While planning another trip, I stumbled onto Roadside America. It’s tagline reads Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions. Of course San Diego has a few entries. Some of the highlights include:
- World’s Largest Lemon (Lemon Grove)
- Shoe Tree on Frisbee Course (Balboa Park)
- Gravity Hill (La Jolla)
- Muffler Man (Escondido)
Can you think of any other odd San Diego attractions that they missed?
While not exactly San Diego, there’s a few places not too far away.
There’s that rock tower/castle that you see on the way back from Imperial Valley on the 8E. I forget what it’s called.
Also, on the way to Borrego Springs, when you go through the Santa Ysabel way, there’s a weird abandoned looking house just before you take the winding mountain road down. In front of this house, on the roadside, is something called Saint Maurice’s Art Gallery. It’s a small village of home made houses, figurines and vehicles in a state of array. It looks occasionally tended to, and my guess would be someone does live on the property. Very neat!
Bart - It is the Desert View Tower. Actually, they have a page on it Desert View Tower on Roadside America.
There used to be that cool spaceship saucer house in Hillcrest, but its gone now
what about the Boat houses in Encinitas…. oh, nevermind, they are listed in Roadside America online. I can say I toured one when it was for rent. Not sure I could live there, they sort of slope and sway, but not in a isn’t-this-nice-I’m-on-the-ocean sort of sway, but rather a this-doesn’t-feel-safe sort of sway…..