RoadsideAmerica.com Attractions and Oddities: First Nationwide GPS Guide to Offbeat U.S. Tourist Attractions

NOVATO, Calif., Feb. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- RoadsideAmerica.com, the online guide to offbeat tourist attractions, announced the launch of RoadsideAmerica.com Attractions and Oddities™, its first GPS guide for travelers to use on Garmin automotive and outdoor devices such as Nuvi™ and Zumo™. Attractions and Oddities puts thousands of eccentric, entertaining, and unique roadside attractions at the user's fingertips. Attractions and Oddities is available for $19.99 at RoadsideAmerica.com for direct download to Garmin devices.

Attractions and Oddities was created by the editors and writers at RoadsideAmerica.com, and is offered by Spot It Out, publisher of premium content as add-ons for navigation systems. Attractions and Oddities, mapped by the Roadside America team, provides a data snapshot of locations, directions, hours and phone numbers for over 5,000 offbeat roadside attractions in all 50 states – Mom and Pop museums, "World's Largest" sights, natural and unnatural mysteries, over-the-top tourist "traps," folk art sites, eccentric monuments, and outlandish statues. The guide also includes thousands of photos.

"Dedicated GPS devices are great for providing precise routing advice and directions," said Doug Kirby, publisher and editor of RoadsideAmerica.com. "Attractions and Oddities makes it easy to take a spontaneous side trip to the bizarre, just by hitting 'Go' to a nearby place listed on your device. And from there, pick another crazy sight…a giant beetle statue leads to a huge rocking chair, which leads to an alligator farm, and by sunset you're standing on a UFO watchtower wondering what happened to your day."

With Attractions and Oddities, users can select to view certain attraction types, such as museums, odd architecture, or "natural" attractions.  "You can quickly plan a weekend statue safari," said RoadsideAmerica.com writer Ken Smith, "or journey along Route 66 to classic roadside attractions such as the Gemini Giant Muffler Man, or the Devil's Rope Museum."

Building on years of their assembled research on worthwhile sights and tips from web site fans, the RoadsideAmerica.com team worked with Spot It Out to make the GPS guide as useful as possible, while maintaining Roadside America's irreverent approach to the nation's curiosities and landmarks.

"For offbeat roadside attractions and oddities, Roadside America is the perfect content partner for Spot It Out," said George Filley, Spot It Out founder and general partner. "They essentially created the category with their books and web site. They're the authorities on hidden treasures along America's back roads, trusted by so many road trip enthusiasts."

For more information or to purchase: RoadsideAmerica.com/gps

About RoadsideAmerica.com

RoadsideAmerica.com (http://www.roadsideamerica.com) is the foremost source for information on unusual tourist attractions in the U.S. Since 1996, the web site has grown to include reports, news, videos and maps for over 9,000 unique sights. The mobile app for iPhone® introduced in 2010 has been a popular download for modern road trippers. RoadsideAmerica.com had its early roots in two popular and pioneering travel books -- Roadside America and The New Roadside America -- by authors Doug Kirby, Ken Smith, Mike Wilkins.

SOURCE RoadsideAmerica.com