Road Trip...help us out!

So....starting tomorrow morning, I'm taking a road trip with a couple of friends cross country, where one of them is going to med school in New York. I've already consulted my copy of Tiki Road Trip, and unfortunately there's not too much Tiki along the route we're taking. Just wondering if anyone knew of any cool places to check out along the way...we will be stopping in Las Vegas NV, Roswell NM, Oklahoma City OK, St. Louis MI, Columbus OH, Altoona PA, and will end up in Mount Vernon NY, where we'll be for about 4 days before we fly home. Looking for places to eat, oddities we should check out (giant balls of twine, roadside dinosaurs, etc. etc.), just the weird and retro stuff that make this country great. Thanks in advance!

jason this is a great place to look to get ideas on quirky places to visit.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/

:lol: Just hitched and hitting the road? :lol:

Haha...pretty much. Dannelle is going to meet us in St. Louie for the last leg of the trip, so we'll get a week long mini honeymoon. Thanks for the link Liz!

Too bad the Coral Court isn't still around in St Louis.
http://www.coralcourt.com/main.html
Check out the Ted Drewes ice cream stand, it's an institution in StL.
http://www.teddrewes.com/Drewes.asp
If you swing a little north in the WV panhandle you can hit the Fiestaware factory in Chester.
http://www.fiestafactorydirect.com/
and the World's Largest Teapot!
Then coming towards Pittsburgh you could check out Meadowcroft Rockshelter, the oldest site of human habitation in North America!
http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/meadowcroft.aspx
or go more southern to Canonsburg, the City of Antiques (there's a great mid-century store) and see the Perry Como statue.

Pittsburgh has tiki! The Tiki Lounge! http://www.tikilounge.biz but I'd say go during the week, weekends are top40 dance, hip hop (I know, I know!)

Then ride the inclines (funicular) to one of the best views in the US on Mount Washington, also, St Anthony's has the largest collection of religious relics outside of the Vatican, and Trundle Manor is a new steampunk roadside attraction/cabinet of curiosities. Heading east there's Monroeville Mall where Dawn of the Dead was filmed (not much to see, but I hear there's a "museum" to it in one of the toy stores), in Indiana PA there's a Jimmy Stewart statue and museum, in Johnstown there's the World's Steepest Vehicular Inclined Plane http://www.inclinedplane.com/ in Altoona there's the oldest roller coaster in America http://www.lakemontparkfun.com/, and Horseshoe curve.
If you stay on a more southern route there's Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (a most for everyone at some point) as well as his Kentuck Knob and Polymath Park (one of a handful of Wright buildings you can spend the night in...for a price) also some Muffler men and shaped buildings, all on Roadside America.
hope that gives ya some ideas for this neck of the woods.

Make a stop at these places if you see them. I don't think there are any in California

Waffle House
Stuckeys

I'm sure some of the NYC people can give you some guidance while your in Mt. Vernon.

KK