Saul Rubin – författare

Welcome to Southern California, where residents take their pooches out for ice cream at the Hydrant Café, attend an annual Blessing of the Cars, and then climb aboard a hearse for a Grave Line Tour to find out how, when, where, and sometimes why Hollywood's finest died. If you're a sports fan, visit the Baseball Reliquary, home to a partially smoked cigar of Babe Ruth, a fragment of skin from the inner left thigh of baseball pioneer Abner Doubleday, and the gold-plated shovel used by Angels owner Gene Autry during groundbreaking ceremonies at Anaheim Stadium in 1964. And don't forget the world's largest champagne glass, still bubbling away at the Lawrence Welk Museum. With this book in hand, readers will be sure to laugh as they learn what lies way off the beaten path in this part of the Golden State.

The definitive collection of San Francisco's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for San Francisco residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.

A guided tour of the United States' strangest institutions and the people who run them. Includes the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, Cockroach Hall of Fame, Liberace Museum, Museum of Menstruation, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Museum of Death, Nut Museum... 50 museums in all! Fascinating!' - USA Today 'Crammed with can-you-beleive-it facts!' - The Washington Times'