Eccentric Accents --- Eccentric Places from around the US

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Here you will find some interesting and unique places and things that I have come across during my travels.

I will add more Eccentric Places as I come across them. You can add to our eccentric places page too! Just email our webmaster a picture and brief description of what we are looking at. Include your name if you want credit for the photo

This photo of an albino deer was taken at a roadside museum/tradingpost/souvenier stand.
After some crack investigating by our very own webmaster, Sir Richard, it was discoverd that this deer is actualy a piebald deer and not albino! However we thought it was cool so we put this photo up anyway.

I met Lenny the worlds only life-size chocolate moose at Len Libby handmade candies on route one Scarborough Maine.
They tell me hes 1,700 pounds of the worlds finest chocolate,that is one eccentric piece of candy and worth the trip to see.

This photo was taken at L L Bean flagship store in Freeport Maine.
Over 3 million people visit this store each year and its open 24 hours a day 365 days a year!
I wonder if thats Paul Bunyon's shoe well thats another trip.

The Burying Point, Salem Mass' oldest cemetery, dates from 1637 and contains the remains and gravemarkers of many prominent people in Salem's history. Some of Hawthorne's early ancestors are buried here, as well as individuals associated with the witchcraft episode and China trade period.

The Salem Witch Museum brings you there, back to Salem 1692. Visitors are given a dramatic history lesson using stage sets with life-size figures, lighting and a narration - an overview of the Witch Trials of 1692.

Borden, Lizzie (1860-1927), accused murderer, who allegedly killed her father and stepmother with an ax in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892. Lizzie was the youngest child born to Andrew and Sarah Borden. Lizzie's father, a banker, was one of the richest people in Fall River. On August 4, 1892, the bloody corpses of Andrew Borden and his wife were found in their home. Lizzie's stepmother had been killed by 19 blows to the head, and her father had died of similar injuries. Within a week, police arrested Lizzie Borden for the crime, but she was acquitted after a sensational murder trial. Lizzie's actions, particularly her burning of a blood-stained dress in the kitchen stove a few days after the murders, led many to believe that she was guilty of murdering her parents.

Little People Village, in Watertown CT, is a strange and varried story. Long ago a man built a house and lived by himself. He then began to hear voices in his head. so what he did was built little houses for the voices that he had heard. He built the throne for one of the voices that had told him to. From all the voices, he went insane and died in his house, and now where his property used to be you can hear little voices and see their homes and the mans'. There are many other tales as well. The legends also include something about his wife, but it's different depending on who you ask. Some say that he killed his wife in the throne. Others say that it was vice-versa. Some even say that his wife was a witch who tortured him and demanded that he build the town.

From Waterbury CT, Holy Land USA is an 18 acre park, a miniature Jerusalem. It was one of Connecticut’s biggest tourist attractions in the 1960s and 1970s with 50,000 visitors per year! Holy Land was built in the 1950s by John Baptist Greco (a Waterbury lawyer). The 50' steel cross was once lit up purple for Lent and red for the Christmas season. Holy Land closed in 1984 and the plaster and wire caves and structures are now in tremendous disrepair. Mostly created from plywood, tin siding, chicken wire, cement and fragments of religious statuary.

While on a trek through New Orleans, I heard tales of the swamp monster. I found this display of what is believed to be one of the areas most elusive inhabitants. In 1974 two hunters emerged from a remote area of backwater sloughs with plaster casts of odd tracks that began the tale. The men discovered the footprints near a wild boar that lay with its throat torn open. They also stated that in 1963, they had seen similar tracks after encountering a frightening creature. They described it as seven feet tall, covered with grayish hair, and large amber-colored eyes.

On a trip through the Adirondack mountains, I stopped by Saratoga Springs to find the birthplace of the potato chip. Nestled in a small restaurant, I found this rather plain placket, for such a widely known invention.

While looking for the birth place of the potato chip, I stumbled on this impressive stained glass horse. Thought I might stand next to it to give a sense of perspective.

During a trip through the Lake George area, Alien Encounter Museum and Research Center caught my eye... A sci-fi adventure that held me captive for hours... But no probing, thank goodness.

On the Hawaiian island of Maui, I came across a mighty Banyan tree. Clinging to the ground from a hundred different points, it never losses it's grip on the rich Maui soil.