminds us daily of the less lovely side of capitalism.]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Magnetism: Roadside Poll Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent online poll, RoadsideAmerica.com asked site visitors:

"Which taxidermy wonder would you travel farthest to see?"

We couldn't present America's full breadth of stuffed dead exhibits, so we chose a tiny sampling of more common oddities, and a few true rarities.]]></description>
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		<title>Furniture Fuels Roadside Funtasms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've long been impressed with Jordan's Furniture stores in Massachusetts, which offer mad mixes of water shows and Mardi Gras and thrill rides in places that sell, basically, furniture. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mind Your Mini-Golf</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Hall of Science in Queens, New York, recently launched a new astro-attraction: Rocket Park Mini Golf, a valiant educational effort that attempts to teach kids about physics through the joy of amateur putting (And we don’t mean discovering how time seems to stretch out into infinity when stuck behind slowpokes trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn Off, Tune In, Drop By</title>
		<link>http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/turn-off-tune-in-drop-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luckenbach, Texas was never a bustling metropolis. In 1904, its population peaked at a far-from-astounding 492. And by the 1960’s, Luckenbach was three citizens short of being a complete ghost town. Then, in 1970, a group of friends (Hondo Crouch, Guich Koock, and the normal-named Kathy Morgan) bought the entire kit and kaboodle for $30,000 [...]]]></description>
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