Just another leisurely airborne Sunday drive through the desert...

SUBMITTED BY: Lisa and John Sarick   LOCATION: Joshua Tree, California (2008)

This airborne antique convertible will never be confused with the Dukes of Hazzard‘s General Lee, but it’s where Lisa and John fell in love: Spin and Margie’s Desert Hideaway, “part boutique Inn, part Mexican hacienda and part artist’s palette.”

Not sure any of those yuppie adjectives are even necessary. Owners Mindy Kaufman and Drew Reese had us at “hello” with their snazzy graphics.

Click on the pic to take a spin with Spin & Margie at the entrance of Joshua Tree National Park.

Yes, graphic design and font choice is our number one criteria in choosing lodging.  But back to Lisa.

“I have been meaning to email this to you for-EVER!” she writes. “This is my husband John and me before we were married back when I would do silly things like this for him. He likes this stuff. He hasn’t gotten me into an Old Tyme Photo yet though!”

Hey Lisa, thanks for thinking of us, and please don’t stop humoring your husband. Tacky Tourist poses are the secret to a long marriage!

(Lisa Sarick is a minister-mom-teacher-counselor from upstate New York who shares her adventures on her Harmony blog)

You can find the Pink Skull Bunny and his gallery of admirers on San Francisco's infamous Haight Street.

SUBMITTED BY: Whitney Matheson    LOCATION: San Francisco, California (2011)

Cute pink rabbit or rodent with a deathwish?   There’s lots of Freudian subtext in what may be the World’s Largest Skull Bunny, the brainchild of artist Jeremy Fish.

What is it about pink rabbits that make us contemplate our own mortality?  Discuss amongst yourselves.

(Whitney Matheson is the Pop Candy columnist for USA Today. You can follow her on Twitter at @popcandy).

May The Force Be With You!

SUBMITTED BY: David Pryke   LOCATION: Carlsbad, California (2010)

We’re usually blown away by the realism captured in most official LEGO sculptures, but the essence of the Evil Empire isn’t looming over LEGOLAND.

Whether they fight with light sabers or their bare hands, our bets are on the mild-mannered guy in the plaid shirt and shorts!

(Photojournalist David Pryke recently captured Darth Vader’s army at the Berlin Wall).

Jelly Belly Reagan: One of several mosaic masterpieces at the California factory tour.

SUBMITTED BY: David C.    LOCATION: Fairfield, California (2010)

Ronald Reagan took on the Soviet Union with a sweet tooth.

We can’t wait to see the Jimmy Carter peanut mosaic, the Bill Clinton “Big Mac” montage and the Barack Obama cigarette sculpture!

(The Jelly Belly Factory Tour also includes jelly bean portraits of Elvis, John Wayne, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and George H.W. Bush!)

The Titanic movie made more than $600 million. Couldn't James Cameron have pitched in with a real movie prop here?

SUBMITTED BY: Monica Brady-Myerov   LOCATION: California

Channeling the spirit of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in public takes a lot of guts, especially if there is an anxious line of 12-year-olds behind you!

(Monica Brady-Myerov is a senior reporter at Boston’s NPR affiliate, WBUR. She recently interviewed the Tacky Tourist Photos curators on the syndicated “Here & Now” show. The segment airs Monday, Aug. 23 — click here for times and stations near you.)

From far away, San Francisco's iconic Painted Ladies look like they are part of a model railroad set

SUBMITTED BY: Nancy & Brian Pearson  LOCATION: San Francisco (2009)

Nancy and Brian thought that this famous row of Victorian San Francisco houses — a.k.a. “Postcard Row” –  looked like a scale model or movie set… It was so perfect that Brian felt compelled to jump in there and play Godzilla.

Nice finesse, guys. As we mentioned in our recent Epcot Globe post, lining the camera up for flawless trick photography is an enormous talent!

San Francisco's Lombard Street, the Most Crooked Street in the World

SUBMITTED BY: Charley Ferrari    LOCATION: San Francisco, California  (2007)

The classic 1966 Batman TV series with Adam West introduced us to the mystique of the canted angle, which conveys chaos and confusion. But what does a reverse canted angle (when the earth is canted and you uncant it) mean?

No, these aren’t the Leaning Houses of Pisa. Nor is it the aftermath of a routine San Francisco earthquake.

Charley’s just having fun with one of the steepest roads in the world, the touristy Lombard Street in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. MMMMMM… Makes us long for some tilted Ghirardelli chocolate!

Check out these other classic photo-ops at Pisa:

* Straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa
* The Leaning Miniskirt of Pisa
* The Leaning Tourist of Pisa
* The Leaning Goldfish of Pisa

(Charley Ferrari, who has the coolest name ever, sits in a tilt-back chair at a prominent economic forecast company. For months, he has been meaning to launch his blog at http://charleyferrari.com/)

Princess Jasmine cuddles with hundreds of guys a day at Disneyland, but she saves her adoring body language for independent filmmakers.

SUBMITTED BY: Brad Jacques    LOCATION: Anaheim, California (2009)

Just how old do you have to be these days to get hired as a Disney princess? Is there at least a rule that you have to have stopped playing with Barbies?

To celebrate his 40th birthday, independent filmmaker Brad Jacques posed for pictures with Princess Ariel, Princess Belle, and Princess Jasmine, who clearly wants to take him on a magic carpet ride. If only he were 12 or 13 again…

(Filmmaker Brad Jacques just completed “Stanley & Norman,” a short thriller about an alcoholic ventriloquist.)

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