Web Buzz: Nerdydaytrips.com
Calling all geeks: Here’s a site where you can share, find or discuss all those trips to your local dairy or wig museum.
Name: https://www.nerdydaytrips.com
What it does: Offers up funky pit-stop options for road trips in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and more.
What’s hot: Anyone can add their favorite quirky exhibits and locales to this user-generated map of eccentric museums and pit stops. It’s global, so you could plan a trip to Jaipur, India, around a visit to the Jantar Mantar, a collection of architectural astrological instruments, or travel to Arcachon, France, to see the tallest sand dune in Europe.
What’s not: The site is map-based, so clicking on pins and seeing what’s there gets old quickly. It would be nice if you could navigate the great finds by category (even though there are a lot of science museums) to make trip planning more fun. Otherwise, I might never know that I could rent the same room at the Joshua Tree Inn where Gram Parsons died.
—Jen Leo
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