Weird Illinois

Cordelia suggested we get Weird Illinois (977.3002 T218w), by Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, and, boy, am I glad she did. These guys cover all things creepy, bizarre, odd, and just plain weird. There's the guy who collects partially eaten sandwiches that were bitten into by celebrities. The house with no square corners. America's only Hippie Memorial. The Mad Gasser of Mattoon. And my personal favorite, a sculpture called The Spindle, located in a shopping mall in Berwyn, Illinois. The creator, Dustin Shuler, skewered eight cars on a huge nail in the center of the parking lot: