Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Indiana

While in Indiana, you might enjoy a visit to:

Mysterious green-eyed bulldog, famous for scaring kids in a local cemetery, is now preserved in a replica mausoleum.

Jesus raises the dead, in groovy black light colors, in the Memorial Chapel of The Grotto of the Holy Mother -- one of many memorable shrines at a Carmelite monastery.

America's hard luck spaceman finally got some recognition, but only after he was dead.

A scaled-down limestone carving of Gus's Gemini spacecraft, not the Mercury spacecraft that he sank, or the Apollo spacecraft that killed him.

Armed policemen would sit in this thing. Built in 1939 to discourage gangsters from driving through town, the Goshen Police Booth is preserved by the Goshen Historical Society.

World's largest collection of James Dean-abilia.

Designed to fling boulders at -- what?

Infamous local lady who was known -- too late -- for murdering her husbands. The exhibit includes the wheelbarrow she used to cart their bodies away.

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