Stop no. —
Somewhere strange
Anywhere in the United States
Press the button and OddWay will deal you a real stop: a cryptid museum, a haunted inn, a ship parked on a bluff.
No. II
Take The OddWay
A road-trip guide to the strange: cryptids, folklore, haunted places and roadside oddities along your route.
Give OddWay a route and it finds the detours worth taking: Bigfoot sightings, local legends, haunted hotels, UFO landmarks, odd little museums and giant roadside statues.
I designed and built it end to end, from the brand and the research behind every stop to the web app itself, written in Next.js and TypeScript on Supabase.
How it works
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Pick your route
Give it a start and a finish. OddWay takes care of everything in between, including the two-lane roads you would never have chosen yourself.
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Find strange stops
Filter by what you actually want to see, then check how far each stop pulls you off course before you commit to it.
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Take the OddWay
Add the good ones to your trip, take the directions with you, and go stand in front of the thing.
Seven kinds of strange
Every stop is filed under one of seven categories, so a trip can be all haunted hotels or all giant statues.
- Cryptids
- Creatures people keep reporting and nobody has caught.
- Folklore
- Stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.
- Haunted
- Hotels, theatres, prisons and back roads with a reputation.
- UFOs
- Sighting sites, crash lore and the towns that kept the file open.
- Weird history
- Real events too strange to have made the textbook.
- Museums
- Small, specific collections run by people who care far too much.
- Roadside oddities
- Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Roll a detour
One stop at a time, dealt live from OddWay’s index of nearly 7,000 places. Pick a kind of strange, or leave it to chance.
Advertise on OddWay
OddWay offers advertising for brands that fit the road it maps: roadside attractions, small museums, diners and motels, festivals and haunted tours, and makers of strange things. The people who see it are planning a detour and deciding which stops are worth the trip.
Bookings available now
- Banner placement
- A banner on the home page and stop pages, with a link to your site and a line of text.
- Featured map placement
- A marker on the OddWay map with your name, logo and description.
- Listings are never for sale
- Advertising buys a placement, not a place in the index. Ads that don’t fit the road are turned down.
Next on the road
An events listing: cryptid festivals, haunted houses and seasonal mazes, sortable by distance from wherever you are.
The hard part is the calendar. Most of these events follow a pattern, like the third weekend in September, rather than a fixed date, so each year’s dates will be confirmed by hand. An event listed on the wrong weekend is worse than one not listed at all; nobody should drive four hours to an empty field.
