America is one of the most diverse countries on the planet. People in California are most assuredly not like people in Texas, yet somehow — they still salute the same flag.
It turns out that all over the great USA, they're several seldom discussed pockets that deserve our attention. Have a look and check out these 15 very weird places in America, according to Reddit.
"Tiny ass town in the middle of west Texas desert that happens to be home to a thriving minimalist art and experimental music scene. Being there feels like having a bad mushroom experience while watching a Wes Anderson film." - Reddit u/Clarinetaphoner
Reddit user SellingWife15gp says that during the day, San Fran is filled with young millennials and carefree hipsters playing hacky-sack in the park. But once the sun goes down, the city becomes a giant horde of homeless people.
"Never seen so many blonde people in my life, the store was eerily quiet and clean and the other shoppers would stop and stare at me and my family. It was like a Stepford Walmart." - Reddit u/orangeunrhymed
While it's true that the bright light city has been known to set souls on fire, it was completely devoid of charm for at least one Redditor. They called the city one giant gimmick, devoid of any culture.
"The first people to find it must have thought they had stumbled onto hell. Erupting geysers, pools of multicolored acid, steam vents spewing sulfur, bubbling mud..."wrote Redditor snuffleupagus7.
When you put it that way, it kind of makes sense.
This small lake town is heavily polluted with mercury, according to Redditor mariojack3. The entire town fogs over often, people are incredibly weird, and it feels like something straight out of a slasher film from the 1980s.
"Salten City on the coast of the Salten lake, in southern California, the lake is an evaporated sea bed with extremely high salt content making it mostly uninhabitable. Fish wash up on the shore by the millions and their is a constant stench of vomit/turkey gravy in the air." - Reddit u/nordinarylove
You can look it up on a map or Google it if you don't believe me, but there is indeed a real town in Michigan named Hell.
All I can say is that I hope the city planner was fired.
"The town itself is a trip. Gigantic mansions, decaying from within. Trees growing through roofs. A storefront abandoned with a houseplant inside, and the spidervines had grown to cover the entire display window. The only people we saw were in cars and the small diner." - Reddit u/nemo_sum
I don't want to go too in-depth explaining what this user means by a "Deliverance vibe." All I will say, for those who haven't seen the film, is that it's a very bad, very disturbing allusion.
"We stayed there four days while exploring the southwest on motorcycles. There was one cafe that served venison and buffalo burgers and the waiter opened our beers with the trigger guard of his pistol." - Reddit u/rebel-lilikoi
Sault Ste. Marie is known, among other things, for the Antlers Restaurant. This dining establishment's claim to fame is that they have over 200 stuffed animal heads hanging on the walls from floor to ceiling.
Creepy AF, is it not?
"It’s on the way to a beautiful part of the world but along the road has an amazing number of arcades - ranging from the cheap and cheesy to the troublingly sleazy." - Reddit u/TankVet
"Anywhere in Illinois south of Chicago. Many of the people speak with a southern accent and have an active disdain for Chicago. It can feel more like southern Alabama that[sic] central Illinois." - Reddit u/DrummaBoy1
"I felt like Big Brother was watching the entire time I was there. We went to Temple Square and were "picked up" by two Mormon women who tried to convert us. We pretended we were lesbians to freak them out." - Reddit u/TravelKats
h/t: Reddit
