This junior-friendly and densely illustrated tour-book presents history and origin of the weird names of 50 places in the United States that deserve a visit at least once in lifetime. Welcome to the land of surprises // Written in pourquoi tale genre, "Fifty Odd Loci in the United States " completes a series of over 80 travel-diaries from this author: (1) Amalfi Coast, Italy; (2) Amazing Andorra; (3) Amazing Bavaria; (4) Amazing Berlin; (5) Amazing Bhutan; (6) Amazing Cave-Houses; (7) Amazing Domes; (8) Amazing Dublin; (9) Amazing Falkland Islands; (10) Amazing Finland; (11) Amazing Florence; (12) Amazing French Riviera; (13) Amazing Greenland; (14) Amazing Gozo, Malta; (15) Amazing Iceland; (16) Amazing Innsbruck; (17) Amazing Jurmala, Latvia; (18) Amazing Monaco; (19) Amazing Naples; (20) Amazing Palau; (21) Amazing Paris; (22) Amazing Railways; (23) Amazing Salzburg; (24) Amazing Scotland; (25) Amazing Tree Houses; (26) Amazing Vatican; (27) Amazing Vienna; (28) Amazing Windows; (29) Amazing Wyoming; (30) Amazing Z rich; (31) Annecy, France; (32) Austin, Texas; (33) Banff, Alberta; (34) Bruges & Ghent, Belgium; (35) Cabo San Lucas; (36) Celle, Germany; (37) Christmas Island; (38) Cocos Keeling Islands; (39) Colmar, France; (40) Cork & Kenmare, Ireland; (41) Easter Island, Chile; (42) Exquisite Bath, England; (43) Fiji; (44) Granada, Spain; (45) Interlaken and Saint Moritz, Switzerland; (46) Interlaken, Unterseen, St Moritz: Switzerland; (47) Island Saint Helena, British Overseas; (48) Isle of Man; (49) Lafayette, Louisiana; (50) Las Pozas, Xilitla, Mexico; (51) Lecco, Italy; (52) Lille, France; (53) Madeira, Portugal; (54) Montserrat, British West Indies; (55) Mulhouse, France; (56) Myrtle Beach, SC; (57) Nara, Japan; (58) Novo Mesto, Slovenia; (59) Obernai, France; (60) Odd & Outre Places of Washington, DC; (61) Palma de Mallorca, Spain; (62) Poznan, Poland; (63) Saint Lucia; (64) San Marino; (65) Santa Fe, NM; (66) Sardinia, Italy; (67) S lestat, France; (68) Seville, Spain; (69) Sint Maarten: Dutch & French Overseas; (70) Sintra, Portugal; (71) Socotra Island, Yemen; (72) South Georgia & Sandwich Islands, Britain; (73) St John's: Newfoundland-Labrador, Canada; (74) Strasbourg, France; (75) Svalbard, Norway; (76) The Faroe Islands; (77) The Rabbit Island; (78) The Trulli of Alberobello, Italy; (79) Tristan da Cunha; (80) Via Aurelia; (81) Via Claudia Augusta, (82) Via Domitia; (83) Via Fossa, England; and (84) Wissembourg, France.