New York Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff Book

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Empire State has to offer!

• Visit the idyllic village whose residents "talk to dead people"; the town where monuments to its most
famous daughter, Lucille Ball, abound; America's one-and-only Kazoo factory and museum; and the
National Buffalo Wing Festival with its "Running of The Chickens"—i.e., people dressed as chickens.

• Learn how abolitionist James Caleb Jackson invented granula, the first cold breakfast cereal; why one

of Rochester's favorite eateries is known as the Home of the Garbage Plate; and why the famous

negative ions of Niagara Falls feel so good.

• Meet the Wonderful Wizard of Chittenango, L. Frank Baum; Panda the Seeing Eye Horse;

Brooklyn's "little green invaders"; and the night watchman at the Fallow Hollow Deer Farm—a

donkey!