poetry Lovely little roadside poems popping up around the US Jason Weisberger

vanlife This Scottish traveler turned a van named Ernie into a storytelling machine Jason Weisberger

politics Mortgage rates up, making housing more expensive Rob Beschizza

travel See the giant plywood cowboys of "Cowboy Ruckus" in New Mexico Popkin

museum Wild oddities at Marsh's Free Museum in Long Beach, Washington Popkin

travel The Fish Inn: A quirky roadside attraction in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, with a fish-shaped design and unique traditions Popkin

Oklahoma Oklahoma City's blue whale car wash was lost to time Popkin

Happy Mutants We found the most delightfully unhinged restaurant in the southwest Jennifer Sandlin

arizona "Moth effect" may distract drivers in deadly dust storms Jennifer Sandlin

Bird dropped severed human hand into schoolyard Allan Rose Hill

National register of historic places! Visit a historic shell-shaped Shell gas station in Winston-Salem, NC Popkin

History The Teapot Dome service station is a quirky reminder of scandal Popkin

books RIP Tom Robbins, author of "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" Ellsworth Toohey

Funny Is this America's last Leaning Tower of Pizza? Popkin

Delightful Creatures Python nor sovereign citizen theories help this man evade the police Jason Weisberger

law enforcement 7 tips to outsmart cops when you get pulled over Ellsworth Toohey

Cryptozoology Michigan cops post photo of roadside Bigfoot encounter Allan Rose Hill

house Rock in the House: house with embedded boulder just $2 a tour in Wisconsin Popkin

bizarre competitions Wolfing down scalding hot biscuits and other weird contests from 1897 Mark Frauenfelder

politics Four years of MAGA surrealism and horror in one book: "It's the Great Storm, Tom the Dancing Bug!" comics by Ruben Bolling Boing Boing