Gross America

Part “Weird U.S.” and part “Roadside America,” GROSSAMERICAoffers families a road trip through the USA that would delight the King of Bad Taste John Waters and the unflappable guys on MTV’s “Jackass.“Sure, you could use your vacation days to take the family to the beach again. Or, you could plan a trip to see brains in jars, frozen dead guys, and visit a factory that makes candy-coated insects. You can-head down to Houston, Texas, and walk inside a 27-foot model of the human intestinal systemvisit a Civil War battlefield embalming dioramahead over to explorers Lewis &Clark’s latrineslook at the world’s largest fungusvisit the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver Citytouch the oldest human turdrecoil from a massive human hairball that grew for seven years before it was surgically removed from the stomach of a 12-year-old girl who suffered from compulsive hair nibblingsee the corroded mandible of a Tyrannosaurus Rex at the nation’s largest natural history museum in Chicagovisit the first funeral home to offer flameless cremation servicesmake a pilgrimage to Chicago to visit America’s last remaining plastic vomit factoryjourney to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to see a dog poop-fueled streetlamptravel to Nederland, Colorado, for “Frozen Dead Guy Days,” an annual celebration of at-home cryogenics experimentsspend some time among the preserved human brains at Philadelphia’s Mutter Museumtake in the acclaimed cockroach dioramas of Plano, TexasGross America is a coast-to-coast catalog of the most grandly gross science experiments, beautifully bizarre art, and delightfully disgusting historical sites that America has to offer. Part travel atlas, part trivia guide, Gross America presents these United States as you’ve never seen them before-weird, wonderful, strange, and totally, utterly gross.