This resort community is located on Absecon Island and is literally surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. It also enjoys a close proximity to Philadelphia, which makes it a great place to escape to for a weekend, or longer if so desired. Essentially, a weekend won’t be enough time to discover all that Atlantic City has to offer, but if that is all the time you have to spare, be sure to at least check out these amazing attractions.

1. Atlantic City Boardwalk

The local boardwalk is essentially the backbone of this seaside resort city. The walk was originally built in 1870 with an aim to reduce the amount of sand visitors dredged into the seaside motels. Today it provides access to hotels, resorts, shops, casinos, and more, making it the most visited part of the city. Several piers stem out from the actual board walk and offer interesting attractions and activities that are suitable for the entire family.

The boardwalk spans for a total or 4.12 miles, making it one of the world’s largest board walks. The walk allows you to enjoy the sights and sounds of Atlantic City, while at the same time permitting you to stretch your legs and breathe in the fresh sea breeze.

2. Steel Pier

Although there are many piers jutting out of the boardwalk, one in particular stands out to tourists. Home to a world class amusement park, Steel Pier offers fun filled thrills for the entire family. While at Steel Pier you can choose to visit the many amusement games or just take a stroll along the pier, taking in the sights and sounds.

However, if you have brought the kids with you, they won’t want to miss out on all the fun and exciting attractions of the amusement park. Popular rides and attractions here include the Crazy Mouse Coaster, Sea Dragon, Ferris wheel, helicopter rides and the Grand Prix Go Karts. The live thrill shows are also extremely popular and will truly amaze and excite you.

3. Atlantic City Historical Museum

To experience the culturally diverse and exciting history of Atlantic City, be sure to pay a visit to the local historical museum. This stunning masterpiece of modern history is home to vintage photographs, local artifacts and a highly regarded video presentation. The permanent exhibition here is entitled “Atlantic City, Playground of the Nation” and displays artifacts, costumes, photographs, song sheets, postcards, souvenirs, and an array of Miss America memorabilia.

This museum is located on the Garden Pier, just off the boardwalk and free admission and car parking make it an even greater place to visit. This is definitely a must-see if local history and culture is what you are after.

4. Atlantic City Aquarium

The fact that Atlantic City is nestled right on the shores of the ocean is an indicator of the importance of marine life here. This is most evident at the Atlantic City Aquarium, which is home to a diverse range of marine species. This aquarium offers something for kids of all ages and is home to over 18 aquarium tanks.

Sea creatures indigenous to New Jersey waters and the Mid-Atlantic region have found a pleasant home here. Popular exhibits to visit include the Live Water Feeding Show, Clownfish and Anemones, Fish of the Amazon River, Fish of the Indo-Pacific, Live Coral or the Loggerhead Sea Turtles. These creatures burst into a colorful display of nature and are truly worth the visit.

5. IMAX Theater at Tropicana

No holiday is complete without a visit to the theatre, and when it comes to theaters in this city, you really can’t go past the IMAX Theater at Tropicana. The Quarter here is home to the city’s first and only IMAX theater, which is a massive five and a half story screen with enough surround sound to transport you into another world.

The great thing about this theater is that you can see blockbuster Hollywood films as well as IMAX 3D documentary releases. This is an experience that will make you feel like you are in the film and is guaranteed to be one the kids never forget.

Atlantic City is a must-see city is you are after resort, seaside living and want to experience adventure, fun and surprises around every corner. So if this sounds like the kind of holiday you are after, why not start planning your next family adventure to no other than Atlantic City.

Christine Barton

Christine Barton is a blogger and Content Writer for Jurnii Car Rentals, America’s new travel focused online rental car company. He writes frequently for the Jurnii USA Car Rental, blog and enjoys travel in the U.S and abroad.

1. Drive-Thru Strip Club: Congruity, Pennsylvania

American’s love their cars and no where is that more evident than the spread of its drive thru culture. America’s got drive thru restaurants, drive thru banks, drive thru wedding chapels, heck they’ve even got drive thru trees. The next logical step in their drive thru evolution then, could be none other than the drive thru strip club.

For $10 a minute, you can pull your vehicle up to the diamond shaped peephole and watch the action unfold inside. For faster service, remember to have your payment ready at the window.

If you want to see things get really interesting, try ordering a private dance. And trust us, you don’t want fries with that.

Drive Thru Strip Club

2. Insane Fishpond: Linesville, Pennsylvania

Now you don’t have to be Jesus to walk across water. The volume of fish flapping about in this Pennsylvania spillway is so heavy; you could practically walk across their bobbing heads to the other side.

Some 400,000 tourists every year stop by to feed the fish modern marine miracle, dishing out some 2.4 lbs of bread each to the now carb addicted carp. In fact, the only Pennsylvania attraction that sees more visitors each year is the Liberty Bell.

While no human has yet to complete the fish head water crossing, the spillway has deservedly earned the nickname, “the place where the ducks walk on the fish”. And we say with a little balance, speed and Devine intervention you can make the crossing too. Hallelujah!

3. Big Mac Museum: North Huntington, Pennsylvania

Pay homage to the world’s favourite double burger, just miles from the site of its original birthplace. Gawk at the original Big Mac sauce gun, observe the evolution of the burgers packaging through history, and admire the colourful wallpaper adorned with the words of the legendary Big Mac mantra (Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun). It’s truly some of Ronald’s greatest work.

4. Mutter Museum: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Do grotesquely enlarged colons turn you on? Does the site of Grover Cleveland’s facial tumour get you hot? Do thoughts of John Wilkes Booth’s thorax drive you wild? Did you answer yes to any of the above? Then this place is just your fix.

The mutter museum features one of the world’s largest collections of medical monstrosities, ranging from twins joined at the liver, humans turned into soap and downright jaw dropping cases of testicular elephantitis. And here you are complaining about your headache.

5. Worlds Largest Hamburger Joint: Clearfield, Pennsylvania

Alas, we’ve finally found the answer to the question, where’s the beef? It’s right here at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in rural Pennsylvania; hundreds and hundreds of pounds of it.

Order up a quarter pounder here and the only thing you’re likely to get in return is a laugh. Here burgers are built by the pound, including patties weighing in at 1, 2, 9 and a heart stopping 11 pounds. Denny’s (not to be confused with “Denny’s”) gargantuan 15LB burger for two (more like for two dozen), includes some 4 Lbs of lettuce, tomatoes cheese onions and sauce. Quadruple bypass sold separately.

Sam Zivot is a blogger and Marketing Manager for Jurnii Car Rentals, America’s new travel focused online rental car company. He writes frequently for the Jurnii USA Car Rental, blog and enjoys travel in the U.S and abroad.

1. World’s Largest Shuffleboard Courts: St Petersburg, Florida

Grab your friend Ethel, give Gertrude a call, heck, clear out all of Florida’s old age homes and bring the gang here to the world’s largest shuffleboard courts. This may not be Florida’s oldest attraction, but it certainly attracts its oldest people.

The Shuffleboard courts here are so large in fact that your Aunt Bertha will have trouble making it to the other side without her angina acting up. Don’t let her leave home without her meds.

Once your aching back has had enough, head inside to the World Shuffleboard Hall Of Fame and pay your respects to Shuffleboard Legends Mae Hall and Lucy Perkins. Cooperstown has nothing on these guys.

2. Las Margaritas Grill: Homosassa Florida

Not since the American Revolution has Patriotism bled as strong as it does inside the doors of Las Margaritas Grill. On Friday and Saturday nights, patrons are handed American flags, and asked to take part in the singing of God Bless America, I’m Proud To Be An American, God Bless USA and the National Anthem. Those refusing to stand and sing (not to mention those who partake in flag burning) are promptly asked to hit the road.

Loyalists to the British crown, the French, Osama Bin Laden, we suggest you check yourselves at the door.

las margaritas hormossa springs

3. Mini Golf With Live Gators: Sarasota, Florida

Windmills, castles and clown noses no longer doing it for you on the mini-golf course? Try throwing a few live gators to the mix. The threat of losing your ball (or your hand) to pack of deadly 10 foot gators will have you putting with laser like precision.

After your round, you can even purchase a pile of raw meat to feed to the resident reptiles. Or alternatively, just jump in and feed them for no charge.

4. French Cafe Themed McDonalds: Orlando, Florida

Here a Big Mac becomes Le Big Mac, and mere French fries become Les French Fries. In fact, if not for the McDonald’s arch standing out front, you’d think you’d walked straight into a Parisian cafe.

Along with Le Big Mac and other classic McDonald’s favourites, you’ll also find such upscale fare as, blackened grouper, Portobello eggplant, Italian amaretto spumoni and of course, wine. We recommend the 1997 Ronald McDonald Red; a fine, fine year.

5. Boat n’ Trailer Racing: Bithlo. Florida

For those who have yet to achieve their NASCAR Dream, Boat n’ Trailer racing is their chance to prove their worth. Brave men and women hitch a boat to their vehicle, put the pedal down, and unleash a pile of carnage in their wake.

Should the above automotive violence still leave more to be desired, stick around for school bus racing, where you’ll see these massive yellow machines whisk around the track doing deft defying figure 8s. Hail to the bus driver indeed.

-Sam

Sam Zivot is a blogger and Marketing Manager for Jurnii Car Rentals, America’s new travel focused online rental car company. He writes frequently for the Jurnii USA Car Rental, blog and enjoys travel in the U.S and abroad.

1. The Black Hole: Atomic Surplus Store & Museum: Los Alamos New Mexico

Put on your best radioactive suit, and head into the The Black Hole, a 17,000 square foot store and museum brandishing some of the great relics from Los Alamos’ radioactive past.

Need a new fallout Shelter? You’ll find it here. Need a Geiger counter? You’ve come to the right place. Need a kilo of Uranium? Come on in (we’re kidding on that one).

Since 1970, store owner and former nuclear machinist “Atomic” Ed Grothus has been collecting and dealing non radioactive nuclear waste to the masses. His efforts to preserve Los Alamos’ nuclear history have been so profound in fact, that his story was made into an award winning documentary in 2002.

2. Smokey The Bear Grave and Museum: Capitan, New Mexico

Once just an average bear, Smokey likely never envisioned becoming a national advertising icon. After being rescued from a forest fire in the mid 1950′s, Smokey took off to Washington, giving 20 years of service to the United States Forest Service before his death in 1976.

Today you can pay your respects to Smokey in his final resting place, a simple grave-site lying in the small town of Capitan, New Mexico.

If the emotion of it all leaves you feeling famished, stop in the Smokey Bear Restaurant, and order up a famous Smokey The Bear Burger (we checked, and the meat contains no parts of Smokey or any other bear). Just be sure to smother it in plenty of ketchup because; only you can prevent bland burgers.

3. Lightning Field – Quemado, New Mexico

Take 400 stainless steal polls, arrange them in a one mile grid, wait for lightning to strike, and zap, you’ve got mother nature’s answer to the laser show.

For $250, you can spend an electric night in a 3-Bedroom cabin, watching lightning violently batter into the metal rods before it. You better hope there’s a storm in the forecast though, as there’s no money back guarantee if lightning fails to strike.

4. Roswell New Mexico

It wouldn’t be a trip to New Mexico, without experiencing the extra terrestrial. Roswell’s downtown strip features no less than a dozen otherworldly attractions. Even the local Walmart and Arby’s have signs exclaiming, “Aliens Welcome”

For a close encounter of your own, head to the International UFO and Research Centre and learn the mysteries behind alien encounters, crop circles, and the infamous UFO crash of 1947.

Next, point your tractor beam at the Area 51 museum and pose for pictures with E.T in the over 20 handmade alien scenes. For the truly ambitious, there’s even alien autopsy to perform. Bring your gloves, it could get messy.

5. Sparky’s Burgers, BBQ and Espresso: Hatch, New Mexico

Only in America could a restaurant serve up the odd combination of burgers, BBQ and espresso and pull it off with such flawless perfection. Drop in for a meal at Sparky’s and be blown away by how beautifully a fresh ground java cuts through the barbecued goodness of a pulled pork sandwhich.

Besides the unlikely coupling of cuisines, you’ll also find enough kitschy decor to fill a museum. A giant Uncle Sam, a 10 foot tall A&W momma, and an army of scrap metal robots are just some of the many off-beat marvels eagerly awaiting your visit.

- Sam

Sam Zivot is a blogger and Marketing Manager for Jurnii Car Rentals, America’s new travel focused online rental car company. He writes frequently for the Jurnii USA Car Rental, blog and enjoys travel in the U.S and abroad.

As always America, your penchant for the strange, failed to let us down.

1.World’s Largest Watermelon: Green River, Utah

For years, several U.S towns and cities have battled for the honour of being named “America’s Watermelon Capital (Green River, Utah being amongst the foremost contenders). While this prestigious title is in constant dispute, there’s no disputing that Green River is home to the World’s Largest Watermelon (eatable or otherwise).

This massive fruit on wheels, originally built in celebration of Green River’s “Watermelon Days Festival” spans a full 25 feet from end to end. Once a fully motorized vehicle, 50 years on the road have left it over ripe and unable to start.

That said, it remains an important town attraction, and as you’ll discover, it’s nothing to spit (seeds) at.

2. The Bingham Canyon Mine: Copperton, Utah

Forget the Grand Canyon; this is truly America’s best great open space.

Once a sizeable mountain, copper mining has transformed the landscape into an epically large trench, half a mile deep and 2.5 miles wide. And with 250,000 tons of rock being unearthed daily, it’s only getting bigger.

The Bingham crater is so massive in fact that a stadium of its size could hold a staggering, 9 million people. That’s three times the population of Utah!

3. Landlocked Lighthouse: Cedar City, Utah

No sailor has ever been guided, nor any sea disaster averted by the aid of this Cedar City lighthouse. Ironically this landlocked lighthouse was built in celebration of Utah’s non existent maritime location.

Sure you may not be able to see its light beaming from the mighty Pacific or the powerful Atlantic, but you can see it free and clear from Interstate 15.

4. Hildale, Utah

Not so much an attraction as it is a strange experience, a drive through Hildale Utah will take you back to a different era.

As the headquarters of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, Hildale is home to one of America’s best known polygamous communities. In fact, some of the town’s prominent church members may have up to 12 wives or more. Impressive, given the fact that most of us can’t even handle one.

While exploring the town may be a fascinating anthropological experience, outsiders are not always welcome. For that reason, we recommend you don’t bring your wifes (err…wife) and kids along.

5. Undisputed World’s Largest Fishing Fly: Logan, Utah

Weighing 3 tons, and measuring 32 feet long, Logan’s behemoth fishing fly on steroids is definitely not something you’d want buzzing over you at night.

Erected in celebration of the town’s fly fishing heritage, we somehow hoped that we could use the giant fly, to catch some supersized fish. Alas, we were disappointed, coming back to shore with only with a pair of two pounders.

-Sam

Sam Zivot is a blogger and Marketing Manager for Jurnii Car Rentals, America’s new travel focused online rental car company. He writes frequently for the Jurnii USA Car Rental, blog and enjoys travel in the U.S and abroad.

1.Buckskin Joe’s Live Hangings: Cannon City, Colorado

The death penalty has long been a fixture of American justice, and here you can witness a live hanging, then snap a photo of the unfortunate victim as he swings lifelessly from his noose. The perfect post card to send home to mom.

If your jaw just dropped in horror, relax, the hangings are merely the dramatic climax of a 3- minute Wild West show, showing us how justice was once restored in the frontier.

If you didn’t get the full essence of the public execution experience the first time around, you can always hang around for another. The shows run every 30 minutes.

2. Junkrassic Park: Cheraw, Colorado

Behold, a land where objects fashioned out of recycled metal farm implements roam free. It may not sound like a premise for a blockbuster movie, but it’s none the less a place worth digging in to.

Fortunate park visitors will encounter a colouful collection of twisted metal species including re-creations of Fidel Castro, John Wayne and Colorado football legend John Elway.

Finish off your tour by sharing a romantic kiss in front of the 40 foot Eiffel Tower replica. Bring along a baguette and a bottle of wine, and you’ll think its the real thing.

3. Two Floor Outhouse: Crested Bute, Colorado

When you gotta go, you gotta go to Crested Bute’s split level outhouse; one bathroom on the bottom floor and one on the top.

Engineered to weather the heavy snowfalls of the Colorado winter, this local landmark has stood tall since the mid 1800′s, a relic of the town’s contributions to toilet innovation.

While you are free to wonder the bathroom’s 1st and 2nd floors, we recommend you stay out of the basement.

4. Buckhorn Exchange Restaurant: Denver, Colorado

Come on down to Denver’s Buckhorn Restaurant and dine with friends, family and over 500 dead animals. While the stuffed bison, elk, and pheasants can’t actually talk to you, they will make for an evening of great conversation.

The true novelty is that just about anything you see stuck to the wall, can be ordered for dinner. Just imagine biting into a juicy buffalo burger while waving to his stuffed cousin above. “Hi Buffalo Bill, your cousins delicious!”

5. Colorado’s “Cannibal Trail”: Denver, Colorado

Meet Alfred Packer, a former mining prospector and cannibal, with a taste for gold and human flesh. While he passed away over 100 years ago, his unsavory legacy remains fresh.

Accused of killing and eating at least five fellow humans, several Colorado attractions now pay homage to Packer along the Cannibal trail; including museums, a grave site and yes even a cafe (though human was yet on the menu).

After being acquitted of his alleged crimes because of a technicality, Packer ironically became a vegetarian. Proof positive of the human ability to change.

-Sam

Sam Zivot is a blogger and Marketing Manager for Jurnii Car Rentals, America’s new travel focused online rental car company. He writes frequently for the Jurnii USA Car Rental, blog and enjoys travel in the U.S and abroad.

1. Glore Psychiatric Museum: St Joseph, Missouri

Located within the former State Lunatic Asylum, this ode to psychosis is an attraction you’d be crazy to miss. While you won’t have the pleasure of meeting nurse Ratchet, you will be exposed to a complete history of medical devices as loony as the people they were used on.

Begin your session with a run aboard the giant human hamster wheel then take a spin in O’Halloran’s Swing; you’ll be spun around at over 100RPM for the sake of your mental health. It’s a place so fascinating; you’ll be talking to yourself about it for days.

2. Predator World (Benson Interactive Zoo): Branson West, Missouri

The ominous concrete entrance to Predator World is but a sign to the terror that lies within. There are no playful otters, docile giraffes, or cuddly koalas here. No, every animal housed inside is a ferocious cold blooded killer.

Lions, lizards, snakes, scorpions, and sharks, are but a few of the more than 500 animal inmates calling this place home. Watch your step (and your limbs), or you just might end up on the wrong end of the food chain.

3. Mount Rushmore Celebrity Heads: Branson, Missouri

If the faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt have not yet satisfied your desire for stoned faced nostalgia, Branson Missouri’s take on humanoid rock carving just might.

Any disappointment stemming from your Mt. Rushmore encounter will quickly dissipate as you are greeted by the chiseled faces of John Wayne, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Oliver Hardy, who all give new meaning to the term “getting stoned”.

4. Lambert’s Cafe: Sikeston, Missouri

From the outside, Lambert’s Cafe resembles your typical American roadside diner. Step inside however and normalcy quickly tumbles by the wayside.

The moment you take your seat, an aerial assault begins in your direction. No it’s not the military; it’s the cafe staff throwing fresh baked bread rolls at you from as far as 60 feet. Don’t worry though, any wounds you take in battle, will quickly be healed by the deliciousness of the bread.

Thankfully the aerial assault halts after the first course. As you can imagine, having hog jowl or chicken gizzards (both popular menu items) launched in your direction would do considerably more damage.

5. Crapduster Airplane: Carthage, MO

Some planes are born to fly, others engineered to save lives, and still others, like this Carthage Missouri aircraft, are built to seed the land in manure.

While flying a Crapduster may not carry the same prestige as piloting an F-15, its service to the country is invaluable, helping to grow the precious crops that feed us.

Though its engines might not roar with the ferocity of a passing B-52, the payload it drops is certainly just as potent.

-Sam

Sam Zivot is a blogger and Marketing Manager for Jurnii Car Rentals, America’s new travel focused online rental car company. He writes frequently for the Jurnii USA Car Rental, blog and enjoys travel in the U.S and abroad.

1. Museum Of Clean: Pocatello, Idaho

Neat freaks rejoice. The soon to open 75,000 square foot Museum of Clean is set to bring you over 2000 years of cleaning history; from the broom to the Roomba. Learn the secret history of turpentine, find out why ammonia and bleach don’t mix and bow down to the great bald one (Mr. Clean) himself.

There’s even a specially designed exhibit for children; Kids Cleaning World. Watch the smiles on your child’s faces as they take part in the fully interactive exhibit; washing dishes, making beds, vacuuming and dusting (seriously, we’re not kidding). It’s any mom’s dream come true.

Buy your tickets to the grand opening now; just remember to take your shoes off before you enter.

2. World’s First Nuclear Power Plant Tour: Arco, Idaho

It’s only fitting that the world’s first nuclear power plant should be located in a place that looks like it has recently been stuck a nuclear attack. The eerie, nuclear nothingness of Arco, lends the plant a genuine feel of authenticity.

The self guided nuclear tour, positions you in the epicentre of the plant’s control centre, where you are free to push buttons, adjust nuclear control rods, and cause meltdowns to your hearts content. Homer Simpson would be proud.

Fortunately for the future state of the world and human kind, the plant is no longer operational.

3. Dog Bark Inn: Cottonwood Idaho

Finally a dog you never have to walk, feed or clean up after (though sadly, you can’t exactly play fetch with it either). The massive Beagle, known as Sweet Willy is a full on Bed and Breakfast hotel room, complete with chain saw carved furniture Queen Size bed and enough bone decor to pacify all of canine kind.

The breakfast of eggs, bacon and fruit was fresh and delicious; surprising considering we were expecting puppy chow.

4. Oasis Bordello Museum, Wallace Idaho

After catching word that the Oasis Bordello was on the brink on an FBI invasion, its occupants fled and never returned. Today, the former Bordello turned Bordello Museum is preserved exactly like it was, the night the girls fled back in 1988.

You’ll enter the museum much like its former clients did the bordello, up a creaky staircase and though a triple bolted door. Once inside you’ll find scantily clad mannequins, J.C Penny catalogues, and other relics of the mundane life of a late 80′s prostitute.

Perhaps strangest of all is the exhibit of the house Madame busy at the helm of her Atari 5200. When not occupied with the burden of work, she apparently enjoyed long passionate nights of Pacman and Space Invaders.

Sam Zivot is a blogger and Marketing Manager for Jurnii Car Rentals, America’s new travel focused online rental car company. He writes frequently for the Jurnii USA Car Rental, blog and enjoys travel in the U.S and abroad.