Tim O’Brien is a photojournalist, publicist, and author who’s covered the odd and unusual throughout his career, from sideshows and carnivals to roller coasters and roadside attractions—and during his time with Ripley’s, just about everything in between.
In this episode of the Weird Historian podcast, you’ll hear about his strange adventures throughout his career, including his travels to capture America’s biggest and weirdest roadside attractions for his new book, Tim O’Brien’s Roadside Pics and Picks: The Huge, the High, the Half-Buried.
These include the Carhenge & Car Art Reserve, as seen above, Boathenge in Easley, Missouri, Salvation Mountain in Niland, California, Billy Tripp’s Mindfield in Brownsville, Tennessee, and giant pink elephants around the country.
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![Artificial nose, 17th-18th century, made of plated metal. Such noses would have been made to replace an original, which may have been congenitally absent or deformed, lost through accident or during combat or due to a degenerative disease, such as syphilis. By Science Museum London / Science and Society Picture Library [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Artificial_nose_17th-18th_century_By-Science-Museum-London-Science-and-Society-Picture-Library-CC-BY-SA-2.0-via-Wikimedia-Commons-235x190.jpg)
