{"id":1889,"date":"2012-07-03T22:25:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T05:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2012-07-05T21:01:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T04:01:29","slug":"top-alternative-summer-vacation-destinations-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1889","title":{"rendered":"Top Alternative Summer Vacation Destinations For 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s summertime again in America. Its time for kids to take a break from school and adults to take a break from work to head out of town for a week or two and visit top tourist destinations such as Disneyland, Six Flags Amusement Parks and the dozens of beautiful National Parks which dot our great land. But there are many alternative destinations that are off the beaten path which deserve mention and visitation. The BilgeBucket staff has compiled a list of some of these unconventional locales for 2012. So pack up your things&#8230;it&#8217;s time to go road tripping! And no complaining or we\u2019ll turn this article around and go back.\u00a0For more strange attractions, go to <a title=\"Roadside America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roadsideamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roadside America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em><em>The Wisconsin Cheese Repository in Gouda Vista, Wisconsin <\/em> <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em>Dow Chemical\u2019s Pond of Mystery, Piscataway, New Jersey<\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em>Three Story Outhouse, Sticksville, North Dakota <\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em>World\u2019s Largest Zit on Megan Roberts\u2019 forehead, Irvine, California (Oh my God! It\u2019s like so huge!) <\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em>Prostitution Monument, Morningwood, Nevada <\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em>America\u2019s Smelliest Jail, Swelterburg, Mississippi <\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em>Fetid Gulch, Texas: Roach Capital of the World <\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em>Grosse Margine, Michigan: Birthplace of Accounting <\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em>Laxative Museum at Del Weaver\u2019s Twilight City Retirement Community, La Popa, Florida <\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em>Little Kenny Dawson\u2019s Dead Sparrow in a Shoe Box, 723 Adams St, Butler, Illinois <\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em>The Palace of Debilitating Despair, Toledo, Ohio<\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em>Grandpa Wally\u2019s Liquor Bottle Village, Big Little Horn, Montana<\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><\/em><em><em><em>Atom and Eve\u2019s Nuclear Waste Dump and Health Spa, Glowing Sage, Nevada <\/em> <\/em> <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em><em><\/em>House Made of Tampons, Kotex, Florida <\/em> <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em><em><\/em>Hall of Idiots, Morons and Felons, Capitol Building, Washington D.C. <\/em> <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s summertime again in America. Its time for kids to take a break from school and adults to take a break from work to head out of town for a week or two and visit top tourist destinations such as Disneyland, Six Flags Amusement Parks and the dozens of beautiful National Parks which dot our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top Alternative Summer Vacation Destinations For 2012&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[234,602,604,603,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}