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."
Sure, 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:
head down to Houston, Texas, and walk inside a 27-foot model of the human intestinal system
visit a Civil War battlefield embalming diorama
head over to explorers Lewis & Clark's latrines
look at the world's largest fungus
visit the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City
touch the oldest human turd
recoil 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
see the corroded mandible of a Tyrannosaurus Rex at the nation's largest natural history museum in Chicago
visit the first funeral home to offer flameless cremation services
make a pilgrimage to Chicago to visit America's last remaining plastic vomit factory
journey to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to see a dog poop–fueled streetlamp
travel to Nederland, Colorado, for “Frozen Dead Guy Days,” an annual celebration of at-home cryogenics experiments
spend some time among the preserved human brains at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum
take in the acclaimed cockroach dioramas of Plano, Texas
Gross America
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,
presents these United States as you've never seen them before—weird, wonderful, strange, and totally, utterly gross.