{"product_id":"gross-america-9781585429417","title":"Gross America","description":"Part \"Weird U.S.\" and part \"Roadside America,\" GROSS AMERICA offers 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.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSure, 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:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e    \u003cli\u003ehead down to Houston, Texas, and walk inside a 27-foot model of the human intestinal system\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003evisit a Civil War battlefield embalming diorama\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003ehead over to explorers Lewis \u0026amp; Clark's latrines\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003elook at the world's largest fungus\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003evisit the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003etouch the oldest human turd\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003erecoil 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 nibbling\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003esee the corroded mandible of a Tyrannosaurus Rex at the nation's largest natural history museum in Chicago\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003evisit the first funeral home to offer flameless cremation services\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003emake a pilgrimage to Chicago to visit America's last remaining plastic vomit factory\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003ejourney to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to see a dog poop–fueled streetlamp\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003etravel to Nederland, Colorado, for “Frozen Dead Guy Days,” an annual celebration of at-home cryogenics experiments\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003espend some time among the preserved human brains at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum\u003c\/li\u003e    \u003cli\u003etake in the acclaimed cockroach dioramas of Plano, Texas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGross America\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003cb\u003eGross America\u003c\/b\u003e presents these United States as you've never seen them before—weird, wonderful, strange, and totally, utterly gross.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62234997260675,"sku":"9781585429417","price":27.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781585429417.jpg?v=1785355540","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/gross-america-9781585429417","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}