Trivia: 05/28/11: East Coast Tourist Traps.

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

HINT: (1893-1986), Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937.

RANDOM TIDBITS

In Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, you will find the site of the
country's largest collection of life-sized troll sculptures. You can take a "Troll Stroll" down The Trollway, where you'll see these troll sculptures carved into trees along the town's main drag.

The northern Wisconsin town of Mercer is home to the world's largest loon. A 16-foot-tall, 2,000-pound fiberglass water-fowl has stood on the lawn of the chamber of commerce since 1981. (and here i thought they were talking about Jesse Ventura but he lives in Minnesota.)

In Havre de Grace, Maryland, you'll find the Havre de Grace Decoy Museum, home of the country's largest collection of wooden duck decoys, most carved between 1930 and 1990.

The Sock Capital of the World is located in Fort Payne, Alabama. The area's first sock mill, the W.B. Davis Hosiery Mill (1907), is no longer producing socks but still houses an antique mall with artifacts left over from the mill's past.

You can visit Kellogg's Cereal City USA, an interactive museum in Battle Creek, Michigan that pays tribute to cereal and shows its impact on our culture. You can check out a re-creation of a cereal production line, meet your favorite Kellogg's cereal-box celebrities, and purchase a box of cereal with your face on it!

If you're ever in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, you can pay a visit to the Phillips Mushroom Museum. The museum, established in 1972, chronicles three generations of the mushroom-farming Phillips family.

QUOTE: "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

ANSWER: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.