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Collegeville, PA, United States, 06/29/2008 - New travel website highlights destinations not usually covered in traditional travel guides, seeks personal stories and photos from contributors.
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My Undiscovered America website focuses on out-of-the-ordinary travel sites throughout the US
A new travel website, which seeks to familiarize Americans with the many unusual and unsung attractions not typically covered by travels books and magazines, was unveiled this week.
The site, My Undiscovered America, is “our way of paying tribute to the many ‘roads less traveled’ that can be found in every corner of the United States,” explained Ed Cohen, site editor.
“If you’re the type of person who prefers a dusty country road to Interstate 95, My Undiscovered America is the website for you,” he pointed out. “You won't find the likes of Disneyworld, the bright lights of Broadway or the slots of Las Vegas here. What you will find are sights and sites that most travelers don't read about in Frommer's. Some of the places we feature are so obscure you'll have trouble finding them on a road map. But in every case, we hope you'll come away with a conviction that just about anywhere in America, there's something out-of-the-ordinary worth seeing.”
The website is divided into three major sections, Cohen explained, “My Favorite Places,” “My Favorite Trips” and “My Favorite Websites,” which is a compendium of websites of interest to travelers. To launch the site, “we asked our editors to contribute their own favorites. What they came up with illustrate perfectly what we are striving for”. For example, you’ll read about:
- The still-standing 200-year-old stone bridge, built with funds raised by a special lottery
- The tradition of pitching pennies onto Ben Franklin’s gravesite for good luck
- The tiny hotel in central New Jersey that inspired a classic Broadway ballad
- The “stargazer’s stone” in Eastern Pennsylvania which became the starting point for the famed Mason-Dixon Line
- The “let-it-all-hang-out” seaside parade of clowns and basset hounds that commemorates the day each year when our earnings finally become ours instead of the Federal government’s
- The little known gravesite of the Union general who repulsed Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg and
- The stately apartment house in upper Manhattan which figures prominently in a time-travel cult favorite and where Beatle John Lennon lost his life to an assassin’s bullet.
“We are inviting site visitors to submit their own articles and photos about places and trips which they considered out-of-the-ordinary,” said Cohen. “Their articles will be posted in the appropriate sections and brief biographies of the writers will appear in a section called ‘Our Contributors’.”
Interested contributors are invited to visit the website for article submission information and instructions or Email the Editor at My UndiscoveredAmerica.
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