App Profile: Roadside Presidents

RoadsideAmerica.com's offbeat experts uncover obscure Presidential sights and must-see shrines, museums, statues, and provide POTUS profiles and amusing trivia. They make it easy to find the pile of rocks shaped like Nixon's head, or the wax gallery of unelected presidents. For iPhone and iPad.

"This app from the quirky online travel guide Roadside America makes it easy to find over 1,300 POTUS-related attractions…" (Wall St. Journal)

Plan your own trail to the chiefs, with maps, directions, hours, phone numbers and helpful visitor tips:

- Birthplaces, graves, museums, libraries, monuments
- Waypoints to History: slept-here, ate-here, dropped dead-here locations
- Tourist attractions and unique fan tributes
- Landmarks of First Ladies, VPs, peculiar siblings, White House pets, and presidential also-rans and wannabes
- Assassins, scandal and conspiracy sites - from Ford's Theatre to Teapot Dome
- Museums with that one special president artifact - a lock of precious hair, or a funeral wagon

Profiles - From George Washington to Joe Biden, read about triumphs and fumbles of each president, and how they aided or endangered your inalienable Right to Road Trips!

Arcana - Become a presidential know-it-all, armed with amusing trivia: Who had the biggest feet? Who drank poisoned milk and died? Did America really have a One Day President?

Easy-to-use features:

- Save favorites and a "Been There" list
- View nearby attractions on a map
- See what attractions are between two cities or addresses
- Submit photos and tips about presidential landmarks you've visited for our editors to consider adding
- Plot your next stop using Maps (or popular map apps)

Note: Presidential landmarks are more numerous in the East and Midwest, though every state has something‚ and the app continues to add new presidential places, with your help!